, 1870-04-21
TRAGEDY AT WHITEHALL, ILL.
Murder and Threatened Lynclains.

From. the Jaet-pnri1ie thy Journal
o. Saturday afternoon the people &C White
hall and it's immediate vicinity were tnrt,xn
into fever Of excitement hy the cold-tlnodod
snnr,lar Of Sir. ballad. a well-knowu citizen
of tirat locality. The particulars, obtained
frons gentleman on the spot, were Is fol-
lows.-
Biz. Ballad is farmer residing atout one
and half niles trom Whitehall: On Friday
last man giving lis name AZ pavis. and +
stranger IN thorc parts, hired to him IL farm
labarer, engaging to DO al! such ,snr3 ~ cou3l
bc foan,l for him II do about the promises
On Saturday morning lie accompanied his
SmrlSser to , t,e ti,ns, ms, too, to enSa:s G;,:s
between the two men will perhaps never be
known; Init certain it is, tha. rl,ort time af-
terw.1l Me- Ballad was discovered viii, his
head cleft through tie centre by an a1a-
After the commission VI this deed Dssid
walked into Whitehall, proceeded 70 :he hotel
where he put up When lie first arrived III that
town, and Ntote u1t!er Lis name, - Vengeance
is row satisfied; ;IeaHo do NOT erase tlls ratnn
untd it il published" From the first rart nf
this inscription it is believed that s.'uia old
Registered a. from, Ohio, and lc d ti,,c;ion il
that he visited Whitehall and engHl:ttl his a.r-
vices AZ lie did for the express pur{s'se Of
wreak,ng Eehgeancn On Mr.. Enllad for Eonao
real or fanciet' wrong reccived at l.s hands
After visiting the hotel he gay+. himself into
c11s.u.sy. and Was hidden away by 1tu officials,
ElA' feared That the murder wurJi hc uoisga
abroad aud tho asc3stin lync!1el Iy Z mob, bc-
fore the afternoon train, on which he cunhl ssa
taken 20 Carrcllton for Imprisonment, sliould
nrrivc. No search WAS made 'or him up to
that time, but when tho train aS1ived, anil tho
officers had conducted hiuI to within a short
distauce Of the dcpot,a rush was made for him,
and il vas with the gre a,est :Eou!ae that ha
could be thr11et into e-aonse-car and
armed men atatiunetl on GuaId before the ek-
cited mob seized hiu,-
1t seems that tho news CT the murder had
spread like vild-ti1a, and uD.n from all dlrec-
tiDns rushed into Vii ,tellal, determined to Ia
tcscept the akaaesi1 should be- attempt to
eecape Oh the after noon Iaiu- Only tho de-
tezmained stand Of t 4e ofs:eers of the law pre-
vented then, from akiuG him from tho car in
which he was cuntir led aud hanging him on tho
epot. Tho tr2iu st emet1 on the point Of start
ing, and to rreven tLis. men n'npranG upon tho
carr and turned on the brakes With all their
might. thus EDO ctualy bclding it in check
clnmosed around the c.7 WHICH held tho assas-
sin-~-scason se cmed to have lost its
sway, aud wild thirst for vengeance
taking posss selop " the hundreds
gathered there I:at the odi:er7 did their
duty wen, and Though II was impossible to
move the train they boldly maintained their
ground, and t1l reatr:.ed 10 rlaE,t aowa the first
man who Hhon til attempt to rass by them into
tie car Pres ,ntlr the nor:hcz.,-bonnl train
oanc ur: and 70 thoroughly was the track be-
s1esed, the er gi1,tur could uot get Past the
station until more tisan fifteen minutes past
lHs TINT II se OTTER train dh1 not succeed in
getting AVA. FROM. the mob until SOME two
hou1s attes it sLoull have LIFT. At the e1pi-
ration Of u is time Wiser cuunsels prevailed.
ton.