Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1859 — Lynching a Horse Thief. [ARTICLE]

Lynching a Horse Thief.

We are informed that an escaped convict, named Simpson Sexton, was arrested at tire Macon county fair, which was held on Thursday of last week at Macon City, and taken to Renick, in Randolph county, and there hung up by a Vigilance Committee. Sexton is a noted horse thief, and before his execution made a full confession of his crimes. He gave the names of several persons who have been accomplices with him and formed a gang, whose robberies have been the cause of great trouble and loss to numerous farmers in that section of the State. The upparent'hnpoßsibility of protecting themselves from these desperadoes short of the method adopted by the citizens there, is the reason they gave for a resort to it.-— St. Louis Rep,