Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-08-17
The Lynching in Wisconsin,.

The LynchinE in Wisconsin,.
By ihe Milwaukee Sentinel Of the 9Th, il
appears that we we're right when on receipt
of the telegraphic dispatch announcing the
killing Of De BAR by the populace. We said
he was killed without having trial. This
was so, The facts being these:
Judge Larabes called a special session
ofthe Court at West Bend, hoping that
speedy trial would alIay excitement, and
that BY the aid of military. the prisoner
might be conveyed, if convicted, to prison.
Two companies of troops were on duty and
surrounded the Jail and escorted the priso-
ner TO the Court House This was on
Tuesday Of last week. The Judge and
some Germans addressed the mob from the
Court House steps, whick allayed for time
the excitement, and then the Grand Jury
was charged and sent out abouttwo O'Clock
10 deliberate upon The indiog Of an indicl
meaL At three O'Clock the mob became
impatient, and the military evidently was
frstern;zing with the mob, when two A
mericans seized muskeGs from the soldiery,
and plated themselves before the prs-
oner. This created more excitement,
and the muskets were returned TO the mil-
itary. The indictment being found, the
trial was set down for the next morning
Wedncsday-,he prisoner was remanded
70 Jail. tbs civil officers took the prisoner
by the arms. the Two companies of military
surrounded them, aad ell started for the
jail. We noW give the words of The Sen
tiael.
So they advanced, the crowd coming af-
Ter, when, suddenly, rush was made By
not more than tDsRty Of tUeRty five men
upon the center of the line, and the troops,
sOitkOad a blOw straeE or a gun fired, or any
resistance whatever, (save by 1t. Beger, of
the Ozaukee company, who behaved well,)
fell back and abandoned the prisoner to the
fury of the mobl De Bar was instantly
felled 10 the ground; while lying, with his
face downward, be was struck by a large
stone upon the head, crushing in the skull.
while one iend, more brutal than the rest,
jumped with bis full force upon the man.
gled head The poor wretch was doubt
less dead from the blow of The stone. A
rope vas attached to his legs, and the body
dragged by the yelling demons some half
a mile, the garments being stripped from
the body as it went, and then, mangled and
bleeding, it was hung to tree, head down
wards.
There seems little room to doubt that if
the troops had acted like men, the result
would have been different; but there is
less room to doubt that nearly all the mill
tary sympatbised with or actually fraterni-
zed with the mob. Orders were given to !
the troops to bave no. intercourse with the
excited people, but to attend to their duty.
This they disobeyed, and most Of the troops,
as they were alternately relieved. left the
Court House, and went away to drink beer
with the rioters again and again. If this
is the sort Of men TO whom the military
equipments Of the State are intrusted, 10 be |
used for the peace of the State in just such
emergencies as this, the sooner it is under
stood the better; and the sooner the cor
receive is sFriied, the better.
When We add that the troops formed |
again after allowing the prisoner to be TAX
en- from them, and then marched along 10
abe tune of "Hail Columbia We have told
Che story.