Jackson (MICH) Citizen, January 1, 1897, p. 7. NOTE: Rippey has been identified in other news items as Rippley and Ripley. CHARGED WITH MURDER Officers Kill a Men Near Salem, Indiana, and Are Jailed Louisville, Ky., Dec. 30-John Sexton, a member of the local detective force, John Brown, a deputy jailer here, and Robert Land, also of Louisville, are in jail at Salem, Indiana, charged with killing John C. Rippey. The officers had received information from Land that Harry Brooks, sentenced to six years imprisonment for post office robbery and who recently escaped from the local jail, was in hiding at the home of Richard Land four miles from Salem. The officers, led by Land, Tuesday morning swooped down on the house without giving the inmates any warning. Richard Land, thinking the house had been attacked by burglars, ordered Rippey, who was residing with the Lands, to fire. This he did without effect. Sexton and Brown then fired simultaneously and Rippey dropped dead. The officers and Land then went to Salem and surrendered. Rippey was only 19 years of age.