Freeport (IL) Daily Journal, December 26, 1899, p. 6. ARREST IN A MOB LAW CASE Freeman Moon Taken in for Complicity in the Lynching of Tyler Scottsburg, Indiana., Dec. 25-The first and long-expected arrest in the Marion Tyler lynching case has occurred. Freeman Moon was placed under arrest on a warrant charging him with aiding, abetting and assisting the mob in hanging Marion Tyler on the morning of December 24 last. The warrant was issued by Justice of the Peace Edwin F. Cranford upon an affidavit sworn out by Deputy Sheriff E. C. Gobin. The arrest will cause a sensation. Moon was in town Saturday and retained his lawyers. It is said that other arrests are to follow immediately.