Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-05-31
MOB LAW IN OHIO.
HANGING Of ALLEN, STORY. OR s1oata.
IN BATAVIA.
Tho Flight q tho HLf.strsnglsd, Bruised
and Bleeding Fugitive.

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The 7 o'clock train over the Little
Miami Road last night brn,ght down
from Milford the man William Allen,
sometimes known as St0rer, whose
life WIS attempted by a mob at Bata-
vim early Wednesday morning. A
Commercial reporter was at the depot,
and met the battered object Of the
mob's violence asd,e hObbled out Of
tho rcnr coach III best he could with
his bruised limbs. About llls neck,
directly under the chin, was q broad
and swollen welt where the moose
had pressed deep into the flesh. His
face was covered with bruises, and
there were rings around his wrists
where the skin had been torn off by
the cords with which his hands were
bound. One leg is 10 badly hurt that
1t is with difficulty that he can walk,
and he complains Of soreness and
stiffness through his whole body.
Finding that Allen was in d mood
to talk, our reporter drew him to one
side, and listened to his account Of
those terrible minutes which inter-
vencd between his being pulled from
his bed and thrown over the side Of
u bridge with u rope about his neck.
The mob, he says, came stealtl,ily
into tho hotel, and after disarming
the two men who were stationed in
tho hallway as u guard, broke into
the room adjoining his, in which q
plasterer, who was boarding ut the
Munson House, was sleeping. The
noise made in breaking into that room
and the frightened cries Of the plas-
terer, suddenly nwaking to find his
bed surrounded by masked armed
men, were the first intimation that
Allen had that there was anything
wrong. And even then it did not
occur to him until the door Of his
own room was forced in That he was
tho man who was wanted.
The door of the room was broken
in by single effort and before Allen
could raise up In bed the muzzle Of q
revolver had been placed close to llis
head, with IL threat that II he moved
a muscle his whole d---n head would
be blown Oft. The mob then quickly
surrounded the bed, and producing J,
rope, began to tie his arms and legs.
Allen struggled violently, and some
time elapsed before he was securely
bound. A moose was then placed
about his neck, and he was pulled by
it from the bed, when II seems to
have occurred to the mob, for the
first time, that the victim could not
walk with his legs tied together, and
the rope (Which had been adjusted
with 80 much difficulty was removed.
He was then led by the rope which
was about his neck, out on the street,
and down to the bridge over the east
fork Of the Little Miami river, two
squares away. He had nothing on
but his night shirt and drawers.
Having arrived at the bridge, the
rope was fastened to one Of the cross
pieces, and the moose frightened about
his neck. "Now, men, do your duty"
said the leader Of the gang, and the
next instant the shivcring object Of
their vengeance was picked up and
thrown over the railing of the bridge.
The rope was small, half an inch il,
diameter, and snapped the moment
Aliens weight fell upon it, and he
fell into the water, thirty-one feet
below. Three shots were fired, he
says, by the mob at the spot where
the water was heard to splash, and Il
dozen or more rocks were thrown.
He struck on his hands and knees,
and then on his face, on the rocks in
the bottom Of the stream, three feet
under water. Recovering his feet
again, he hobblcd to the shore to
avoid the stones which were being
thrown from above. He skulkcd along
in the shadow of the bank for some
distance, when he fell forward on his
face, overcome with sudden exllaus,
ton. 1t then occurred to him for the
first time That the moose was still
about his neck, and was drawn very
tightly. With some effort he sue
ceeded in loosening and removing it;
after which his strength soon came
back to him. He then wandered
along the bank Of the stream, and
over the fields in the Immediate vici.
nifty until he saw that daylight was
approaching, when he returned to the
village and entered ny the back way
the hotel from which he had been
dragged three hours before by an ex-
cited mob. At the door he met an
acquaintance who was just going out
to drag the river for the body Of
what was supposed to he the MUIR
dercd Allen. Through the day he
remained in bed, protected by a
guard, and yesterday morning, upon
being alraigned by Squire Temple,
was honorably discharged. At about
2 o'clock in the afternoon, when un.
observed by the crowd, he drove out
Of town by back street and over to
Milford, where the train was taken
for this city.
He says that the excitement at b.
tavia is intense, and that trouble il
imminent between the decent people
who have tried to befiiend him and
the men who formed the mob. He
will be here to-day, and tomorrow
will leave for st. Louis. 70 the
question whether he intends to seek
any legal redress for the wrong done
him he would give no direct reply
Many of the men who composed the
mob, he says, are known. Mrs
Atchley was Mahan previous to hel
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