Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-03
Beavers place and informed him that
Meant to Shoot Him Down.

meant 70 onoot dlm OOWn.
Mart did not wait for him to execute
his threat but grappled him, and they
fought all over the house, Mcdaniel
getting the worst OF it, and Beaver took
his pistols from him.
Last Monday Tom played his last act.
He entered Beavers place with a knife
in his hand, and announced that he had
come to wind up Beavers mortal career.
Beaver grappled him before he
could execute his threat, knocked
the knife out of his hand, and
then they had it rough and tumble
pounding and pummeling. Beaver tried
to gouge Toms good eye out, and thus
terminate his powers for mischief. A
bystander says he had it out two or
three times, and tried to pull it out and
it would snap back with report like
A Cork Flying Out ofa Champagne Bottle
and all this time Tom never WINGED.
One man says: 81 have been in the
army and all over the South, and seen
all sorts OF characters, but Tom McDan-
iel was the most desperate and gamest
man | ever saw"
care OF his distracted wife, whose devo-
ton never faltered, and under her care,
with medical aid, Tom was slowly re-
covering the use of his only eve.
Last night, about half-past IL, =, his wife
got up to bathe a cloth and lay it on his
eye. She had just done this and was
closing the door, which had stood open
during the hot evening, when about
eight armed men appeared and ordered
her to leave the room. She complied
without asking word or screaming.
She Knew the End Had Come
There was no attempt at disguise. As
the wife went out Tom was surrounded
in bed, and as he Strengthened up he
said:
"Bovs, are you going to kill me"
There was no reply. His hands were
bound and moose, made out OF a halter
rope, was slipped over his head al
tightened about his neck. He was led
out. No, he was dragged out. Eight
stout men laid hold of the rope. Not II
word was spoken.
The programme had been arranged,
the tree selected, and the leader, with a
cooked revolver, bossed the job in
silence. They dragged him over rail
fence, over logs and through bushes for
about four hundred yards 10 little red
oak near the road side,
Where He Was Strung Up.
He never spoke after he lett the house.
This morning the early passers by were
horror.struck 10 see nnde body swing.
ing to a limb. II Was after o'clock
before the Justice OF the Peace, Squire
Beaver, arrived and ordered the body
taken down. II was nude, except the
band OF the shirt around the neck and a
strip down the back, on which WAS writ.
ten the following card i'll a wretched
scrawl:
Take Notice!
"Any or all persons Interfering will
meet the same fate. We will protect all
law-abiding citizens.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
Squire Beaver held an inquest, ex-
amining the vile and five other Wit
nesses. The testimony covers the facts
given above. The coroner b verdict was
death by person or persons unknown
lue ndlGIilp NiS VIII hpii'. iHSic
was no mob. There were not over
twenty persons in the party, probably
not over ten. Part oi them came up the
road from Jacktown, and the remainder
down from the Point. They met at the
gate on the Decker farm, under the
shadow OF the tree wnere he was hanged.
The limb on which he was hanged was
Picked Out by Committee Some Weeks
Ago.
The Vigilantes have made two efforts
to hang him before, but when they
called at the house he was never at
home, and they disguised their mission
so as not to arouse suspicion.
The body, wher cut down, presented
a irightiul appearance. The chest was
literally skinned. The left nipple had
been torn Off the breast, and the scars,
scratches and bruises indicate the hor-
rble and brutal treatment he had re-
ceived before being hanged. He was
buried at o'clock, people docking to
the funeral from miles around.
This is the first hanging and lynchlng
that ever occurred in Pickaway since 1t
has been county.