[cripplecreek]

My great grandmother told me about a child molester they caught in the area she lived around 1910. She said the menfolk took him on a midnight tour of the steelworks and showed him the smelter.

She said he must have left town because nobody ever saw him again.

[oldfart]

Back in ‘42 when nearly all the Sheriff’s deputies were gone to the Army, we had a guy who was molesting his own daughters. A bunch of the local men, mostly farmers, got together and had a “talk” with him.

He must have been very sorry for what he had done ‘cause the overworked sheriff found him the next day, hanging from a tree limb. The sheriff called it suicide alright, but did comment on the rope around his wrists. It was some of the same stuff he had around his neck.

All the people who ‘witnessed’ this suicide are long gone now, so I can tell you that my dad was with the group that went to talk to him. Dad was sober when he left the house and sober when he came home, but he did a lot of drinking before he went to bed.

[SoldierDad]

I was told a similar story, but this one involved nailing the perp’s offending appendage to the floor of a dilapidated outbuilding, setting the building on fire, and giving the perp a very dull knife.

[Windflier]

She said the menfolk took him on a midnight tour of the steelworks and showed him the smelter. She said he must have left town because nobody ever saw him again.

Yeah, but the smelter smelled kinda funny for a couple days afterwards. Never did figure that out. Oh well.