Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — Horrible Outrage in Tennessee. [ARTICLE]

Horrible Outrage in Tennessee.

A recent dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn., says: News has reached this city of a horrible crime in Bledsoe county, Tenn. A few nights since fifteen hogs of John Myers and i Polk Simmonds, prominent citizens of the county, were found poisoned. Last night the ; two men searched a neighborhood called Crow’s Nest for the rniscrcants and founrt a : ball in progress. They were both seized and Myers was beaten almost to death, and SimI monds was thrown down and held by some of the dancers in the ball-room, while others took a sharp knife and mutilated him in a manner too horrible to be detailed. The dance then proceeded as if nothing had occurred. A posse is out in search of the villains. ——===2