Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — GENTLEMEN BURGLARS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

GENTLEMEN BURGLARS KILLED.

A Tennessee Merchant and an Armed Crowd Pursue Tliree Cracksmen. [Chattanooga telegram.] A terrible tragedy occurred at Knoxville Junction, eighty miles from this city, in which two daring safe robbers were killed by a pursuing posse. Last Friday night three burglars broke into the store of J. M. Hamby, a merchant at Glenmary, and attempted to crack bis safe, in which there were several thousand dollars. They were detected by the merchant, who jit once opened fire on them. They returned the fire and a regular fusilade ensued, in which twenty-five shots were exchanged, but no one was wounded. The burglars fled ,and no trace of them was found until tbis morning, when Hamby learned that the robbers were encamped on the Emoiy River. He enlisted a posse and went in pursuit of the desperadoes. They were found concealed among some crossties, and were ordered to surrender. Two of the burglars threw up their hands, but the third shouted defiance at the posse and swore he would never give up. The posse 6hot him dead, his body being perforated with bullets. The remaining two fled, but one was shot, and in his agony leaped oyer n bluff 400 feet high into the Emory River and was drowned. The third burglar escaped. The two burglars killed were handsomely dressed and wore fine diamonds and watches. No clew to their identity conld be obtained. _j A Washington correspondent says that the President’s choice Democratic ticket for 18S8 is Cleveland and Yoorhees. A man in New York has the distinction of a tooth in bis nose. He is new ready for museum orders. ~ Sam Jones says that progressive euchre is progressive toward hell at the rate of a mile a minute. Ex- Senator Davis, of West Virginia, has given SIO,OOO toward a high school at Piedmont.