The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-18
The LATE TRAGEDY IN WISCONSIN.
More Anon.

Details Of the Murder, Arrest and CoRcie.
fioR Of Debar-Ereitement Amongst tie
PeoPle-Lgnck Lao tn wisconsin,
DisgraoefN fNl bdrbarity of the Mob
-DsBar'S Head smashed
pih Stone-Drag-
9ea through tie
streets and Hung
By his Heels.
The following extract gives the details OF
the late fiendsh murder in Wisconsin ta-
ken from the Milwaukee papers:
IA young man by the name of George
Debar, who, recently been laboring for
different farmers in the vicinity of Trenton
and West Bend, Washington county, is the
murderer. He has lately been at work for
Christian Young, deputy Sheriff of the
county, and few days before had worked
for John Meyer, neighbor of Mr.. Young.
Last Wednesday night after finishing work,
he went away from Mr.. Young's house,
saying that when he came back he would
lodge in the barn, and not trouble the in.
mates Of the dwelling to admit him into the
house.
During the evening he called nt the house
of Mr.. Meyer, saying he would like the
money for his labor done few days
previous. Mr.. Meyer, said he had money
enough, and if he would sit down he would
go and fetch II. After the money was Civ
en- him by Meyer from package of about
800, Debar asked him fora drink of wa.
ter. Mr.. Meyer told him that he had none
in the house that was fresh, and that the
spring was a long way from the house
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give him mug of beer, and Immediately
went to fetch 1t from the cellar, which was
entered by trap door.
As Meyer came up, Debar dealt him q
blow just as his head appeared above the
trap door which Frustrated him to the eel.
lars bottom. Mrs. Meyer, seeing her hus.
band thus struck, ran Tor the woods to call
neighbor The murderer chased her arm
ed with knife, and overtaking her, aimed
q stab at her neck, cutting her head hull
off A small boy set up q cry, but Debar
rendered him senseless with blow, and
rfied the house and fred it.
In the mean time, Meyer, having recov-
cred from the effects Of the blow, came out
of the cellar and ran for assistance, while
Debar was trying to throw the boy into the
flames
"OE the arrival of assistance the mur-
derer was gone. Mrs. Meyer had been d.
bic to crawl from the building, aud the boy
was drawn from the fire in a shoskingly
burned condition. The woman has since
died. and the boy is in dying state. Mr..
Meyers wound was not so serious as to
cause apprehensions.
This wholesale murder was committed
for the purpose of obtaining $40 Should
not death be the punishment of the miscre-
ant who for the love of gold would slaugh-
whole family! The murderer was arrest.
ed in this city about o'clock last evening,
He protests his innocence. He will proba-
bly, be taken to Washington County to-day"
1t will be recollected that the death pen
altyi Wisconsin has been abolished.
The following from the Milwaukee News
gives the closing scene 10 this disgraceful
tragedy:
THE MURDERER.--Mobl law has triumph.
ed, and the murderer DeBar has been sent
to answer for his crimes by the hands of an
infurated people. Despite the military
force, despite the laws which have been
trampled under foot, he was torn from the
hands OF justice, and deprived of his life,
almost instantly. We lay briefly before
our readers the record.
The case, as was anticipated, came up
yesterday afternoon. Judge Larrabee charg-
ed the Grand Jury briefly, and with his usu-
al ability. They retired and after ses-
sion of more than an hour brought in an in
dictment against the prisoner for wilful
murder. While the Grand Jury were in
session, several attempts were made to
break through the guard of soldiers that sur
rounded the Court House, and forcbly seize
the prisoner; the attempt proved failure.
Contrary to all expectations DeBar on
being arragned plead, not guilty. He was
it is understood induced to put in this plea
by the advice of his counsel, although he
had previously made confession of his
guilt. The Judge Immediately directed the
Sheriff to return the prisoner to Jail to await
his trial. The Sheriff with his assistants
started with. the prisoner, surrounded by
the military No sooner, however, had he
got outside of the door, than the excited
mob made rush, and overpowering the
military and officers, struck the prisoner on
the head with a stone, which knocked him
senseless, he was then seized by the infu-
rated people, who beat him with clubs
and jumped and stamped upon his body un-
til life was nearly extinct, then tying rope
to his heels. they dragged him the distance
of half mile, and hung him by his heels
to tree, where he was hanging at O'Clock
last evening. ..
This fearful tragedy is without parallel
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ful thing for the people to take the law in
to their own hands, and although Debar
has perhaps deserved the fate he has re-
ceived, we hold that the laws however in.
sufficient may be, they should be upheld
and respected by one and all.
The mob, we understand, numbered more
than two thousand, and the military force
not numbering one hundred, were power
less when attacked by this maddeHed crowd.
All was done that could be to prevent this ter
rible issue; but in spite of all, it has come,
and we trust now that it has come, it " i'll
be the means Of preventing any more of
such horrible and heartrending butcherieS
in our State, as that committed by the
murderer Debar.
We have learned since writing the above,
that when DeBar was strung up by the
feet, he exhibited signs Of life, and moved
his head backwards and forwards; he must
have suffered the most excruciating agony.
The stone which struck him knocked his
skull all in. The spectacle must have been
shocking.
Allen Trimble Accepts the NOmin.
alton Of the 9th inst.