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pk* I I :AY*MAY 24 1901.iakeD to tbe Wbitesburg jail. For a mouth the jail was 'closely; guarded.Last January Sol Flemlug implicate! t4 others in the murder of Mrs. Ball and her sou. Coventor Beckham then offered a reward of $;0 each for their arrest. Many, of those implicated were prominent. Among them was Morgan Reynolds. The captain” of the Ku-fcluk gang was a schoolteacher.Thirteen members of the gang remained. These, heavily armed, kid In the mountain fastnesses they know* to well. la February Detective 3aim W. Wright, Sol Wright ami ‘-Wild 'Bill,” a Cincinnati officer, surprised four of the outlaws: while at a dance in Sol Hall's bouse and arrested them.During the last month the officers pursued Son” and George Newsome and Creed rotter to Camden-on-Gaa-ley, W.-V*.. and there io a fierce battle “Son” Newsome was arrested. George Newsome and Potter escaped.. Since then Potter has been in three desperate battles with the officers. The outlaws under ids control now number 50. Trapped in their mountain . j stockade, they are ready' to fight to the ! death. The battle wilt'be n bloody one, for the mountaineers, picked shots every one of them, are determined to kill off the ruffians of the fiukltix clan.
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Lima Times Democrat
Lima, Ohio, US
Fri, May 24, 1901
Page 7
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Jamie T.
TN, USA 05 Jun 2017
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