Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — Horrible Outrage in Tennessee. [ARTICLE]

Horrible Outrage in Tennessee.

A recent dispatch from Chattanooga, Term. I says: News has reached this city of a bor-l rible orime in Bledsoe county, Tenn. A few! nights since fifteen hogs of John Myers ana Polk Simmondß, prominent citizens of thcrl county, were found poisoned. Last night the] two men searched a neighborhood called! Crow's Nest for the miscreants and found a| ball in progress. They were both seized and! Myers was beaten almost to death, and Simmonds was thrown down and held by some of tbe dancers in the ball-room, while other* took a sharp knife and mutilated him in a manner too horrible to be detailed. The dance then proceeded as if nothing had occurred. A posse is out in search of the villains.