The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-10
MOST HORRIBLE.
An Unparalleled Case OF Crime
and Lust The Offender
Hanged bV n Mob,

and Lust The Offender
Hanged by a Mob.
Last Thursday a murder was COM
mi tied in the vicinity OF New Richmond,
Ohio, by man who gave the name OF
Geo. Williams, but whose real name has
since been found to be George Mangrum,
native OF Alexandria, Ky, village
which lies about thirteen miles back
from the Olio River and among the hills
Of Campbell County.
The killing followed close upon the
heels OF the brute's lust. The victim
was Mary Hooper Bennett. who by the
plausible representations OF Mangrum
was induced to accompany him last
Thursday to his farm, about three miles
below, in the neighborhood oI Pond Run;
mis- wife being sick, he said, he needed
some help about the house.
Placing a few articles OF wearing ap-
parel in a hand-basket the woman and
Mangrum sat out, on foot, for the place
esignated. At about O'clock, the same
evening, the man came into the village
bringing with him Mary's basket and
pair of snoes. A second victim to Man
grum's brutal lust was country girl,
aged eighteen years, named Amanda
Abbott, who, like Mary Bennett, was
poor, and wiling 10 work that she might
help her parents.
| Between II and II O'Clock Of the day
following Friday ne presented himself
| at the humble residence OF Elisha Alb
bott, and by similar representations as
in the Bennett case, succeeded in gain
ing Miss AUboUt's consent to go with
lI,, Ia; f,r. IA hiah 10 inlA n
Gated In the vicinity of Parkers Acad
emy. When the couple had reached 8
secluded part Of the country on theil
Tourney, Mangrum seized the frightened
girl By the throat, and throwing hel
upon the ground, satiated mis- tiendlsl
lust; with threats OF instant murder
should she make an outcry, the Wretol
compelled her to remain with him from
noon till nearly O'Clock.
Finally he lett her. When In pitiabl'
condition and half dead with the treat
ment received, she staggered home ant
dropped insensible at her fatner's door
Soon after her story was related to he
parents, and the demon, who had with
strange and unaccountable fatality, re
turned to New Richmond, was arrested
In a saloon and locked up in The Tow
Hall.
An excited crowd Immediately sui
rounded the Jail, and rendered furiou
by addresses made by the leaders OF tn
mob, the barriers of his prison wer
swept away, and the wretched crimina
was dragged, trembling, from his cei
and hanged to tree, just outside Q
town, on Ashburn's Hill.
ri The body was buried on the rive
bank. In the meantime the anguish G
Mary Benefits parents was terrible
Search was at once instituted afte
learning of Miss Abbotps story, but nC
+ until yesterday morning was she founG
= In a ravine In a wood on the farm OF D.
n McMicken and near the residence OF Jt
seph Corbly, the hunting party descrie
= ali that remained OF poor Mary Bennett
q She was dead.
e Her head was lying up hill, the righ
= side of the lace resting on her arm; he
s feet were bare; her dress and bonne
o TWO hundred yards away. Her jaw wa
:. broken, her neck dIslocated, and ever
5 portion OF her body marked Uy brutalit.
5 Taking 1t up tenderly the body wa
y borne to the residence ot Mr.. Hoope
J, ner stepfather, and then to the Al.
:, hurch, from whence the funeral toe
place Yesterday afternoon.
IL now transpires that Mangrum ha
enyaged two other girls to go to b
II Gus !, a Miss Gatman and Miss SloI
- Tucre is but one feeling in New Ric
e mond in reference to the terrible afal
u and that IS, that the lustful demon u
). not die a moment too soon.