The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-06-07
MOB LAW.
Hanging of George Ellis by q
Mob ut Ashland, n.y., Satur-
day Morning.
[Ironton Leader-Extra.

[Ironton Leader-Extra.]
AT 8 o'clock this morning, George
Ellis, the least guilty of the three
outlaws who ravished, murdered and
burned, paid the penalty with his
life. sss
On double sycamore tree, stand
ing back Of the lot. where the. Glib
bon's house stood, hangs George Ellis
stark,and stiff as we write. ~
Fearfully have thejpeople Of Ash
land avenged the triple rrime. \ es:
terday the jury n,the Ellis case, at.
ter being outtwehty-two hours came
in with a verdict of imprisonment
for life. Eleven stood for murder in
the first degree and the one honest
q juror brought the eleven to
change.
1t was not long before the news
reached Ash land, and then began the
secret conclave which eliminated in
the night raid on the Jail and the
lynching.
The particulars as cleaned by us
this morning on the ground are as
follows. ~.
Shortly after midnight crowds of
men, numbering from 500 to 1000 as.
sembled, portion of them standing
guard, about the burnt premises, in
Geiger's addition to the city of Ash
land, the remainder then appropria
ted a locomotive and two open cars
and steamed up the road, dropping
guards all along the road TO Catletts.
burg, distance of four miles. The
train was held outside of the town,
In charge of a guard and the detail
left for the Jail.
1t may be proper to state that on
the march to the Jail, guards were
stationed at intervals, and when they
Numbered on the door Of the jailer at
half-past | o'clock this morning, the
army of 1000 had dwindled to a we'll
drilled and systematic squad ofthirty
men. Jailer Gdilker was aroused in.
his night clothes, and to eatreaties
and demands refused to open the
door. The lyRchers finding that
their time was being wasted in par
leying, assaulted a window Of the
Jail and breaking it in crowded in;
and while some held the iailor, the
others found the keys, and unlocked
the cell where Ellis slept. A new
seagrass rope, three.eights of an inch
thick was placed around his neck,
after he was dressed, and bearing
their prisoner in triumph, to the
train, it moved silently down the
road, taking Ellis to his doom, pick
ing up the videttes along the iron
threaded way.
During the ride, Ellis was sullen
and taciturn, so we are informed, and
endeavored to escape his doom by
throwing himself from the train, but
strong men bore him down, and the
dust and dirt on. his clothes, is visi.
BILE as he hangs in the morning sun.
The only thing he had to say was
that his original story, eliminating
Neal and Craft, was the truth, and
ne was only given time to snatch
hasty prayer when the rope was
frightened. He was held bodily up,
while one of the lynchers fastened
the rope TO the over.arching limb,
about fifteen feet from tho ground,
and to the signal "let go below" the
body of George EtlisfeA, and he died
a slow and torturing death from
strangulation.
A good-looking man, with the suit
Of clothes on he bought from Powell
" House the day of the arrest, his
pants catching on his boot tops, a
black mask awry on the back of,.his
head, his hat under his feet, swol,