Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — GOV. MOUNT IN DEAD EARNEST. [ARTICLE]

GOV. MOUNT IN DEAD EARNEST.

Says He Will Insist on the Indictment of the Osgood L*ynchers. Gov. Mount announces that if the present Ripley County grand jury fails to indict, the men who participated in the Versailles lynching, he will send Attorney General Ketcham to the county to conduct an inquiry before a new jury. There will be no relaxation of effort, he says, until the lynchers have been punished. The Governor says he still has confidence in the present jury, but he wishes it understood that he is deeply in earnest in this effort to have the lynchers punished. A dispatch from Osgood says several persons have suddenly disappeared from that place, and the impression prevails that all the' ringleaders in the lynching will leave the State as soon as they find that the grand jury is close after them.