The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-04-06

alone. I knew I wasn't going to die
them I had no notien of doing any,
thing of The kind.
: would live on in spite of them:
Moorehead objected TO me remaining
there; SO Daniel Muma said he would
keep meat his shouse, and took me
there in nsleigh.Many of them still
cried, Lynch himl Lynch! himl' but
I cared mighty little about the lynch
for L knew none of them had stand
enough to- 0-se@~At@Mnma,s-the
carried me in and put me on a truni
die bed. DIR Lindsey commenced to
dress my wounds. l had eaten moth
ing all this time and was very weak
People tame there with ropes and re-
v%olvers, and taunted and threatened
me in every possible way. lIwis then
SC helpless that ( couldn't move
Drs: Lindsey, Strahl, Mcpherson, and
Mcconnell came on Sunday t dress
my wounds; I had refused before to
let them do SO, and SO, and still re.
fused. They said they would do so
anyhow. They put fourteen stitches
in my neck, and fixed the wound in
my breast Esquire Perkins held a
trial, asked me if 1 was guilty. 1
don't know what I said then, butI
guess 1 plead guilty to the charge
They asked me if I was able to go to
my brothers house. I thought they
wanted to find out whether 1 was
able to travel or not, so that they
might commit me to jail, and | said
no. On Monday my heart began to
%autter, and Igrew quite faint. Nh.
Grimes took the dressing from my
wound, when about a pint of blood
spi:t,d out! I grew easier then and
went to sleep. AT times the people
would pray and sing with me; at 9TH
er times the people tried to pump
me about murder. During Wednes-
day, Thursday, and Friday. my pulse
run as high as one hundred and forty
The physicians thought 1 couldn't live.
Mr.. Fox came up ON Thursday, when
we had quite a talk about the murder
of the girl. I asked hin if he wasn't
sorry he had Ibroken the promises he
had made, and he. said before all OF
them, ,(the people, that he was
though he denied'ever having prom;s
ed the girl to me. On Sunday after
the murder, DR.. Strahl requested me
to make a~confessioh. toldhim some
things, butt don't. remember of Civ
ing him anything of Importance. 1
didn't care much then what I said,
and gave what I did in a perfect reck-
less manner-except about the MUIR
der, which l was afraid to- confess!
On the same day a man named Smith
came to the house, and said he knew
1 was a married man; and swore it by
the Bible. So he told q .smalhone,'
tor have never been married My
overcoat was at MI. Foxs. DIR. Lind
sey sent for it three times; but Fox
refused to give it up, claiming that I
had sold it to him. Finally he sent
it, with some other things, which he
claimed he should keep in lien of q
board bill, which he said I was owing
him. sltred Logged, constable, and
Jimmie Mckay, the nurse. brought
he down to Belmont County Jail.
They first took me to Hendrysburg,
Oh a sled; there, they allowed, the
people weul4 lynch me. From there
Jonathan Fox brought me downing a
large covered spring wagon At
Morristown a squad threatened to
hang me, but they hadn't the grit.
When we arrived at St Clairsville, a
crowd .soon gathered around CRYING;
hang him! hang him!! hang
him !!H But I was safe under the
charge of Sheriff Hays: