Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1911 — PRISONERS ARE SAVED [ARTICLE]

PRISONERS ARE SAVED

Confessed Murderers Transferred to Reformatory. Mob Forming Near Bedford, Ind. t* Balked of Its Prey by Promptness of Sheriff. / Bedford, Ind., Nov. 10. —The hurrying away of five prisoners in the county jail at midnight prevented the duplication of a crime that was committed in Ripley county a few years ago, when five persons were taken from the jail and hanged. A mob of several hundred had formed three miles from this city and was starting here when the sheriff received word of its approach and hurried the prisoners off in a machine to the reformatory at Jeffersonville The prisoners, were Ollie Younger, James Fultz, Charles Mitchell, Lois Sutton and Della Hamilton. They are charged with the murder and robbery jof James Mitchell, and the trio have confessed.