Waterloo (IA) Daily Courier, April 3, 1899, p. 4. NOTE: Available from www.newspaperarchive.com. REGARDED AS A HUGH FARCE Recent Grand Jury Inquiry into an Indiana Lynching Scottsburg, Indiana, Apr. 3-The grand jury finished its investigation on the Marion Tyler lynching. Six sealed indictments were returned, but it is not believed that any of them are against the lynchers. But four days were spent in the investigation and fewer witnesses were examined than before. People generally regard the investigation as a huge farce. The detectives in the case had no confidence in the grand jury and claim that certain of its members are in league with the lynchers who all left the state to avoid testifying, and many other important witnesses could not be found. The opinion here is that the leaders of the mob will be arrested on information prior to the trial of the damage suit against Sheriff Gobin in the federal court at Indianapolis next month. Marion Tyler was lynched in this city on the morning of December 24 for attempting to kill his wife and then himself at the home f his mother-in-law Nov. 3, 1898. Mrs. Tyler was formerly Laura Terrell, and first married a man named Benjamin Garriott of this city. Sometime after his death she married Marion Tyler who was employed by the streetcar company. Last July they quarreled, and she left him. He made repeated efforts to have her return, but failed. On November 3 he made his last attempt and, failing, he shot her twice and then shot himself. Mrs. Tyler recovered fully, but it was the middle of December before Tyler could leave his bed. All excitement had subsided when a masked mob visited the jail, forced Jailer Gobin to give up the keys, and taking Tyler out lynched him to a tree near the jail.