They knew how to win, good job vigilante’s.
The criminals who got their just desserts basically sound like Antifa, burning, looting and destroying.
If your money was in a bank and it was robbed then you lost the money as the bank did not have insurance like today. The prisoners were not innocents and deserved to die.
FTA: Upon the 22d of May last, the cars of the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad, while stopping at Marshville station, — an isolated station, or rather watering place, — were forcibly seized, the engineer, fireman and express messenger were thrown from the engine and cars, and the engine and express car having been disconnected, were run at a rapid rate of speed within a half mile of Seymour.
Here they were left, the express safes having been robbed of all their treasure, amounting to nearly $100,000. The express messenger was thrown from the cars by the robbers when the train was running at the rate of thirty miles an hour.