, 1875-10-23
4 Mob ,u Ohio.

y AS" u'l : SINCE mon IN Ono took man
three ont OF Jail and hanged him. Two CT
days after they began to doub. if the man
waS really guilty. The doubt came too lat .
to be Of any service to the victim, but it maf
cause the well-meaning men who composed
the mob some remorse of conscience 1t is
true, If the victim was guilty As charged. he
deserved death; but the cnormity Of that
| offence shoald not tell against him if he was
not guilty The story told against him vas
! Inconsistent and improbable. II true. the
man was proper subject for commission on
/ lunacy- II was said that this rnau-Scheu
1 by name-drUve out Sith his wife and the
daughter of his landIady. At the edge of a
[ piece of woods Schell left his horses with his
WIFE, and with the young lady. who accom-
/ panied him willingly, went into the woods 70
pick berries. IN an hour or 80 ScheII came
back alone. When questioned about the girl.
he replied that he had killed her. and gave
details Of the terrible deed. So savs Nrs.
SchelI who was holding the horses meanwhile.
Scheil then went to the girls father and re-
ported that she was lost The woods were
secured and Schell headed the search At
last the body of the girl was found The
manner of the murder corrcspondei with
that which Mrs. Schrll says her husband de-
scrIbed ON his return from the woods There
was no other evidence against Schell II
guilty, he received his deserts; but SchelI
had uo cause of emnity against the girl In
his last moments he said her father was the
b.st friend he had in the world The girl
went with him willingly into the woods, ap-
ptrently never u,iStruSting his design Mrs
Schrll fortIt"s her story with the assertion
that her husband had for months con template
cd an outrage upon the girl, and had confidcd
TO her his purpose. \ statement Of tins kind
wIil bear examination Men do not usually
coutde such purposes to their wives. Neither
DO wives keep such secrets for months, AMI
finally willingly accompany the proposed
victim 10 the place chosen for the sucrifCe
The whole story, Us related ly Mrs. ScheIl,
l. an Anomaly ia crime The woman, ON
whose evidence the man was hanged, had, If
the story bc true, Tor months withheld tho
fact OF hlS guilty purpose She thus becomes
| an OH .ct Ui suspicion. The probabilities are
against any wife kerpirg secret such pur-
linen 'sHe goes WIN them, and thus taertily
! lends her counteuance to the crime Tho
Ohio and Illinois papers are actively discus
sing the question Of the guilt or innocence Of
| S.hcli. The latest particulars are III the
Chicago htT- -Ooa1, and if true, leave little
! doubt # The innocence Of Schcu and tho
guilt of his wife. According TO this paper,
| three OF four long hairs were found clutched
in the fingers Of the murdered sirI, which
correspond with the hair Of Mrs. Schen
The sirl herself had light hair and of u fine
texture The hair found Ia the girl's hand
was coarse and dark. ScheIl's hair also was
light and much shorter than the hairs which
serve as witnesses Of the crime. II IL also
stated that Mrs. Schell, after teStifying
-,ainst her husband, was 50 overcome at the
sight Of his lifeless body that she became hys-
terical. The whole case furnishes an argu-
men: against lynch law. which should serve
this generation 10 prevent repctitious. The
New York HTald thus tcrsely points tho
mo~al:
LVNCH LAw.-Last week, IN Ohio, num-
ber of farmers, infuriated at the murder Of
a yunug girl IN the woods, broke open a iail,
took out Of it the man accused Of the mur-
der. End hanged him. The poor creature
had been accused iy his wife. He sOlemnly
denied IN his last moments having committed
the murder, and G--erted that his wife charged
hun b.cslEs- sh- was inzanely Jealous 0f him.
Now II turns ont that the man was innocent
Unfortunately he Il dead. Unfortunately
the men, who IN violation Of law hanged
him. are all murlerers Who ought to be
hanged IN their turn. Unfortunately they
Will all have the unpleasant conscIousness for
the r,st Of their lives that they are murder
er--not comfortable thought % most Of
them, probably. II L. scarcely necessary 10
pursue the thought further. Lynch law IL
always wrong; but this Is not all nine times
oat II ten the men who take the law into
their own hands hang the wrong man