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Mower County Transcript
Austin, Lansing, Mower County, Minnesota
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In Vandalia, Illinois, brothers John and Bill Kimbro, intoxicated, assaulted citizens with knives, seriously injuring Township Collector De Land by stabbing his liver. They were arrested by Sheriff Steinhaur and posse but narrowly escaped lynching by a mob.
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Two Illinois Toughs Narrowly Escape Lynching at Vandalia.
VANDALIA, Ills., Dec. 27.—John and Bill Kimbro, brothers, from Bond county, came to Vandalia and after filling upon whisky started to take in the town. They flourished knives and assaulted several citizens on the main street. They finally came upon Township Collector De Land, who was getting shaved in a barber shop, and assaulted him, cutting him in the right side, the blade penetrating the liver. The men made their escape, but were arrested shortly afterwards by Sheriff Steinhaur and posse near town and brought back and locked up. It was with extreme difficulty the assassins were spared from hanging by a mob.
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Vandalia, Ills.
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Dec. 27.
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de land cut in the right side, blade penetrating the liver; brothers arrested and locked up, spared from hanging by a mob.
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John and Bill Kimbro, brothers from Bond county, arrived in Vandalia, got drunk on whisky, flourished knives, assaulted several citizens on main street, then attacked Township Collector De Land in a barber shop, stabbing him. They escaped briefly but were arrested by Sheriff Steinhaur and posse near town and brought back.