Ready For Rope
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
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🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Episode 353 takes place in late 19th century Minnesota, but plays out like a classic Western tale. You know the one, where a pair of strangers come into town, shoot the sheriff, and incite the citizenry to take the law into their own hands.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:04.0 | Glencoe Minnesota, June 24, 1896. |
| 0:17.0 | The most cruel and desperate murder ever committed in this part of Minnesota occurred this evening. |
| 0:24.6 | Two desperate characters, both young men about 24 or 25 years of age. |
| 0:31.6 | Dark complexion, weight about 150 pounds, height about 5 feet 8 inches. |
| 0:38.3 | One wearing dark clothes and a straw hat, the other dark clothes in a cowboy hat. |
| 0:44.3 | One carrying a rifle and the other armed with a revolver. |
| 0:49.3 | Traveling on foot from the northern part of the county, |
| 0:53.3 | met Mr. Matthews, a farmer living three miles north of town, |
| 0:58.0 | provoked a slight altercation with him, and assaulted him, knocking him down. |
| 1:04.0 | They then compelled a passing farmer to carry them to town. |
| 1:09.0 | Mr. Matthews followed them into town and secured a warrant for their arrest. |
| 1:15.5 | The warrant was placed in the hands of Sheriff Joseph Rogers, one of the most popular officials in the |
| 1:21.8 | county, whose bravery and devotion to his duty was soon to cost him his life. |
| 1:28.3 | The desperadoes had a one-half-hour start of the sheriff and had taken the road leading directly south of town. |
| 1:36.3 | The sheriff, with a companion Louis Link, driving his team, overtook them about four miles south of town. He alighted from the buggy, saying, |
| 1:46.5 | I want you to come down with me as I have a warrant for your arrest. One of the men replied, |
| 1:53.4 | I guess not, I'll shoot you, and with a revolver, shot him in the leg. Realizing now that he had desperate men to deal with, the sheriff then attempted to draw his |
| 2:05.6 | revolver from his pocket. |
| 2:07.6 | Immediately the second desperado, with a rifle deliberately aimed at his breast and fired, |
| 2:14.6 | killing him instantly. |
| 2:16.6 | Mr. Link, his companion, galloped his team to the nearest farmer, |
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