Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — KETTLE JACK'S GANG LYNCHED. [ARTICLE]

KETTLE JACK'S GANG LYNCHED.

A Bad Xot o t De« p »r»s4o»s Kit-lr p ated ea I the Big Horn. The people of the Big Horn Basin, John--1 son county, Wyoming Territory, have broken up Kettle Jack’s gang of thieves fend cut-throats by lynching eleven of them aud driving the remainder out of the Country. Kettle Jack and companions arrived in that region a year ago, and have since lived like barbarians. After being 1 Reinforced by a number of desperate characters they began to plunder tho settlers, at first taking only slaughtered beef and [ stale food. Growing bolder they commenced to run horses into Utah and Montana. Farmer Jones and two grown sons pursued the gang and made a fight for some of their stolen property, but were shot down. Finally the people living in the 1 basin, some 500 in number, began to live in mortal terror of Kettle Jack’s band. Jack made captive of and forced into marriage the daughter of a leading citizen. The father headed a rescuing party, but the rescuers were defeated with the loss of two killed au<J half a dozen wounded. 'Jack grew bolder and bolder, until the citizens determined to wipe out the outlaw. They succeed in storming the Mmp ot the desperadoes, and the lynching followed.