Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A dispatch from Gainesville, Texas, says that news has reached there from Healdton, I T., that “the thieves who lived in that vicinity and were believed to be connected with a bold band of horse-thieves who have been stealing large numbers of horses in the Chickasaw Nation during last winter, running them into Texas, aud selling them, were seized Monday night by a mob of enraged citizens who live near Healdton and hanged. One of the executed thieves was Bill Morgan. Some of the parties accused of being connected with the mob who did the hanging have been arrested by Deputy United States Marshals.” Advices from Tennessee report that a man has been arrested at Oneida, in that State, who is supposed to be William B. Tascott, the alleged murderer of Millionaire Snell, who was killed in Chicago on the night of February & The prisoner is about 22 years of age, and corresponds very minutely with the description of Tascott furnished by the Chicago police force. The gold filling in the teeth, receding chin, scar on knee and hip, and complexion are the same as described in the circular.