The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-12-07

From the Adams County (0hio) Democrat, Nov. ~
On Friday night the house OF Mr. Israel Norris of Man
chester, broken into during the absence OF Mr. NJ
The person OF hrs Morris (who alone with two nall
inanis) was vioisted the moet shocking When
discovered mornpp by the cries OF the children 1t
found that her jaw dsocatcd and otherwise In
ured TO such an extent as to render her eatrey helpless
when sufficiently recovered speak she said that in tho
conflict she had scratched the lip Of asauer that
II bed freely This led to the arrest OF brute negro
named Bill Terry, who bore tue mark upon his lip. An
inurated mob took him TO Q ne,ghboripg tree and
swung him By the neck until ne confessed. He then
sent West Union end confined but the husband Of Mrs.
H. returning and learning the particulars OF the crime,
bis friends went West Union forced the jail
and returning with the negro, swung him upon the limb
From the Maysvile (Ky,) Eagle, Nov. AL
Ono OF tho most horrible ouragcs Of mo kind w.s com
mted IN tho town Of Manchester, Adams county, ohto
about twelve miles above this city, on Sunday morning
lait, ut two o'clock iree;negro, named Ba effected
his entrance into the house OF Mr. Norris who was at
the time absent Cincinnati by lining out the sash Of
bach room window he CROPPED his way Ia the dark 70
the next room, where Mrs Morris was asleep and reach
cd her bedside before phe awoke She inquired the In
truder her husband, but upon the negros replying
"yee," she screamed and sprang out OF the bed Bill
her mouth. which be cluched violently fracture
her Jaw bone. He then choked her until she insen
her escaped rom The house went home and TO bed With
his colored wife. His vile nquiring why he pantod
20 remarkably he tried TO divert her attention by saying
that he had run all the way from the river where be
bad been bard nj work pumping out . lat boat.
Mrs. Morris screams having alarmed the neiEhbors,
hey rushed in In quick succession and learned Of tho
outrsge by the appearance Of things, for Mrs Norris
tongue and throat we're 90 swollen and she was 10 far
exhausted that che could not speak until abe received
medical assistance She then gave those present to
dcssnd Inst abe did not know who the villain but
thai 10 the struggle she scratched his face In such man
ncr as 10 certainly identity him.
The circumstances pontd out the negro, and the fact
that be bad twice before committed or attempted rspe-
mined the exAspersed crowd 20 INN sds,ey TO bis
house. They found him In bed with his face badly
scratched and bleeding Just IS described By his victim
They took him fo hwitn before day 10 Manchester L.
land IN island In the ohio river just above tho town.
where they hung him up 70 es, but the rope breaking
he Tell and revived He then acknowledged tho internal
deed and would have been hung up again but for
ttrpcsiion OF some OF the less excited In the csowd
whose counsel prevailed and the prisoner according.
" tai en- 10 ives, Union lodged JAIL and chained 70 pre-
Duripe Monday Nah, Morris reached home from GIN
cnnsu. On ufsdsy morning q crowd Of any nine men,
with John noughery "a brother OF Mrs Morris at their
bead Jeff Manchester for the county seat they
the JAIL bursting the locks With hammers and
On reaching the room where the negro was Dougneriy
win one blow IRON broke his chain, and then
rsned The axe cleave the nesros skull but tho Of
he Bfufsied man was caught and the negro saved for
Al the time tho Adams county Cour, Of Common Pleas
was session, attended by probably thousand
sons who deeply interested In the trial Of the Irish
man Nllsan who murdered the old man senier and his
The mob spirit spresd so rapidly tina, was proposed
the S na a,oa. 70 ssn hanging ssa ,S
mob would then hang both together. But the Msa.
chester crowd was intent upon completing tho
work they bad undertaken ant being joined by several
hundred men, took the negro Bill back 10 Manchester
and 10 the Island, where they hung him upon the
limb OF a tree some twenty i've feet high.
On his way from jail and even under his gaows the
ntgi cursed and terribly and vowed he got on
alive, he would XIII MRS Norris a. sight Ater h,ngng
until he dead, his body cut down. and with the
chain l fastened 70 lin, Deposited In box and buried
on the island
Al West Union the Tailor was absent when tho attack
made on the jail. But the Sheriff Of tho county
rushed into the jail with gun Ia hand, and attempted to
the OF the prisoner The gun was
IRON him and his power deHed.
Mrs. Morris IA lying very ILL., and II IL quite doubtful
whether che viii recover from the brutal treatment she
received ut the ncgros hands Fho negYo's wife
shocked with tho horror OF bis crime bis
vspes OF The kind that she did not beg the I'd
10 spare hk lie.