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Clark County, Indiana
Indianapolis (IN) Freeman, December 17, 1910, p. 4.
JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA
Last week the stork came with a big basket to the home of Peter Brown on
National Avenue and left twins-a son and daughter.
Bartholomew County, Indiana
Montpelier (VT) Argus and Patriot, July 29, 1908, p. 8.
Columbus, Indiana, July 24-Frank Pfeiffer, 93 years old, the oldest man in
Bartholomew County, who has been deaf many years, suddenly heard distinctly.
He has been dangerously ill for several weeks as the result of a sun stroke,
and while lying in bed he called to persons in the adjoining room not to
talk so loudly as he could hear their conversation.
Pfeiffer predicted he would die July 4, but is recovering.
Bartholomew County, Indiana
Cincinnati (OH) Daily Enquirer, December 10, 1872, p. 1.
THE BIG LOUISVILLE PRIZE CLAIMED-TEN LUCKY MEN
[Special Dispatch to the Enquirer]
Columbus, Indiana, Dec. 9-There has been considerable excitement here in our
usually quiet little city since Saturday noon over the result of the lottery
drawing at Louisville. A club of ten holding the lucky number 6150, which
drew the $75,000 prize, live here. Their names and occupations are as
follows: W. H. Webb of the firm of Parkinson & Webb, contractors and
builders; T. C. Burgess, clerk in a grocery store; W. D. Summers, grocer;
Albert Jones, ex-county clerk; Charles McColla, cattle dealer; Lloyd
Mortage, carpenter; Frank Pancake, liquor dealer; Gideon Schultz, drayman;
Henry Rothrock, blacksmith; and Charles C. Crawford, traveling agent for
Conduit (difficult to read), Dougherty and Co., Indianapolis-all worthy
gentlemen.
Bartholomew County, Indiana
Prescott (AZ) Weekly Journal Miner, February 8, 1899, p. 1.
Columbus, Indiana, Jan. 31-Mrs. Thomas Williams, a pretty and highly
respected widow of a year, with three children, residing ten miles west of
this city, came here tonight to have Mr. Tolin, a pike builder, arrested for
breach of promise to marry. She said she met Tolin one month ago, said that
she was then engaged to marry a wealthy farmer but broke the engagement to
marry Tolin who claimed to live in North Dakota and to be quite wealthy,
that she sold her farm and stock and was to marry him this week, keeping one
horse and buggy for him to drive back and forth to his work as they were to
live in this city, but that Tolin had disappeared. She was persuaded not to
bring the suit and left, saying she would get a gun and hunt her faithless
suitor and kill him on sight.
Bartholomew County, Indiana
San Jose (CA) Evening News, April 9, 1907, p. 4.
Columbus, Indiana, April 9-Small boys are searching the banks of Haw Creek
for frogs for the use of two physicians.
The physicians will take a small part of the skin from the under part of
each frog and will graft it on the face and arms of Jennie Carter, an
eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carter who live west of this
city.
The little girl was badly burned at school some time ago, and it was thought
for a while that she would die. She is recovering now, however, but the
physicians decided that skin grafting would be necessary. The little girl
is in the Mercy Hospital here and is being prepared for the operation. Only
a small part of the skin of each frog will be used, and it will take several
frogs to do for the operation. The skin to be grafted to the burned places
will be a shade lighter in color than the natural skin of the little girl.
Bartholomew County, Indiana
Cincinnati (OH) Commercial Tribune, March 23, 1880, p. 5.
PETTY THIEVING
[Special to the Cincinnati Commercial]
Columbus, Indiana, March 22---Of late, the J. M. & I. R. R. Co. have been
troubled by thefts of bolts, nuts and other pieces of iron used in bridge
building but could never trace them until today when affidavits were filed
against six boys, one of them, Robert King, being arrested. He states that
they were employed by a notorious junk dealer of this city to commit the
robberies, he buying the plunder of them. As soon as the others are
arrested, a grand jury indictment will be filed against the junk dealer.
King waived an examination and was bound over.
Oswego Daily Palladium, May 19, 1899, p. 8. Available online at
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LYNCHING CASE DECISION
Heirs of a Victim Granted Right of Action for Damages Against Sheriff
Indianapolis, Indiana, May 19-Judge John H. Baker of the United States
District Court, has rendered a decision in which he holds that the heirs of
Marion Tyler, who was lynched at Scottsburg several months ago, had a right
for action for damages against the sheriff of the county and his bondsmen.
The decision was rendered on a motion to overrule a demurrer to the
complainant, James F. Gobin, the sheriff, and his bondsmen were required to
answer the complaint within ten days. The case, which is for $25,000
damages, is expected to come to trial in about a month. In holding that a
sheriff is responsible for the prisoners in his care, the court said:
If the law imposes a duty of care in respect to animals and goods which he
has taken into his possession, by virtue of his office, why should not the
law impose the duty of care on him in respect to human beings who are in his
custody by virtue of his office? Is a helpless prisoner in the custody of a
sheriff less entitled to his care than a bale of goods or a dumb beast? The
law is not subject o any such reproach.
Fellow Genealogists,
Back in January 2012, I shared a number of clippings with various Rootsweb
lists in southern Indiana. As time permits, I want to put some of them on
the IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL list where they might be of interest to those who were
not subscribed to the particular list where I sent the clipping. The
articles pertaining to the lynching of Marion Tyler are of particular
importance because I have written an article for publication in the IGS
quarterly based upon some of those articles. I've referred readers to the
IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL where they can read the a few of clippings that I used in
my research.
Randi Richardson
Indianapolis (IN) State Journal, December 28, 1898, p. 8.
A HOOSIER LYNCHING
Scottsburg Citizens String up Marion Tyler to a Tree
Scottsburg, Indiana, Dec. 24-Marion Tyler was taken from the county jail
here this morning between one and two o'clock by a masked mob and hanged to
a tree in the courthouse yard. Tyler was in jail awaiting trial for
shooting his wife Nov. 3. He shot her twice and shot himself twice, but
both had recovered sufficiently to be up. The sentiment of the people is
divided with a majority condemning the mob's action. There is, of course,
no clue to the identity of any member of the mob. Tyler's trial was set for
Jan. 13.
A few minutes after one o'clock, Sheriff James F. Gobin heard a knock at the
door of his residence and, being used to calls at all hours, went to the
door in his night clothes. Three masked men with drawn revolvers thrust the
door open and grabbed him, and four others with double-barrel shotguns
rushed in. A member of the mob said they wanted Tyler and demanded the keys
to the jail, but the sheriff refused. By this time, the bedroom was crowded
with masked men and the mob's leader leveled a revolver at the sheriff and
demanded the keys in a hurry. The sheriff said he would die first, but his
frightened wife told the mob where to find them.
After obtaining the keys, several members of the mob went to the room of
Deputy Sheriff Cal Gobin and with drawn revolvers compelled him to dress and
come downstairs. Both the sheriff and his deputy were ordered to lead the
way and unlock the jail and cell occupied by Tyler. Both refused, and the
members of the family were placed in one room and guarded while the mob
proceeded to the jail.
The lynchers seemed to understand just where to go. They entered the upper
room of the jail, lighted a lamp in the corridor and placed guards on the
outside of the cell in which Tyler and an old man were confined. The cell
door was unlocked, and two members of the mob entered going direct to
Tyler's bed.
They bound his feet and tied his hands behind him. Then another stood by
the lighted lamp and tied a hangman's noose at the end of a half-inch manila
rope. This was placed over Tyler's neck, and a man took hold of him on each
side, and he was dragged from the jail to the street below. On reaching the
street, Tyler was heard to say, "Oh, my God, kill me here." He was told to
keep quiet, and if he said anything else during the whole performance, the
inmates of the jail or members of the sheriff's family failed to hear it.
The mob took Tyler to the courthouse yard two hundred yards away. The men
were drilled and answered to numbers instead of by name. On reaching the
courtyard, the mob selected a convenient limb on a shade tree, and over this
the end of the rope was thrown. Tyler was placed on an old door and held up
while the end of the rope was tightly fastened. Then the door was allowed
to fall, and Tyler dropped to death by strangulation with his feet about
eighteen inches from the ground. Their work being completed, the mob
marched out the courtyard to the street and disappeared.
All this was done so quickly and so quietly that the town was not aroused.
As soon as the guards were out of sight, Sheriff Gobin came from his
residence, but he could find no trace of the lynchers. From whence they
came or where they went is a mystery. Besides the sheriff's family and the
old man who occupied the cell with Tyler, only one man has been found who
saw them. This was a young man who returned from the country with a horse
that he put in a livery stable. On coming from the stable to go to his
hotel, he was halted by three men with drawn revolvers. He was ordered to
sit down in front of the livery stable and keep quiet. He remained across
the street from the jail. He says those who went into the jail wore long,
dark masks, but the men who guarded him wore no masks that he could discern.
After the mob left the courtyard, this young man was ordered to go into the
stable and remain there half an hour under penalty of being shot. He went
into the stable but came out as Sheriff Gobin was passing. The coroner was
at once notified, and shortly before three o'clock the lifeless body was cut
down and taken to an undertaker's establishment. His parents at
McLeansboro, Ill., were notified, and the body will be sent there.
All thoughts of mob violence had apparently passed from the minds of the
people of this locality soon after the shooting last November, and the
lynching was a surprise. The people of this county greatly deplore and feel
deeply the disgrace that has been brought on the community by this act of an
unknown mob that is generally supposed to have been organized outside of
this county.
This is the first hanging that ever took place within the borders of this
county.
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Jackson (MICH) Citizen Patriot, December 26, 1898, p. 1. NOTE: The article
below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. The first
part of the article was essentially like that noted in the Indiana State
Journal on December 28, 1898.
MOB FINDS A VICTIM
Masked Men Take Marion Tyler from Jail; They Hang Him to a Tree Close By
Scottsburg, Indiana, Dec. 26-A lynching took place here late Friday night
and the procedure was so quiet that few of the residents knew of the
occurrence until morning. Marion Tyler was the victim.
This is the first hanging in the history of Scot County either by law or by
lynching.
Tyler's parents, residing at McLanesboro, Ill., were notified.
Tyler was married to Mrs. Laura Terrell of this place in the spring of 1897,
and after with his wife removed to Indianapolis where they spent several
months but did not live happily together. Mrs. Tyler left her husband and
returned to her mother at this place. After her return here, Tyler made
several trips to this city and attempted to get her to return with him,
which she refused to do. September 3, Tyler came here to see his wife, and
after she again refused to live with him, he shot her twice in the head and
then shot himself. The wounds of each were at the time thought to be fatal,
but up to the time of the lynching, both were recovering.
Indianapolis (IN) State Journal, December 28, 1898, p. 8.
TYLER IN INDIANAPOLIS
He Was an Extra on the Streetcar Lines
Marion Tyler lived in Indianapolis about ten months. At the time of the
shooting, he was employed by the street car company as "first extra." When
he first came here he and his wife lived with her mother at Oliver and
Marion avenues. Some months ago they separated, and Mrs. Tyler's brother
came on from Scottsburg and assisted the wife in moving back there. One
night Tyler went to his home and found the place deserted. It is said by
those who knew him here that after that night he was a changed man.
After his wife left him, Tyler boarded with the family of Joseph Cochran at
2115 North Illinois Street. The Cochrans say he talked a great deal about
his wife. He appeared to lay his troubles at the door of his mother-in-law
and once brought a libel suit against her, afterward dismissing the case.
On the day of the Scottsburg shooting, Tyler left the Cochran home about
seven o'clock in the morning. On the Saturday night before he had
complained that he had been feeling badly but remarked that "it would all be
over and settled one way or the other by another week's end." He said to
Mrs. Cochran on the morning he left that in case he did not come back, she
could burn his clothes, sell them or throw them away just as she pleased.
He appeared in a very serious mood when he bid the family goodbye.
Those who knew Mrs. Tyler say she was a good looking young woman of about
27, or more than ordinary intelligence. She was a widow at the time she was
married to Tyler in Scottsburg. Her first husband was Benjamin Garriott who
died several years ago. She and Tyler were married in the spring of 1897.
Shortly after their marriage, they came to this city. Tyler, it is said,
was about 30 years of age. He was a large, good-looking man. Some of his
acquaintances in West Indianapolis say that trouble between him and his wife
arose over money matters. It is claimed that Tyler made a strong effort to
get hold of his wife's money and this caused an estrangement. They
separated in West Indianapolis on July 18.
Brown County, Indiana
Brown County Democrat (Nashville, Indiana), March 26, 1914, p. 6.
FORMER BROWN COUNTY LADY COMMITS SUICIDE
Mrs. Anna Mathis, wife of Charles Mathis, committed suicide at the family
home at Gilman, Illinois, Sunday night by swallowing poison. Mrs. Mathis
was a daughter of Elmer Roberts, formerly superintendent of the Brown County
poor asylum, now a resident of Petersburg, Bartholomew County. She was 25
years of age. Her husband is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mathis of
Nashville.
On February 28, Harry, little two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mathis, died
of pneumonia, and the mother brooded over the loss of the child until it is
thought her mind became deranged and she committed the rash act.
Mrs. Walter Mathis left Tuesday to attend the funeral.
Brown County Democrat (Nashville, Indiana), March 26, 1914, p. 6.
George Britton, formerly of Nashville, and Addie Moore were married
yesterday in Columbus.
Brown County, Indiana
Brown County Democrat (Nashville, Indiana), March 26, 1914, p. 6.
Dr. James P. Moser, age sixty-five, former well known citizen of Hamblen
Township, this county, died of pneumonia at his home in Windfall, Indiana,
on the 19th inst. A widow and five children survive.
Brown County, Indiana
Brown County Democrat (Nashville, Indiana), March 26, 1914, p. 6.
George W. Roush and Arnold Ayers, well known citizens of Van Buren Township,
are sick of smallpox. Mrs. Henry Brown is also ill of the disease at her
home near Story.
Brown County, Indiana
Brown County Democrat (Nashville, Indiana), March 26, 1914, p. 6.
Mrs. James L. Tilton has returned from New Bellsville where she spent
several weeks with her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Moore, who is in her
eighty-sixth year.
Washington County, Indiana
Canton (OH) Repository, January 13, 1881, p. 1.
SAD BURIAL SCENE
A Father Dies at the Grave of His Daughter
Cincinnati, Jan. 13-A Salem, Indiana, special gives an account of a sad
scene at a country graveyard near that place. On Saturday last Faris
Dalton, an aged and respected citizen, followed the remains of his daughter
to the cemetery. The father and three daughters were near the open grave,
the undertaker removed the coffin lid and invited the friends to take a last
look at the deceased. The father stepped to the side of the coffin, cast
one agonizing look upon the white face of his daughter, and fell dead beside
the bier. The three daughters immediately swooned away and were also
thought to be dead. The scene that followed beggars description. Agonizing
sobs came from all present, and for a time everyone seemed paralyzed with
awe and fear from what seemed an awful calamity-a visitation of God upon an
entire family. After a time the three daughters revived. The aged father's
dead body was carried back to his home and prepared for burial; and now,
side by side, father and daughter sleep in peace awaiting the Great
Awakening.
Washington County, Indiana
Elkhart (IN) Daily Review, July 14, 1900, p. 4.
RECALLS THE JOHN MORGAN RAID
Salem, Indiana, July 14-Thirty-seven years ago General John Morgan, with his
troop of Confederate cavalry, visited this city, burned the Monon station,
cut the telegraph wires and destroyed much of the railway track, besides
levying tribute on mills, factories, stores and banks. A few citizens were
wounded, and John Mahew Wible was killed.
Washington County, Indiana
Ellettsville, Indiana, Monroe County Citizen, April 2, 1892, p. 8.
R. E. Baker, a young physician of Salem, is visiting his brother, James
Baker, at this place. Dr. Baker thinks of locating at Harrodsburg.
Washington County, Indiana
Canton (OH) Repository, January 13, 1881, p. 1.
SAD BURIAL SCENE
A Father Dies at the Grave of His Daughter
Cincinnati, Jan. 13-A Salem, Indiana, special gives an account of a sad
scene at a country graveyard near that place. On Saturday last Faris
Dalton, an aged and respected citizen, followed the remains of his daughter
to the cemetery. The father and three daughters were near the open grave,
the undertaker removed the coffin lid and invited the friends to take a last
look at the deceased. The father stepped to the side of the coffin, cast
one agonizing look upon the white face of his daughter, and fell dead beside
the bier. The three daughters immediately swooned away and were also
thought to be dead. The scene that followed beggars description. Agonizing
sobs came from all present, and for a time everyone seemed paralyzed with
awe and fear from what seemed an awful calamity-a visitation of God upon an
entire family. After a time the three daughters revived. The aged father's
dead body was carried back to his home and prepared for burial; and now,
side by side, father and daughter sleep in peace awaiting the Great
Awakening.