Benton County TN Archives News.....A Dastardly Outrage June 25, 1891
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The Constitution, Atlanta, GA. June 25, 1891
An Old Couple Tortured to Reveal Where They Kept Their Money.

Nashville, Tenn., June 24. -- Near Holliday, in Benton county, great excitement 

is reported over an outrage perpetrated Monday night by six men. 



They visited an old man named Lamrock and beat and tortured him, with the hope 

of learning where his money was hidden.  Finally they took his wife, who was 

seventy years of age, to the woods and began to torture her.  She finally 

consented to reveal the hiding place of their money, and was being taken back 

to the house, when two fo the men who had been left on guard mistook them for 

neighbors and fired.



The whole party fled.  Yesterday morning a written agreement was found, signed 

by four men, pledging secrecy and agreeing to shoot any one who turned 

informer.  Citizens are scouring the county for the guilty parties, and a 

hanging bee is anticipated. 

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