The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-26
QUICK RETRIBUTIoN.
THE OHIO OUTRAGE


THE OHIO OUTRAGE.
THE RETRIBUTIoN MELTED OUT TO TRAMP
AT URBANA, oHIo-THE SCENES AT THE
HANGING BY A MASKED MOB.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
quirer, on the 10Th inst, gives fuller partic
ulars of the hanging of the tramp Ullery
who mad committed beastly outrage on a
little daughter Of Mr.. ]. b. Morgan, of Ur-
bana, o. OF the crime and the manner of
Ullery's arrest, the telegraph has given the
facts. On the night of his return to Ur-
bsna, the writer says, the town hall bell
tolled.out the welcome news that Ulery was
in the county jail. Early in the morning he
was escorted -tnrough an immense crowd
into the court house. The determined
sheriff still wonders bow he ever
managed to get the villain alive
through that surging mass of
fierce men to and from the Jail, even with a
strong force of special constables. Strong
hands clutched at him in every direction:
broad-shouldered fellows tried to shove
their way among the guards, and take their
chances of dragging the shuddering wretch
out among the crowd, who waited silently
in the grim hope of tearing him limb from
limb. One stalwsrt Irishmsn laid his
felon's sensual face, but was
dragged away ere he could repeat
the blow. In the court house the father of
the outraged child covered the criminal
with revolver, and but that friend
wrenched the weapon from his weak hand
just in time, Ullery's days might have been
ended then and there. He was offered
counsel and refused. confessing again the
heart sickening details OF his crime before
the concourse of msddened people. II
was fearful struggle to get him
SON adopted the excellent ex
pedient of swearing in every man who
showed any anxiety 20 get at the prisoner,
as a special constable, Ito maintain the
peace aud dignity of the state of Ohio" So
they got him Into his cell, shaking in every
limb like a hunted and captured animal,
and whining, 80. don't kill me! pray don't
kill mel for Gods sake don't kill me-" That
was Thursday morning, and on Thursday
night, about IL o'clock, lyncbers entered
the court house yard, at least three
hundred strong, and all masked.
They were a mere unorganized mob,
however, surging, raging and swearing
with tut a leader. Ere they had demanded
the prisoner twice Sheriff Ganson suddenly
flung open the Jail door, and facing the
crowd, with heavy Colt revolver in each
hand, exclaimed: 81 give you all just five
minutes 10 clear the yard" And they all
cleared. You see no man had ever been
lynched in that town, or hung in Cham
paign county for
MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY,
and they didn't know the right way to |
manage such matters. But there was one
man in town that night who did know a |
good deal about lynch law and vigilance |
and who was not with that |
crowd on Thursday night. That man is
Fernando Stone, now hardware merchant
on North Main street, formerly miner and |
an influential man in the far West. Stone
is man of great size and strength, and was
for years the captain of a vigilance commit
tee in Montana, who hung men on the most
approved scientific principles. 1t is not
absolutely certain, bat it is pretty gen.
orally believed that Fernando Stone
was at the head of the Sunday morning
moyement-one of the bsst organized affairs
of the kind on record. Nobody supposed
on Saturday evening that any efforts would
be made to take the prisoner from his CELL
The sheriff went home early, for his little
daughter was dangerously i'll; but he left
orders to keep watch ali night at the Jail,
and TO send for him if any thing should
happen. Ullery was placed in a strong iron
cage within an upper front room
in the southeast corner OF the Jail, and that
room had double doors-the inner
one of heavy iron bars, the outer one of
massive oak boards, iron bound. with i'm
mense locks. The jailor's family slept below,
and the guards watched above in a room
n04t Ic Ine pflslOutI = CSil. lbs SkreelS were
sheets of ice that night, the sky clear and I
frosty and the town perhaps, unusually quiet
after she recent excitement. BY III O'Clock
lights were OUT ell over Urbana, save the
solitary CLEAN OF, g lamp in the room where
the jsilor, with three guards kept watch
over worthless life. When the tOwn-clock
boomed out midnight the moon was very
clear; and
THE sLEEPJEss PRISONER
may have Ven abietso look from his win
low o. public square, some hundred {
ysrr ;, With the gigantic figure of its
soldier-sentinel casting a gnomon-
wv on the great white disl-plaLe OF the ,
Iuare below. The shadow iengthened aud :
enlightened till the fantastic Silhouette
Of the bronze soldiers bead streSched TO the I
very curb. stone Oh Che square on the east, /
md was broken up by an irregular patch Of /
iarkness by the heaped-up ice in the frozen r
,utter. The clock struck 2 about thattime; v
md watchman, Levi Durham, passed 7
Oy the court house to the square. His {
solitary, StslwaTt figure might have made S
he prisoners heart beat more easily, for he i
now saw in the policeman only a protector. C
The figure crossed the square and got its v
shadow horribly mixed up with the shadow il
# the brass soldiers and finally disappeared h
around the opposite corner, trailing its 8