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manner, no revolver being leveled at her fore t0C1 head, nor was the younger lady presentof vaThiwithepeoplkeepin- treated in that manner. Little or nomt | profanity was indulged in, and some timepassed, the patience of the waiters out-Bide becoming almoBt exhausted ere the n a | word came that the prisoner was in our I hands._ Hardy spoke a few wordB at the mo-1 eral v *or ' ment of leaving the jail. A handker-chief had been bound over his mouth, * , I but not so tightly as to have preyented I “• al his speaking. While upon, the way to with gh, the bridge there were no cries for ike I mercy, nor was he dragged along. Feel-.ing the rope about hiB neck and realizing J the calibre of the men by his side, he °th kept pace with them, saying nothing un- these til the bridge had been reached, when he I sickN said he hoped that his fate would be a 1 warning to all young men. Then the rope \va8 drawn taut about his neck and one man upon either side of him he was I a go hoisted off to his death. The rope used then wus a three-eights halter rope, not long enough to admit of a hangman's knot ^ ■ i 11 bBing tied, so it had been tied in a coin- has * mon slip knot, which with his weight alrea and falling as he did, it came untied and whatoraisn’sniabynehe dropped into the water below, uponnorth sirio of t.hft hrirlcm. Than fnr a tueyBh.th3tokipeer.fordal j the north side of the bridgo. Then for a illy time all was excitement, fears of hiB 1 c®11 * Che escape being entertained. A few random at ho , shots were lired into the stream, when BUrel y the body was seen close to the first pier I upon the eaBt side of the stream south of bridgo. then the fusilado commenced.A greater portion of the time tho body was not visible, but it finally drifted out I l®tte into the stream and disappeared from Ohio to 1 view entirely, but not until the party was t sure that he was dead. ,'1 When Hardy reached the bridge, five men were with him; of the reBt, the | was i larger portion were guarding the rear, a hisb few having hastened forward to tho wj10r horses. Iinrdy’s hands were not bound 1 until a cry was raised that “wo were pursued,” when the mon in charge of him 1 time stopped and bound him with a piece of to pu ey® I small tarred rope. This alarm was caused an(| by the solitary horseman, who followed hut a short distance. A good rope had been provided to lmng the haplosB yillinn brotl mge 1 with, but’twas lost upon the way to Ifar* form an 1 *un‘ tladthiscircumstancenotoccurrod, |' anJ* Hardy would have been left suspended ,from the bridge, and his body would not r‘8h' at have beon mutilated with any new bnl-’ travt lies. I tet wounds. Th'o sole object waB to hang | Johr him as expeditiously aud as completely as possible. No man present wished to cause him’Unnecessary pain. But that, so to do m thiB emergonoy was our common duty as public-spirited citizens, for the protection of our families, of others | the j and of society, or against such as W. J. no „ Jennings (so called) and others of his | ilk. We are firmly convinced, that there : is In the heart of each and eyery par-,an* ticipator in this affair, a quiet feeling of Btyl* satisfaction over the duty well performed t0 U) I sincerely beliove. RThere was no halt made, either in P going !or returning from jail in front of cr*ti j. C. llardman’B rosidenco, bo the shat- argu toring of a large maple tree at that point I trad must be attributed to other causes.Some other little inaccuracies we will not correct. Your statement was in the “is mam as near the true facts bb could hayo in Ks.oarsFrapiJuAt-flrstlyrd, ;ed 3 The eeks agin at 2 1 thent of will U on nted n in-been gleaned from the circumstances to I TerjStahwhich you were accessible.Sionkd By—One Who Went Through Elkuobn Grove Saturday Morning I 0* ' July 14, and One of the “Lynchers.wotfouiButton, of Marne, came to the city Sat- It inrdnv fcn meat xnmn nrnfop- fid fnnfc mourn 1 mir
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Atlantic Daily Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Mon, Jul 30, 1883
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