Croquis historiques et souvenirs du comté de Madison, Indiana . tion ne me permettra pas de dévier un pouce pour dévier mes sentiments personnels dans cette affaire. Après avoir entendu la preuve, le jugement de ce tribunal est que vous avez areguilty, et votre peine est que vous soyez publiquement tiré par le titulaire des actionnaires pour être choisi bv le maréchal. Le regard malheur de l'homme aurait été un ténébreux pour le stylo d'un artiste. Il pensait que son pompon était scellé. Après un appel épiteux à ses amis de la Commission, ils ont intercédé pour lui, et ont persuadé la cour de surpender la peine. Il était RE

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Historical sketches and reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana . tion will not allow me to swerve an inch to-ward my personal feelings in this matter. After hearing allof the evidence, the judgment of this court is that you areguilty, and your sentence is that you be publicly shot by acommittee of the stockholders to be selected bv the marshal. The woe-begone look of the man would have been a tinesubject for the pen of an artist. He thought his doom wassealed. After a piteous appeal to his friends on the Board, they interceded for him, and persuaded the court to suspendthe sentence. He was released on his good behavioi. andalways paid his way into the fair thereafter. CHAPTER XXXI. Two AwFii- Crimes THE AliBorr MIKDF.I!. Ihc following account of an earlv crime in Madisoncounty has almost passed out of the memory of the oldest liv-ing inhabitants of the community. The details are furnishedus by F. T. Lu>e, who obtained the facts from some old settlersmany years ago, when he was publishing the AndersonStoiii/ari/, and we quote them as given to us :. THE SCENE OF THE AliBOlT .MUKDER IN ISoU. ?In the early settlement of almost eyery comity in thisState, as well as in others, there was more or less lawlessness, disrespect for the rights of others, and a general contempt forgood order. Even to-day we see this evidence in manylocalities of the west, where robbery, murder, counterfeiting, etc., abound, and a general reign of terror predominates.Where there is no law there is little or no society, and therevolver figures more prominently before the public eye thando^the scales of justice. Until courts are organized and theproper machinery of the law is adjusted to the surroundings, 240 HISTORY OF MADISON COLNIV, INDIANA. such will continue to be the state of atTairs in almost all newsettlements. Madison count}- was not e.xempt from lawless charactersin its early settlement, and between the years of 18^5 and1835 there were many strange characters residing within itsboundari

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