Ren Brother Train Robbery

Title: Ren Brother Train Robbery
Description: Reno Brother Gang committed one of the first train robberies on May 22nd on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad (JM&I) near Marshfield (between Scottsburg and Austin). Two of the brothers (William and Simeon) were arrested in July and held at the Scott County Jail in Lexington before they were transferred to the Floyd County Jail in New Albany for safekeeping which was thought to be a more secure jail. There, they were lynched by a mob of over 65 people in the stairwell of the jail on the night of December 11th-12th.
Date: 1868