Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1888 — HORSE THIEVES KILLED. [ARTICLE]

HORSE THIEVES KILLED.

A special from Kansas City says: A telegram from Paladora, in the public land strip, says that the farmers and herdsmen of that section, who had lost many horses and cattle recently, suspected a band of campers who claimed to be catching wild horses, and, finding evidence-of guilt, forty well-armed vigilantes surrounded the camp and sent in a committee of six men to demand the surrender of the thieves. The reply of the desperadoes was a volley which wounded one man and two hoisea. This angered the vigilantes, and firing was at once begun and the outlaws shot down without mercy.. They fought desperately, and no quarter was asked or given.. In twelve minutes the firing ceased, and seventeen outlaws were found to have been killed. The vigilantes had three men killed and nine wounded. Two horses were 'also killed, and seven wounded. Sixteen stolen horses were recovered. Not one outlaw escaped alive.