Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1886 — GENTLEMEN BURGLARS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

GENTLEMEN BURGLARS KILLED.

A Tennessee Merchant and an Armed Crowd Pursue Three Cracksmen. [Chattanooga telegram.] A terrible tragedy occurred at Knoxville Junction, eighty miles from this city, in which two daring safe robbers were killed by a pursuing posse. Last Friday night three burglars broke into the store of J. M. Hamby, a merchant at Gleumary, and attempted to crack his safe, in which there were several thousand dollars, They were detected by the merchant, who at once opened fire on them. They returned the lire and a regular fusilado ensued, in which twenty-five shots were exchanged, but no one wsis wounded.

The burglars tied ,and no trace of them was found until this morning, when Hamby learned that the robbers were encamped on the Emory River. He enlisted a posse and wont in pursuit of the desperadoes. They were found concealed among some crossties, and were ordered to surrender. Two ot the burglars threw up their hands, but the third shouted defiance at the posse and swore ho would never give up. The posso shot him dead, his body being perforated with bullets. The remaining two fled, but ono was shot, and in bis agony leaped over a bluff 400 feet high into the Emory Hiver and was drowned. The third burglar escaped. The two burglars killed were handsomely dressed and wore fine diamonds and watches. No clew to thoir identity could be obtained.