Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1859 — Terrible Tragedy in Lincoln County. [ARTICLE]

Terrible Tragedy in Lincoln County.

[From the Louisville Democrat of Sunday.

A Desperado Hung by a Mob. In May last Jasper Rouzy shot James Oldham in Milledgeville, Lincoln county, and immediately fled. He located himself in a re i ote corner of Marion county', and although the execu ive of the State offered a reward of S4OO for his apprehension, every ‘one was fearlul of attempting to make the arrest —such was his desperate character, and so thoroughly was he armed. While in Marion he was accustomed to committing depredation after depredation of the most serious nature. He would go to the houses of persons and demanded their guns, threatening to blow out their brains in case of rerefusal, so that he was enabled to form quite an arsenal. W On last Monday he went to Bradfordsville, and encountering a gentleman he seized his gold watci, and placing it in bis pocket, said, “What will you do about it!” Just at this juncture a small inan seized him from behind and pinioned bis arms so closely that a number of persons were enabled to come up and assist in handcuffing the prisoner. He was then taken to Lebanon. When leaving the latter place he expressed a ''esire that he might be killed there, as he was sure it he returned to Stanford he would be hung. Arriving at Stanford, the county-seat of Lincoln, he was p;aped in jail. Yesterday (Saturday) morning, about half past two o’clock,! a ‘ mob of some eighty persons attacked the prison, made a forcible entrance, and carried off’ the prisoner. They proceeded a short distance, and then informed Rouzy of their intention. He only requested that his body should be given to his wife and that it remain in peace, as he trusted his soul would. The mob then hung him upon a tr e and left the wretched man suspended between the heavens and the earth. He was not discovered until after daylight. Rouzy had for a long time been a vicious ungovernable person, and w is a perfect terror to the neighborhood of M lledgeville and Huntsville.