The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-09-14
HORRIBLE CRIME.
OXFoRD, OHIO, THE SCENR-A VERY
RESPECTABLE LADY THE VICTIM
THE PERPETRAToR OF THE VILE
DEED KILLED BY INFURI ATEp CIT
IZENS.

Oxford was in terrible state of "x-
citemens Sunday. On Saturday, If
terboon Jim Garnett, colored, a resi-
dent Of the place, aged twenty five
yeas and Of bad character. went to
the house of Perry Kingery, white
man, living about one and u half miles
southeast of town, knowing that Mr.
kingery was absent, and committed a
rape upon Mrs. Kirgery, who is one of
the first families OF the county.
The lady's husband was notified,
and soon after the brute Garnett was
arrested and placed in he calaboose.
Early Sunday morning Mrs Kingery
identified Garrett as the man guilty of
the outrage She attempted to shoot
Garnett but was prevented. Garnett
was locked in a cell, while Kingery's
friends kept close watch, declaring
their intention to hang him. A large
and excited crowd, thoroughly in sym
pathy with the victim of the brute's
lust. were present.
At one o'clock the relatives broke in,
to the building and dragged the priso
ner from the cell, calling for a rope,
but the marshal coming. some one shot
the negro, and the men rushed out and
stood arc un1 waiting for news of hi;
death. The wound was slight, the bal
entering on the right of the spinal col
umn and lodging in the right hip.
Another attempt was made about
four o'clock to kill Garnett, but il
failed.
PARTICULARS OF THE KILLIG OF GAR
NETT BY THE MOB MONDAY.
Sunday evening, when Sheriff
Thomas with his posse arrived, some
one, thinking Garnett was about to be
removed to Hamilton, shouted. Boys,
do your duty!' Immediately men
came running from all parts Of :he
town, and the space around TIE build
ing was packed with men. Nothing
was attempted, but the men remained
ready for any emergency all Right.
At halfpast eight Monday morning
Mrs. Kingery, heavily veiled, with her
husband and a large body Of men,
came to the Town House The crowd
was so great that it was impossible to
get any ways near the justice room.
Owing to the absence of some of the
prisoners witnesses, the trial was post
poned until 1 p. III. The general APP
pearance of the crowd did not indicate
as much excitement as on Sunday.
There was not as much talking or ges-
ticulation, and every one thought the
law wouli be allowed to take its course,
and no fvrther violence be attempted.
Atabout eleven o'clock the town was
startled with a wild, swelling shout.
The climax had come. Kingery I'D
the crowd to the door and shouted ::
"Boys, for the sake of my poor wife, |
want vengencer' Kingesy kicked the
door that separated their victim from
them. immediately stones were heav
ed against it, but an entrance rot be
ing effected, a sleGge was used and the
door soon demolished. The negro,
terrified, tried to escape by running
into side room (for the cells had been
broken Sunday, and he was in the
entrance, but he could not evade the
MOI. They found him there. A blow
from a heavy sledge knocked him sens
less, and three bullets through the
head forever silenced Jim Garnett.
The body was dragged outside the
with the intention Of hang
ing it up, but it was not done Some
one fired another bullet into the body,
and then they left it for the Coroner.
So ended the life of Jim Garne,t and
the work of an excited mob.