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Lnt«r Details of th» Davis Lynching InPerry Conn y—Frightful Tortures toWhirhthe Victim Was Subjected.Later details of the lynching of John Davis, charged with having outraged the daughter of a farmer near Eckerty, Perry county, Indiana, several week ago, have come to light. It has been impossible to get any information from that region relative to the murder of Davis since the occurrence of the tragedy, the lynchers having threatened to kill any person who may testify against them or give any newspaper information. The botov of Davis was, on Sunday last, exhumed. It was horribly mutilated, aad showed that the victim had been tortured by the mob to force him to confess his guilt, and that life was probably extinct when he was j hanged. Two sharpened sticks had been | forced down Davis’s throat, penetrating j the lungs, and he had been tortured in j other ways by the knife, and with fire. I A few days after the lynching the mob went to the cemetery, took up the body j and endeavored to hide some of the| evidences of their cruelty. No trace of the brother and half-brother of John Davis has yet been found. The latter, John Enlow, who had no knowledge whatever of the alleged crime, wa^ also tortured to force him to confess. While the mob were preparing to hang him he succeeded in breaking his bonds, and escaped. j
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Delphi Journal
Delphi, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 14, 1887
Page 7
Full Page
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