Lawless persons infesting some of the Middle States. See quotations.
1909. Night riders are terrorizing land-owners and tenants [in Indiana].—N.Y. Evening Post, April 15.
1909. The Presbyterian Church at Fredonia, Caldwell Co., Ky., was burned last night, and “night riders” are suspected. Blood hounds have been put on the trail.—Id., April 15.
1909. Had Kentucky stamped out her Night Riders in their first anarchy, Indiana would not now be vexed by the inevitable imitation.—Id., April 19.
1909. Lexington, Ky. A girl armed with a double-barrelled shotgun put to flight forty night riders when they broke down the door of her father’s house last night. The riders appeared at the home of George Kreitz, evidently with the intention of whipping him.—Id., Oct. 28.
