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KVliliUX AT THKItt X^VLLTUY.his -wife from her bed, stripped her us '} me wulat and beat her brutally with j lirJ * j hickory clubs. After that they whi?- i * ncd her servant.' Sarah Cleek, i\\ the sai pTaenturoetOr f Hayc screa^ same manner. The tv omen barely. caped with thoir lives, ■ i; This outrage thmv the county Into a f 1 -fever of cxeAemcnt. A few weeks later . y11 ^, \law abiding citizens bended by W. S, '. Wright, the most prominent man hi the 41 county, attacked a band of the kJan ut ' the mouth of Boones Fork on their way to a scene of disonier. Shots were cx~ ^ : changed and a fierce battle waged, j rjG;1'% | Two of the desperadoes had their ; horses shot under them. Lewis Lucas, ', yf'tct one of the gtlng, was killed, and WU- $ lie Johnson, another .member, was eeri- 'ous!y wounded.After this event the lawlessness ofhis t)Hayiing \ ait b;i• t Sr * * *•* * U J« V ' j Jthe gang ceased for two mouths. But j ey nlt;write aiul ion it those\remAnd t 'To t:Thvalltin the Els weeks follow lug 1H law abiding citizens were horribly whipped in , the Rockbouse Creek vicinity. I *tritOn one occasion the gang tired into j ”Ji{^ the home of Postajaster itowlet Hale j •t“e of Uockhouse, and his family narrowly escaped death. _On successive nights within one j uult;-_“ week many residences were fired.But their defeat by the band of cits* setis headed by W. S. Wright was A sore spot with the members of the klan. Him they singled out as a victim.On Jan. 30,1900, while riding along the : public road on Boone’s Fork be was shot from ambush and killed instantly., Soon hundreds were searching the acb , jacent.hills for the murderers, but no trace could be found.The following day John and Noah Reynolds, brothers, walked into Magistrate QniJlin’s office and said:••We want to give ourselves up. We killed Mr. Wright. The Reynoldses were not Kuklus members at thattime,-but were friends of the outlaws.For some reason the Kublux orgattf-.zatlon Increased .rapidly after that ost .Boone’s Fork. John and Morgan Iteyn-(Olds, Creed and Isaac Potter, Jr4 iGeorge.and “Son” Newsome, Llge and rfiol Fleming, Zack and Josh Bentley, ;Martin sand .John Wright, Jr.; Mack SfoutB, George Cook and Joe Johnson ■.became members, and then lawlessness .broke out anew.
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Lima Times Democrat
Lima, Ohio, US
Fri, May 24, 1901
Page 7
Full Page
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Jamie T.
TN, USA 26 May 2017
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