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c.□eh ivm-If the ) no but lor3.t.ra-the1stjaerip/?re-For,thead-;do,an’tto |3er, you |rth;I4*I* ,4V5er.High*-iesewasthe1unsesri'fflie Johnson, auotuer Jitemue:;, nas ben- ; ousiy wounded. | rAfter this event the lawlessness of • Rt tbo gang ceased for two months. But j in the sis weeks follow lug VS law abid- j wfi lag citizens were horribly whipped in ] nJ1 the Rockbouse Creek vicinity. i mOn one occasion the gang tired into j ™ the home of Fostantster Row let Hale I -thlIIof Rockhouse, and bis family narrowly 1 or‘escaped death. !On successive nights within one j week xnaay residences were fired. Xi 1But their defeat by the band of-citi* At)'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. 30,10QQ, while riding along the public road on Boone’s Fork be was shot from ambush and killed instantly. Soon hundreds were searching the adjacent hills for the murderers, but no trace could be found.The following day John and Noah Reynolds, brothers, walked into Magistrate Qnlllm’s office and said: . .••We want to give ourselves up. Wo killed Sir. Wright.” Tho Reynoldses were not Suklus members at tlart time,-but were friends of the outlaws.For some reason the Kaklux organization Increased .rapidly after that o® .Boone’s Fork. John and Morgan Reyn-(©ids, Creed and Isaac Potter, Jr4 iGeorge.and “Son” Newsome, Ltige and .•'So! Fleming, Zack and .Tosh Bentley, Martin ;and John Wright, Jr.; Mack ■^foutB, George Cook and Joe Johnson •.became members, and then lawlessness broke out anew..Night after eight the homes on Boone’s Fork were pierced with bullets. In Jt)iy the large Ste-ani £mtl grist mill operated up to his death by.W. :S. Wright was burned to the ground. In August the public school building on Booue’s Fork was burned because the KuW'U idid hot like George Venters, the teacher. During the interval of the next two months Several respectable women were whip-ged with hickory clubs,• On the night of Nov. 16 last tte % gang lilRed Mrs. SHimrt. Hall, a re* -* «pectabie .old widow, and her 36*year-.oW son, Sherwood Reynolds.- Mon andPGofficers rushed to the scene and search- nid everywhere, but the murderers iould not be found. There was one ’lew. Tracks, made evidently by a lilapidated old shoe, were noticed near the bonfse. On the night of the miir-3er similar tracks* ied to the home of Sol Fleming, a mile from the scene of u the murder. His arrest followed, and. a staid the cries of no excited mob. who xver* beat on lynching him, be wa* *tolieGfr
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Lima Times Democrat
Lima, Ohio, US
Fri, May 24, 1901
Page 7
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