Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1887 — The Law's Delay [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Law's Delay

'Causes the Outraged Neighbors of Amer Green To Take Him from the Delphi Jail and Hang Him near the Scenes of His Crimes. " ■ ’' •, -~k. J

Full accounts of the lynching of Amer Green may be found on our inside pages. The death of this Wretch ends the career of one or the most desperate and thoroughly hardened criminals the state of Indiana ever produced. The killing of Luella Mabbitt, in August 1886,

was the crowning act in a life de-. voted to crime. Scarcely, an act is in the calendar of crime that ; he has not been guilty of Murder and attempted murder, rape, arson, seduction, perjury, theft, wanton destruction of property, are all on the list. His crimes against men well entitle him to the title, a “Human Tiger.’’ His crimes against woman should, name him a “Devil Incarnate.” His own written diary gives names and, circumstances showing that he had seduced by guile or ravished by force not less than sixty-five women and girls prior to the murder of Luella Mabbitt. As the Chicago Inter-Ocean truly says: “It would have been better that Amer Green bad been hung by the Sheriff than by the mob of Carroll County, but it is perhaps better that he should have been hung by the mob then ; that be should not have been hung at all."

In the account on our inside pages, above referred to, it will 'be seen that Green, .as a last desperate effort to save his neck, declared that Luella Mabbitt was living with a man named Paine, at Fort ■ Worth, Texas. This ■ story has been fully investigated and found to be false. It was the foundation of a tremenduous sensation in Delphi, Monday, night, however, for ; at that time and place, a lady, closely veiled got off the cars and asked for her trunk, which said had been shipped at Fort Worth. The trunk had not arrived and the lady disappeared and was not heard from for a day or two. The next train the trunk arrived, and many persons fully believed, for a time that it was Luella’s. In a day or two, however, it was claimed ed by a lady from Fort Worth who was visiting her father, at Bockfield, a little town a few miles northeast of Delphi, and the sensation was spoiled. It was a most remarkable coincidence. Ellis & Murray are making special low prices in boys and childrens suits. \— 4 -■♦. ♦’ Albums at the post-office, plush and leather, fium $1 to $5 ■ — Box paper at the postoffice, flowered, for 15 cts. to 40.

AMER GREEN.

LUELLA MABBITT.