LYNCH LAW.

Western Star, Issue 429, 23 March 1881, Page 3

LYNCH LAW.

I A special despatch to tbe “New. York'Tribune,” from Tupelo, a station on the Mobile.and Ohio railroad, gives the following account .of a horrible prime committed in the ■northern part of Monroe County. Mr Brown Biding, whose family consisted of a wife and a daughter .two years old, on Saturday night permitted ‘two men, giving the name of 'Miller* to stay at His house. They occupied a bed in the same room with-thfe-family*, it being the only one in which- there was a fireplace. About eleven o’clock .flames from the cottage attracted the Attention of the neighbors-, who found the house so wrapped' in flames that it could,,not, he saved..-s It swas thought, the family had been: .absent for the flight, but the charred remains of three persons were found -in the ruins. An investigation developed the facts, and search was made. for. the two. men. One had gone towards Aberdeen, and the other had started in the direction of Tupelo. The; posse that 1 went (towards Aberdeen found a man hidden in a field six miles Treat that town. He was taken back to. .the scene of the fire, where he told the following story: —“ We wanted money. We were per* mitted to remain over night, and Jay awake-after retiring, until the heavy breathing,,qf the family satisfied 7us that they were asleep, when we arose, administered chloroform to them, and rifled the house of what valuables we could find—a-watch/a ;suit of clothes, a| pair of boots, and 27d0l in money. Then we scattered cotton, saturated with coal oil, over the floor and on the bed, set fire to it, and ran away.” The crowd, was composed of twenty-five resolute men, who determined that the villain should be punished as he deserved. They pinioned his ’arms, arranged pine splinters around him, and set them on lire. !