The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-03

mouth OF the river, took boat 10 fark-
ersburg, where they safely landed their
prisoners in the Wood county
Jail, after week of anxious
flight and Conceslment. Several
weeks passed and the excitement
in KanswhS county apparently died
away TO the extent that it was deemed
safe to bring back both prisoners for
hearing, which was done They were
arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and mo-
tion was made for q change OF venue in
both cases to an adjoining county. This
the Judge took under advsement, indi-
eating that he would decide the motion
Oh the following day, but be never got
the opportunity TO announce his decision.
IL was rumored during the afternoon
that the application would be granted,
and before nightfall the column OF venge-
ful miners was again in motion, march
ing with step as steady and certain as
death upon their victims. 1t Is a curious
fact that as the miners marched upon the
jail, they encountered q body OF negroes
organized for the purpose OF taking out
and lynching an lrishman named Hines,
who was confined in the same jail upon
a charge Of numbering negro shOems-
ker named Dooley, and finding that
their purposes were similar and their
interests were common, the white lynch
ers permitted the black lynchers to fall
IN and march Ill the rear of their col
umn. The Jail was soon reached, and
this time yielded up the objects OF the
murderOus search. a few well-dlrected
blows with sledges, wild rush, and the
three prisoners-Dawson, Estep and
Hines-were in the hands OF their cap
tors. And then began funeral process
sion which defes description. 1t having
been decided to hang Dawson and Estep
on the bridge where Lee met his death,
the regrOes concluded TO hang Hines 1T
the same place, and so the procession,
bearing its pale and livid victims, started
back, while torches lit up the passionate
and grimv faces OF the mob, and hor-
rible imprecatIons rent the air. During
the Journey Dawson regained his nerve
and cursed Estep ard Hines for their
cowardicc. lie called repeatedly Tor In
dividuals in the crowd whom he deted,
and said that if knife were furnished
him he would fight the crowd single
handed and alone. At last the bridge
was reached, and here another incident
took place which illustrates the cool
savagery Of the white lynchers. The
negroes wanted to swing Hines from the
bridge, IS well as Dawson and Estep;
but the whites swore that they would not
have any further connection with the
negroes in the lyncbing, and SO the
Elhiopians were compelled to 60 little
further up the road and hang their vic
tim, while the Caucasians fastened theirs
to the timbers of the bridge and left
them swinging directly over the spot
where Lees body had been found on
Christmas morning, Just one month
previous to the date OF the scenes last
above described. As in the case Of the
lynchngs before mentioned there was no
Investigation or attempt in tins one to
punish the lynchers Tor their bloody
work.
OTHER THIRD DISTRICT LrNCHERs.
The example o. this bloody work seems
to have been contagious. for we find dur
ing the same year no less than three
more lynchings in the same Congres.
slonal district, or six, with the last three
described.
The Jail at Winfield, in Putnam coun-
ty, was broken open by a mob, and u man
named j. ohm T. Cox, an alleged horse
thief, who had shot two Of his pursuers,
Marshal Ike Mitchell and Deputy 7. Z.
Turner, of Huntington, was dragged out
and hanged.
A. d. Williams, who was arrested on a
charge of killing German, named
Meeh.lng, in CabelI county, was hanged
by n mob within sight OF the
body OF his victim, and the crowd
was only deferred from hanging
Lizzie Meehling, wife of the murdered
man and the alleged parsmour OF his
murderer, by the fact that no one WAS
willing to put the rope around the neck
of a woman. She is now serving lie
sentence in the State penitentiary st
Moundsvilie The last of these Third
district lyncbings wss that Of negro,
who was hanged by a mob at Hunting.
ton, the terminus OF the Chesapeakeland
Ohio railroad on the Ono river, and
from all we can learn Of this case an IN
nocent man was sacrificed to the fury OF
a set Of maddeued miscresnts. The crime
with which be was charged was the out
rage of child, but it subsequently, ap-
pssred that the hurt Of the little one
which induced the suspicion of outrage
was the result of simple accident tor
which the negro was not to blame. In
all these cases no attempt was made to
punish the lynchcrs.