Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1859 — Lynching. [ARTICLE]

Lynching.

The Owen county Journal says that Dr. Ellis, whose whipping fay the Regulators of Greene county we noticed the otherday, “came to grief” by returning to the county after being warned off. He thought lie would not be noticed, but he was mistaken. The following item indicates another •‘Regulator” job we suspect: “The nev/s reached here on Monday, that a notorious character, named Spelts, wis found one day last week in a tree top. some sixty feet from the ground, suspended by the neck. It was thought, from the appearance of the body, that it had been there several days. Spelts, according to the statements of the men now in onr jail for the attempted robbery and murder of Mr. Deppa a few weeks ago, is the third one of their party, the jpne who at the time made his escape, and the ojie .who is supposed to have killed Mr- Deppa, By some means the rope was thrown over the,limb of a high tree, one end tied round the neck of the victim, and the other end, after Spelts had been tlrawn up to the desired bight, tied round t(\e trunk. Who hung Spelts, we presume, will remain a my«tcry ” .