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escaped deal53. jOn successive nights within one j t. week many residences were fired.But their defeat by the band of-citizens beaded by W. S. Wright was a tbe sore spot with the members of the 1st kian. Him they singled out as a victim, ane On Jan. 30,1900, while riding along the rip : public road on Boone’s Fork be was ’ shot from ambush and killed instantly. r0' ■ Soon hundreds were searching the a«3^-For, jacent hills for the murderers, but no the trace couid be found, ad.. The following day John and Noah . Reynolds, brothers, walked into Magis-1 ’ trate Qnillin’s office and said: . .••We want to give ourselves up. We killed Mr. Wright.'1 The Reynoldses m’t were not Kuklnx members at tlust time,.but were friends of the outlaws.1 For some reason the Kukius orgattf-ier‘{:zatlon Increased .rapidly after that osi r°iJ j1 .Boone’s Fork. John and Morgan Ileyn-(Olds, Creed and Isaac Potter, Jrg rth .George.and “Son” Newsome, Lige and rfiol Fleming, Zack and .Tosh Bentley, ;Martin ;and John Wright, Jr.; Mack Sfout®, George Cook and Job Johnson ibecame members, and tfaeo lawlessness broke out anew..Night after night the boraes on Boone's Fork were pierced with bul*let®. in -'July the large Ste«iii aiitlgrist mill operated up to his death by. W. :S. Wright was burned to the ground. In August the public school building on Boone's Fork was burned because the Jvoklijx ,dld hot like Goorg-e Venters, the teacher. During the interval of the next two months several respectable women. were vrhip-ged with hickory clubs,• On the nigbt .of Nov. ifi last the ™ gang ldiied Mrs. Minna. Jlnll. a re-,-specta.ble .old widow, and her 3 6-yen r-.oUj son, Sherwood Reynolds.- Mon and ^ officers rushed to the scene and searched everywhere, but ilie murderers .. could not be found. There was one as clew. Tracks, made evidently by a ■ ) dilapidated old shoe, were noticed near hJ the bonse. On the night of the miir-der similar-track* led to the home-of Sol Fleming, a mile from the ecene of the murder. His arrest followed, and. 5J' amid the cries of an excited mob. who^ ■ were beat oa lynching him, bo wa*
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Lima Times Democrat
Lima, Ohio, US
Fri, May 24, 1901
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