The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-12

The End of the Tragedy.-We last
week published an account of the violation
and murder of young girl named Secore, by
some devils in human shape. 1t appears that
soon after the discovery of the remains, sus-
picion fell upon three men named Alexander
McLoud, Jacob Kimble and Absolom Kimble,
(the murder occurred on the Kimble farm,)
and they were arrested. Public indignation
was SO great, at the attrocious crime, that
threats of lynching had been made previous
to the arrest, and fears were entertained that
ed those fears were will appear from the re-
suit A special to the Cincinnati Gazette says
that at an early hour on Monday morning
last, people began to arrive in Celina, where
the prisoners were incarcerated, until about
5000 were assembled, when they surrounded
the jail, took forcible possession of the jailor
and dispossessed him of the keys, and after eff
fecting an entrance to the cells took therefrom
the three prisoners and removed them, under
strong guard, to wagon. The Kimble farm
where the shocking crime was committed, is
twelve miles away, and to this place the de-
termined crowd announced their determine
ton to remove the prisoners, and there exc
cute the sentence which an outraged commu-
nifty had pronounced. The procession moved
off quietly and orderly.
A later dispatch TO the GGzette, says:
at appears that the vigilanters were desir-
Gus of executing them near the scene of the
terrible outrage, so they repaired to the Kim
BILE farm, in sight of the place where the poor
young girl had been violated, murdered, and
thrown to the hogs. Here they halted under
sapling, rude gallows was improvised, and
the three prisoners fitted with halters about
their necks. AT this juncture Elias Secore,
brother of the murdered girl, appeared, and
pleaded with the crowd for the life of Jacob
KimBle, the youngest prisoner, seventeen
years old, expressing his doubts as to his par
ticipation in the affair. This appeal was re-
ceived with cheers, and young Kimble was ex-
empted from the sentence, which the people
had passed upon ali. But the other two were
doomed. Absolom Kimble was much broken
down, but McLoud maintained the same sto-
ical indifference that he has shown from the
first. He maintained stoutly that he had new
er seen the girl, and accounted for the blood
on his clothes by a bleeding nose. He took
Testament, kissed it, and called on God to
attest his innocence. He implored them to
have mercy on his poor mother and sisters,
and asked God to forgive them all.
Absolom Kimble adhered to his confession,
made the day before, to the effect that after
returning from Church Sunday June 23d,
McLoud asked if any girls went west, and
when Jacob KimbIe said several, they all
went in that direction, until they came to the
place where the girl was murdered. Each
violated her person once, and McLoud the
second time, after which McLoud knocked
her in the head with heavy stick. This was
about midday. They went to the Kimble
House, and at night McLoud told them he had
been back to the place and that she was moi
dead, but that he had killed her.
The two were hung. The younger Kimble
was returned to jail The father of the Kim.
bles was warned to leave the country within a
specified time, and the terribly tragic scene,
almost unparalleled in this part of the coun-
try, was ended"