Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — LATEST FROM KENTUCKY. [ARTICLE]

LATEST FROM KENTUCKY.

The “Dark and Bloody Ground” Sustain* Its Reputation. A Henderson, Ky., special to the Indi,' anapolis Journal, Oct. 8, says: Two farm-! ers, Raymond Martin and Robert Rye, ati Bardsville, Ky., fourteen miles from here; quarreled, today, about a woman. Martin got two axes. Handing one to Rye, he proposed a duel. They fought until Rye had both arms severed and fell dead, Martin received horrid gashes about the head and is dying. Monday night, Alexander Richardson, who murdered Mrs. Wiley, Saturday as-j ternoon, near Irvine, was taken from thq jail by one hundred determined men, who took him to a bridge a mile from town an<i hung him. The mob was a very quiet and orderly one. Richardson protested his innocence to the last, and told the lynchers if they hung him they would hang an innocent man.