Galveston Daily News, Galveston TX, Saturday, 24 Dec 1887, p. 2. "Met with Firmness. A Mob Marches to a Jail but Marches Away Again. Louisville, Ky., December 23. - A special to the Courier-Journal from Glasgow, Ky. A mob of something less than one hundred men marched into Tompkinsville Wednesday night, and marched out again - that was all. They came desperately determined and thirsting for the gore of five burglars and firebugs now behind the bars of the county jail, but they found outside and in an armed guard every bit as determined as they were, and indeed a little more so. Turner NELSON and William GLAZEBROOK and other sufferers and losers by the robbery and fire boldly confronted the mob and appealed to the excited men to let the la take its course with the prisoners, at the same time telling them emphatically that any attempt to do violence to them would be met with force from the guards, and that there would be more men killed outside than in the jail. The appeal or threat, or the two influences combined, had the desired effect, and the mob quietly dispersed and went its way. "Citizens of Tompkinsville have declared their determination to protect the robbers from lynching, and they will keep their word. Their conduct is highly commended in the face of the fact that many of them have been utterly ruined by these men and their little town crippled and almost paralyzed and their little town crippled almost beyond recovery. That cool temper should prevail under these circumstances is unusual and remarkable. The robbers declared they had no intention of burning the town or even the store house they robbed." [no names of the robbers shown]. SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html