The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-10-01
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have told it sooner if she had known he
was safe in Jail, but feared for her life. .
There was great excitement in the great
crowd in and around the buiidir :, and
her statements were telegraphed to the
crowd in the street, and thence through
the country as fast as made, and people
began to come in wagon loads, only
stopping at Huntsville to learn all.
When Mrs. Schell was through testify
ing she desired to make Il statement.
She said she had lived IN fear of being
murdered for years; that he had rayisl-
ed a black woman, and told her Chis
wife) that if she ever mentioned it. he
would cut her throat with n razor when
she was asleep. She also said he burned
Mr.. Laughlin's old house and new one,
and come home and walked her up to see
the new one burn, and the next day he
made me take the children and go wish
him and call on the Laughlin's. She
said her mother told her when she mar
ried him that he was a bad man, and
she would rather follow her to the grave
than see her marry him.
When her statement was finished, the
cry was ''BeIIefOuntainm About 100.
boarded passing freight train, and then
began race of hundred teams to get
to Bellefountain, 6 miles, by the time
the freight train did, or as soon as posi-
bic afterwards, and all evening long,
wagon after wagon followed one another
on a mad run, each afraid they would
be too late. d
BY dusk Bellcfountain was crowded
with strangers, and it was an Oluinous
sign two hours alterward that most OF
them had gone, and no more wagons
came from the direction of Huntsville
But there vas still strong guard OF
strangers about the Jail to see that mo-
one left ii. People came in from other
directi )ns and = great many in town an
ticipating trouble, stayed on the streets.
About half past II the crowd tlIat had
gone ont and endorsements cane in,
arranged in squad No 1, carrying a rail-
road rail % feet long. At HEB they
were at the Jail door, when the leader
raped on the door and repeated three
times: Sheriff, open tie dGof. IRE GTeI
JOuHd to erecuie JUStice-
He then said: No. 1, 30 your duty, !
aud do it well, -" and squad No. l made !
a dash against the door with the rail !
road rail, bursting through and nearly !
knocking down Deputy Sheriff McCrack- f!
en, whom they Immediately guarded :
and searched. Sheriff Chandler was al
so captured in the same manner. Me
Cracken was searched twice and the
house overturned for the KEYS, but they
were not fOdnd. Sledge hammers and /
cold ohiseIs were brought into requisition
and the hinges knoCEed Of the first
door. IAN inch thick iron door, the lock
off the next. and then by chioel AMI
sledge, they worked their way through
padIocks and slides to the prisoner. /!
Their progress was slow, and was 30 mia
utes from time of bursting in the door
until they had the prisoner on tire store
box, under the tFeee ii tie soath euj .
corner of the court house yard. lie
WAS given time 10 pray or say what lac
wished, but he Only asked 10 be buried
by his LITTLE boy, and that word be sent
to his parents 10 Mil Rushes 7. o.,
Canada West, that he died an innocent
man. He came from Canada ten years
since. lived three years in Madison eoun
ty. in Big Darby Woods, near Column
bus. and since then here. When asked
if he knew anything OF Torrenee who,
mysteriously disappeared from Beiie
Centre some zine since, he said he did
not He said lie wanted no minister 20
attend him. He said his wife did the
deed, and lied to save herself, and that
he was innOcent that he had bought %
box Of candy aud given 20 Miss Laugh
lin some time since, and that bi- vile
was Jealous ana killed ECE. At 1888 q.
H., the box was XII .ked from under him,
after protecting Jhat he was innocent
and his wife the guilty Gle. 1t wes not
Till 80 minutes later that Or. GretcIeT
could pronounce iiliu dead, ti.s moose
having been tied IN "a bUns.!ng manner,
and the knot stopping under his chin,
but lac died very quietly, and the lynch
ers gradually i-it hiiE- Whon Deputy
E;Cracken heard in the afternoon ,iIstr
the crowd was coming - ilJug osI-I IL .
went and told him 20 tell II H. WAS guilty,
and il he was lie was ne would run him
off and hide him, and >-- that iie 20 -
a fair trial, but ! e protested that ile wss
innocent. Tie lvnchers lad their coats
turned and liandkerehi-is around their
faces, generally, but many were without
any disguise. Sixty or seventy five en-
tered the Jail. while the crowd outside
numbered 1000 or 1900
LATEK.-The hc:- found ~ tie s!ris
hand which was supposed 20 have -
longed TO Schell has been IounI 70 De G
ten 10 fourteen inches long. and I5iltrF {
Than ScbeITs hair, which Is only Soho !
eiy inches ia length. Tie woman ana >
Oldest child. aged seven, viii be e2aH.in- 4.
"a Monday. and we will give corrected !
edition TaesfIy morning IL
Threats are being made Of iynaa'h2
Mrs. scheIl, but we hope that better
will prevail. We trust she VIII
receive fair trial.