Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — HANG A JURY IN EFFIGY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HANG A JURY IN EFFIGY.

Indignant North Dakota Citizens Seek to Avenge a Murder Trial Verdict. The people of Medora, N. D., who became indignant at the action of a Burleigh County Jury in acquitting the alleged murderer of a ranchman who lived near Medora, in Billings County, hung the jury in effigy to a large cottonwood tree which grew close to the Billings County jail, and gave expression to their feelings in a large placard nailed to the

aide of the jail. The whole scene was in plain view from the passenger trains on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and excited much comment. Medora is hemmed in by the fantastically shaped and desolate Bad Land scoria buttes, which added to the weird spectacle as the effigies swayed and turned in the breezes. After remaining hung there for a week some Bismarckians came down on the scene at night and cut down the efligies and tore off the banner. I