Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1911 — LYNCHING IS FRUSTRATED [ARTICLE]

LYNCHING IS FRUSTRATED

Mob Mauls a Bully, but Is Prevented from Stringing Him Up. Sullivan, Ind., Aug. 4. Frank Marsh beat Mike Laden into insensibility with the butt end of a gun after terrorizing the neighborhood in which the two men live. The people were aroused and fifty men caught Marsh and gave him a terrible beating, breaking bis nose and one arm and pounding his face out of shape. With a rope around his neck they were dragging him to a telegraph pole when John Riddle, an attorney, appeared in an automobile. Riddle bolted through the crowd and taking Marsh by the arm hurried with him to the waiting automobile before the infuriated crowd realized what he was doing. As the car was reached, the mob came after Marsh again, but Riddle told them be was an officer of the law and that he had placed Marsh under arrest. He drove away with Marsh, who was placed in jail at Linton.