Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1889 — INDIANA JUSTICE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA JUSTICE.

A Mob at Corydon Quietly Hangs Two Alleged Marde ere. Devin and Tennyson, the alleged murderers of J. D. Lemay and wife were banged by a mob at Corydon, Ind-, at 2:30 Thursday rroming. They were hung from the bridge west of town. They refused to say a word, or make any confession. The membera imob were not disguised. They got into the jail by cutting down two iron doors. The captain gave orders that they were not to be cut down until 9 o’clock Thursday morning and the mob then dispersed. The mob was a most quiet and orderly one, numbering about two hundred men. They covered the sherifl with Winchesters and revolvers and forced him to give up the keys. Devin and Tennyson were remarkably cool and collected and toox their impending fate stoically. At the bridge they were given an opportunity for prayerj which they declined. They made no explanation of their crime. Last Friday night the two men who were lynched stopped at the residence of James D. Lemay, a wealthy farmer who resides near Corydon. They were well dressed, apparently about twentyfive years of age and represented themselves to Farmer Lemay as stock buyers. Mr. Lemay had his wife nrepared supper for them, and wDile they were eating he armed himself with a revolver, having had bis suspicions aroused by their actions. After they had finished their supper they and Mr. Lemay’s family sat d • wn on a porch and engaged in conversation until about 8 o’clock, when the strangers suddenly arose, with drawn revolvers, and ordered the membera of the familv into the house, remai kingthat they meant buri ners. Mr. Lemay and his wife went into one room and were followed by one of the strangers and his niece, Miss Lucy Lemay, and a young farm hand went into-an-other room and were locked in by the other stranger, who followed them. Mr. Lemay drew his revolver, and the stranger who confronted him began firing, emptying his pistol, a five-shot Colt’s revolver. All of the shots took effect, two of them penetrating Mr. Lemay’s bowels, the other penetrating his hands and arms. The other stranger fired one shot which passed through the young lady’s right breast and lodged in her left breast. Mr. Lemay,although badly wounded, opened fire on the men and put them to flight. An alarm was given, and a number of neighbors soon arrived, some of them starting in pursuit of the strangers, while others went to Corydon for medical assistance. The two would-be murderers escaped, but were finally captured at New Albany and taken to the Harrison county jail at Corydon.