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—Yesterday's Daily contained an* * f§account of the lynching of Charles and Olay Davis, near Eckerty, Ind., for the raping and murderous treatment of a little girl named Flanna-gan. Another account, in describ-ing the treatment Charles Davis re-^ • 1 ^ k.ceived at the hands of the lynchers says he was securely strapped to a horse and 'driven back to the spot where he had ravished the girl. He begged for mercy, but his cries were unheeded. He was taken from the''-j ' S *horse, his hands tied behind him,and was given two minutes in which* * ..to pray. He availed himself of the time allowed, and ait the expiration of it a stout sapling' was bent down, a short rope tied to the top, with the other end about. Davis’s neck. ‘ Six\ - S.--.-.-’ ‘ *' *• + .{ * ■ : •men held down the tree, and when it* ■ - * /■ • ^ ,' ■' ’ .'Z # • • 1was released it fiew back into position, and Davis was' jerked twenty feet into the air.' The force threw him over the top of the tree and as the rope brought him short on theother side his neck was broken. The' \ i „ ' . \ - * - - ' . 'body was riddled with bullets by the' * ' 1 . *crowd and was allowed to hang there until the following morning, when it was cut down by his father and given burial. ; The Davis boys were desperate. villains arid ’ well deserved their fate. : -
Newspaper Details
Rochester Daily Republican
Rochester, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 02, 1887
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
Sullivan C.
IN, USA 14 Sep 2019
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