Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-05-27
From the Granada (Miss.) Sentinel. I'd Inst
MIDNIGHT MURDER!
ONE MAN FLAYED ALlVE!!
Unprecedented Brutality.

The CITY was thrown into the
widest excitement Monday morn
last, at the recital of one OF the
most brutal murders ever recorded
in the annals of crime, which had
occurred across the Abetuponbouge
the night previous. In short time
the whole town was loud in the
denunciation of the deed, and could
the perpetrators have been known,
they would have met with summary
punishment at the hands Of an cut
ragged community. It seems that
on Saturday about midnight, some
one knocked at the door Of the
ferry Mr.. John Futhey, and
asked to be crossed over to the city
for the purpose Of securing the as
sistance of a physician. Pleas
Futhey opened the door, when he
was instantly seized by two strong
men and dragged out. In the mean
time three more men entered the
house and pulled John Futhey
from his bed by the legs, dragging
him out also. 1t appears thai out
of the five men who were all white,
one was disguised as an African
The two men were forcibly taken
along until the cross roads were
reached, when each party took a
different direction. AS soon as
Mr.. John Futhey was taken he
commenced to struggle with his
captors and made what feeble resis-
tance he could against them. Find
ing him determined the party of
assassins threw a looped rope
around the neck of the unfortunate
victim, and dragged him in this
manner about four hundred yards
when they commenced to whip and
otherwise abuse him until life was
extinct. The supposition is that
the whipping was done with a raw
hide. While this was going on, the
other parties held Pleas Futhey
securely in their hands about thirty
yards from where his brother was
being tortured AID forcibly made to
be a listener TO his lamentations
without being able to assist him.
After the brutal work was done the
party let Pleas go with theats tina,
if he ever divulged the names OF
any of the assassins they would
serve him like they had the brother
The deceased was an inoffensive,
weak old man, almost ready to step
in his grave. One whom the com
munity cared very little for, and 80
insignificant that none can con
lecture what brought on him such
terrible punishment. Some suppose
it must have been for his money, as
he is supposed to have had several
thousand dollars in gold hid away.
But we doubt this, because the
partieswho killed him, after the
murder was committed, made no
attempt to find the supposed treas
ure. Others believe that the parties
who murdered him, only intended to
chastise and let him 60, while still
1I,another conjecture:is that they in
tended to whip the secret of his
hidden treasure out of him, and, that
before they could do that the victim
died. The body Of the murdered
man shows that the whipping was
cruel beyond comprehen sion, and
that the sufferings inust have been
horrible. This is one OF the darkest
of all the mysterious assassinations
we have ever read of, and sounds
more like one of j. Frederick
Smiths "horrors" than reality
The military have arrested r., b
Chatham, Glen. Edger and Bot
Wilson, all men Of good character