The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-23
a Gay I.othaTIo severely Dealt win

a Gay I.otharIo severely Dealt with.
BATAVIA, Ohio, May 2l.-AIr. and Mrs
Charles Atchley, Of the region irreligious
ly dubbed by its own inhabitants AZ
"HelFs Half Acre." are in tears and sor
row. The former laments the loss and
lapse from virtue Of his wife, who, in turn
mourns the rough usage and nearly iata
hanging Of her lover this morning. Mrs
Atchley Is an attractive woman, Of little
form, a sparkling eye, and of graceful car
riage. She is able to manage the widest
horse on her husbands place, and, sad tc
say, equally able to manage her husband
a thrifty, industrious farmer, a good heart,
ed and kindly man.
For several weeks there has been lurk.
ing in the neighborhood OF the "Hall
Acre one Story, a St. Louis sport, who
has kindred among the people OF this dis.
mai region, ostensibly to visit them, but
in reality to pay his court to the Young
vile, who had been former sweetheart,
Tile lovers had numerous meetings
almost under the eyes and ears OF the too
patient husband, who at last rose up in
his wrath and demanded reform, On the
day following the outbuBt the Young wife
packed up her worldly goods, and, In com.
pany with her st. Louis lover, started for
the West, leaving her three -year.old child.
an aged mother, and others to grieye tor
the erring one.
The elopement occurred on Monday
morning, but telegram to Col, Wappen.
stem arrested the guilty pair, who were
Drought to Batavia on a warrant charging
grand larceny, abandonment, etc.
The abandoned husband comes OF good
stock, and is industrious and well to do.
The character ol the wife has not for some
weeks been above reproach, and it is said
that previous to her elopement a CORES.
pondence between herself and Story, alias
Allen, has been ClandestineIy carried on.
The people Of the "Half Acre" are a
wild and unruly set, obeving the laws so
iar US convenient, but no further, and
they'ro the Democratic ticket with nm.
wavering fidelity. 1t is locality where
women ride men fashion and talk loud.
where the ground is barely cultivated and
never beautilled, and whose inhabitants
would seem to be !i.e last people upon
earth to resent with bloodshed for so tridinR
athlng as lapse from virtue, or an elop.
ment,,, But something stirred the "Half
Acre people up. Whether they were in.
cited by batl whisky or bad blood, none
can state. but certain it is that, about 8
o'clock this morning, about fifty or seventy.
hve masked men OF the locality named
came to Batavia, and entering the Nun.
son House, demanded the prisoner at the
hands ot the officers who were guard.
ing him. e"'N
the mob sent delegation OF eight up
stairs. Having passed in the front door,
It being unlocked, they broke down the
doors ot the room In which the officer had
thc prisoner In the hurry and darkness
the regulators seized another inmate OF
the room, Henry Skilenger, of Milford,
who is plasterer on the Court House now
oeIng remodeled, and put the rope around
ms neck. But soon discovering their mis-:
take, they let him go, half crazed and
scared, and gobbled up Story. They hust.
led blm down stairs on the double Quick,
and dragged him. with rope around his
neck and his arms pinioned behind,
along the middle OF the street a square
and half to the new iron bridge over
the east fork Of the Little Miami river. In
going to the bridge, Story unfastened his
hands, tied behind, but kept them in their
place as though tied, to help himself If
necessary. The regulators then threw
him over the bridge with the ropc about
ms neck, and dang!ed him up and down,
anu showered on his name mulitudes OF
curses, and after danlning him TO their
hearts content, and holding him till life
was nearly extinct aud his neck terribly
sore, they let the rope 60, and Story feIl
iorty feet down into the river and on the
rocks. The water being very low, the
wonder Is his brains were not dashed ont
and his body m9ngled.
But Bill Story is not that kind OF man,
and the COO water reviving him, battered
and stunned he Crawled ashore, and while
the Constable, Landlord Munson, and the
boarders ot the hotel were hunting him
with lights, Story passed around and came
IN the back way OF the house, and quietly
knocked and was admitted by one OF the
female domestics. II
The mans injuries are severe, and his
neck bears the marks OF the rome. The
Batavia people are Justly indignant, ali
lair minded citizens deCrying mob law in
any case. There is rGmor that an at.
tempt will again be made tonight to com,
plete the butchery SO bunglingly begun.