Indiana State Sentinel, June 28, 1849, digital image available online at newspapers.library.in.gov. LYNCHNG-We learn from the Bloomington Tribune that that peaceful town was suddenly thrown into an excitement on the 6th inst., by an unexpected visit of an armed band consisting of 26 or 30 men. The Tribune says: It seems that there lived in this county and in Brown, contiguous to each other on Salt Creek, a large connection who had proved themselves a nuisance and a perpetual pest to society by their disregard of all law, human and divine, and their many acts of villainy, particularly theft, swindling and rape. The law, it seemed, could not get its iron hand upon them, and so the people united as we have seen in self defense and determined to expel them from the county. They caught and lynched some two or three of the ringleaders of the gang and gave them some 30 days to leave the county. A portion of them had left within the time, but some of them were still behind and the time had expired. The company who rode into town on Wednesday last was in pursuit of them, to gather them up and compel them to leave immediately They succeeded in finding one of them in town, Jo. See (sic), who had come to town on business. The company surrounded him and compelled him to go home for the purpose of loading up his wagons for an early start on Thursday morning. The captain and other informed us that they would not hurt them provided they would go away peaceably; but they intended to escort them to the county line and see them safe away.