Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-06
SPY SATURDAY., DECEMBE g. 1853

bone; he then choked her until she was in
sensible, and after efecting his hellsh pur-
pose of ravishing her, escaped from the house.
went home and to bed with his own colored
wife. His wife enquired why he painted so
remarkably, he tried to divert her attention
by saying that he had run all the way from
the river, where he had been hard to work
pumping out fiat boat.
Mrs. Morris screams having alarmed the
neighbors, they rushed in quick succession,
and learned Of the outrage by the appear
ance of things. Mrs. Ms tongue and throat
were swollen that she was so far exhausted
that she could not speak until she received
medical assistance. She then gave those pres
ent to understand that she did not know who
the william was, but in the struggle she had
scratched his face in such manner as to GER
tainly identify him. The circumstances point
ed out the negro, and the fact that he had
twice before committed or attempted rape,
once at 1ronton and afterwards in Rockville,
Ohio, determined the exasperaied crowd to
go Immediately to his house. They found him
in bed, with his face badly scratched and
bleeding, just as described by his victim.
They took him forthwith, before day, to Man
chester Island, and Island in the Ohio river,
just above the town, where they hung him up
to tree, but the rope breaking he revived.
and would have been hung up again but for
the interposition of some of the less excited
in the crowd, whose counsel prevailed and
the negro was accordingly taken to West
Union. lodged in Jail, and chained to prevent
his escape.
During Monday night Mr.. Morrison reach
ed home from Cincinnati. On Tuesday morn
ing, crowd of 50 men, with John Dougher-
ty Ga brother of Mrs. Morris) at their head,
left Manchester for the county seat, where
they broke open the jail, bursting the locks
with hammers and axes. On reaching the
room where the negro was, Doherty with one
blow from the axe broke his chain, aud then
raised the axe to cleave the negros SIX ull, but
the arm of the infatuated man was caught,
and the negro saved tol different death.
At the time, the Adams county Court of
Common Pleas was in session, attended by
probably 1000 persons, who were deeply in
terested in the trial of the Irishman Milligan,
who murdered old man Senter and his wife
about year ago. The mob spirit spread SO
rapidly that it was proposed to the Manchester
crowd to wait little, and if the Court should
not sentence Milligan to be hung, the mob
would then hang both together. But the
Manchester crowd were intent upon COM
pleting the work they had undertaken, and
being joined by several hundred men, took
the negro Bill back to Manchester, and over
the Island, where they hung him upon the
limb of tree, some % feet high. On his
way from Jail, and even under his gallows,
the negro cursed and swore terribly, and
vowed if he should get off alive he would kill
Mrs. Morris at sight. After hanging until he
was dead his body was cut down, and, with
the chain still fastened to him, deposited in
box and buried ON the Island.
AT West Union the jaler was absent when
the attack was made on the jail. But the
sheriff of the county rushed into the jail
with gun IN hand, and attempted to prevent
the rescue of the prisoner. The gun was
wrenched from him, and his power defed.
The law of Ohio Furnishes rape by confne-
ment in the penltentiary for twenty one years.
In Kentucky, rape by negro upon white
woman is punishable with death. 1t is the
opinion of some we have seen from the neigh
borhood, that if the law of Ohio had punish
ed with death, the mob would not have taxi
en- the negro from the jail to hang him the
second time.
Mrs. Morris is lying very i'll, and it is quite
doubtful whether she will recover from the
brutal treatment she received at the negro's
hands. The negros own wife was so shocked
with the horror of his crime, and his repeated
yillanies of the kind, that she did not even
beg the crowd to spare his life.-MaysuiUe
(Ky.) Eagle.