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The lynch job creeps forward
SUMMARY. Two weeks ago, we began the epic Table Rock story of the last Christmas of the Civil War. Horse thieves plagued southeast Nebraska in response to a voracious market created by the Civil War. Two thieves, Paul Clifton, and Joe Catron, stole a fine team of horses from Andrew Fellers. Fellers and three others tracked them down to Henry Shuey’s place down on the South Fork. The thieves were…