Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — MISSOURI BALD-KNOBBERS. [ARTICLE]

MISSOURI BALD-KNOBBERS.

Six Placed Under Bonds—An Attempt to Escape—A Revenge-Book. | St. Louis telegram.] Six of the Bald-Knobbers who have been in confinement at Ozark, charged with being implicated in the murder of Eden and Green, have been released on §I,OOO and $2,000 bonds, it being shown that they were not directly concerned in the killing. Several of the prisoners in the Springfield jail made a bold attempt Sunday night to escape. They dug through }he floor of their cefll, and had tunneled some eight feet when they were discovered by Sheriff Dodson and their scheme frustrated. Four of the men were Bald-Knobbers.

It has been revealed that the BaldKnobbers kept a regular vengeance-book, m which were recorded the names of persons marked for some kind of persecution or punishment. It was the custom for members at their various meetings to prefer charges against individuals outside of their order, and then those present voted what sort of punishment should be meted out to them.