Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — FIVE MEN LYNCHED. [ARTICLE]

FIVE MEN LYNCHED.

Enraged Citizens of Indiana Sbo.it and Hang Prisoners. At Osgood, Ind., a mob of 400 infuriated men Tuesday night lynched Lyle Levi, Bert Andrews, Clifford Gordon, William Jenkins and Hiney Shuler. They were taken from the authorities. The men had been arrested for burglary. Frequent robberies had enraged the citizens of the county and the mob was composed of men from Slilan, Sunman and other towns. The mob, on horseback, entered the town an hour after midnight and called out Jailer Kenan, who, upon refusing to give up the keys, was overpowered. The men soon pushed their way into the cellrooms, and in their impatience first fired on the five prisoners and then dragged them to a tree, a square from the jail door, and hung them up. Andrews and Gordon had already been wounded, having been shot several times while attempting to rob a store at Correct Saturday night. Shuler was in jail for attempted burglary and Levi and Jenkins had just been indicted by the grand jury for robbery. They had failed to give bond, and were put in jail