Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1889 — A MOB'S work. [ARTICLE]

A MOB'S work.

At Tiptonville, Tenn., a landing on the Mississipi River, some weeks ago, a Joung man married the daughter of Irs. J. F. Atchison, a widow. The young man’B father learning that his son’s mother-in-law possessed S3OO or S4OO, concocted \ plan for him, his son, and the yohng wife to murder the old lady for the purpose of robbery. The plan was agreed to and the crime was committed. The neighbors learned of the crime, fixed the guilt upon the trio, and the latter hastily departed. A pease of indignant citizens followed, overtook and-hanged the entire party to the limb of S tree. Tiptonville is practically almost remote as Shanghai, being without railroad or telegraphic communication with the ontside world. “Keep your seats, please, ladies and gentlemen,” said a theatrical manager; “there is no trouble whatever, Dut for some inexplicable reason the gas went onL” Then a boy shouted from the gallery; “Perhaps it didn’t like the play.'