Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1901 — Gets $4,000 for Lynched Husband. [ARTICLE]

Gets $4,000 for Lynched Husband.

Mrs. Lulu C. Jenkins has been awarded $4,000 for the lynching of he*-husband three years ago in Ripley County, Ind. After the lynching Mrs. Jenkins instituted an indemnity suit and the payment, made by the sheriff's, bondsmen, is the result of a compromise. Four other persons were lynched with Jenkins, the crime charged being horse stealing. A woman who lived near Rochester committed suicide by taking three hinds •f poison.