Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — Sounds a Warning at Bedford. [ARTICLE]

Sounds a Warning at Bedford.

Bedford, Ind , Feb. 27 —The f ew people pausing through the public square early this morning discovered dangling from a tree at the south entrance to the court house park, two ropes, each fashioned igto a noose to which were attached placard* inscribed with a warning, and bearing the dames of persons mentioned in conneotion with the several investigations of the Schafer murder case Among other things the inscription read: “If Lawrence county can’t get justice, Jackson and Washington countif s are ready to help,” The placards bore the names of 8. B. Lowe, Eva Love, Judge J. B. Wilson, Prosecutor Robert Miller and Deputy Prosecutor Fred Fletcher. Within a few minutes a small crowd of people were jostling abopt the ropes in an eager effort to decipher the writing, in the dim light of the early morning. The matter created no little excitment and comment. While a great many people speak of the incident as a joke, others refer to the warnings of the Seymour vigilance committee in that city several years ago, which was followed by the hanging of several persons, known as the-“ Reno gang.” The banners were hurriedly taken down by the officials, who refused to discus* the incident.