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ing men were arrested: Miles C, Payne, George McDougal, Sol Stout, Mai comb liuroham, Davis French, Joseph Ilall, William Hall and E. Kessler. On the 23d Kessler made a confession which revealed mauy important facts. Upon examination McDougal was found guilty of murder and was hanged on January 26,1858.The hanging took place at Ligonier, in Noble county, a few miles west of Kessler station, where the recent raid took place. McDougal, in his confession, Btated that he had practiced his thieving and distribution of counterfeit money as far east as the state of New York. -One William D. Ilill, was perhaps the most notorious character of thewhole gang. 0. P. Bradley and 0. £. Smith, of Chicago, after traveling some three or four thousand miles and spending much money, captured him near the line between Missouri and Iowa. He had said that he would never be taken alive. His captors, however, by their shrewdness, threw him off his guard, and yet when the arrest was made he fought desperately for about fifteen minutes. They brought him back to Noble county. He was in great fear of the Regulators, and fully expected to share the fate of McDougal, but on March 5, 1859, he made his escape.Mr. Bradley also captured two others of the same gang at Warren, Ohio, previous to the taking of Hill. Their names were Perry Randolph and George Elmer. Those three men were regarded as the most important characters among the rogues; and hence their arrest was intensely desired by the people of Northern Indiana.The regulators greatly purified theatmosphere of Northern Indiana. Fromthat time to this that part of our state is exceedingly desirable as a dwelling place, as some of us know from actual experience. Doubtless the rogues who perpetrated the recent robbery are from a distance, possibly from Chicago, some have suggested. Such raids are likely to strike us anyw’here.
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Goshen Democrat
Goshen, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 27, 1893
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