Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-01-20
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tufi.i,t from III, le-l'!chce to tHr /
s..r., was, on the corner OF Mar
On AMI Third streets, stopped by tw"
ruiliu.s, WAC ordered i, III to throw
no Li, hands. Instead OF complying
he ~. &c au oiior; "a li"w his ltvol-
vel, .ttin9 Which, one oi the TIVE
.;te,i =; li!n. Tie bad oLte!cd his
side and inflicted a wound from
Which IA died tTo Louis later. HE
murderors, without stopping TO tob
their victim. fled. \ feeling Of the
tiercest indignation took immediate
possession vi the community. lie |
alarum bell WAS rung, business WAS
suspended, aud III Il few minutes
vigilance committee was III process
of organization and soon body OF
about 400 men were ready to protect
life and property.
About 10 o'clock the same night,
James Sullivan, one armed man,
and VIM. Howard, were discovered
by squad of the committee of safe
ty, in the hay on the Harrison x
Smith Wharf, and were given into
the Joint custody Of Chief of Police
McGraw and Sheriff Wyckoff, who
locked them up in the county Jail.
The subsequent proceedings are thus
detailed in the Associated Press dis
patches:
The prisoners were searched, and
on one was found revolver with
one chamber empty, from which ii
was evident a cartridge had been
discharged during the evening. The
men, as far as age, size and general
appearance were concerned, an
swered the description given his
assailants by George 3. Reynolds,
the murdered man, on his deathbed,
and also the descriptions given by
Rev. Jno. C. Fair and Capt. Weeks,
of the men who stopped them on
the street Monday night, demand
ing their money or their lives.
When these facts became known,
excitement in tue committee of
safety, who numbered among their
members almost every man in town,
became intense, and about 200
marched in a body to the Jail. They
were met by the Sheriff and deputy,
and the Chief OF Police and one of
his aides, who parleyed with the
committee few minutes, and finally
agreed to take the prisoners before
Justice Coombs at 8 in the morning
for examination. Before separating
the committee took the shoes of
Sullivan and Howard for the purpose
of comparing them with the tracks
known 10 have been made by the
murderers. Plaster Of paris casts
were made by these tracks and the
shoes were found to correspond in
every particular.
This morning the court assembled
in Yes!er's hall, Justice Coombs pre-
siding, Justice Cam having q seat
beside him, and Chief Justice Greene
of the Territorial Supreme Court
another. W. II. White, assisted by
o. Jacobs, conducted the prosecution,
and W. W. Holcomb appeared fol
the defense. Rev. Fair swore they
were the men who stopped him on
Monday night, and Capt. Weeks, in
the most positive manner. identified
them as the men who assaulted him
also swearing the revolver taken
from Sullivan was the one leveled
= by Sullivan upon him. Weeks tes-
timony was strong and unequivocal.
A brotheri of the murdered
man, named Meydenbauer, identified
the two men as having run past him
Immediately after the fatal shooting,
and as having gone through the
muddy alley, in which were found
! the tracks from which the tell. tale
casts were made.
While this evidence was being put
in, preparations for the prisoners
execution were being made outside
by the committee of safety. A strong
timber was suspended from the forks
of two trees on Occidental square,
, over which We're passed long ropes
with Iooses tied in the end and
under which was left wagon. The
Justice finally announced the ex-
animation over and remanded the
prisoners to the custody of the Sheriff
for indictment and trial at the April
term Of the District Court. He had
hardly uttered the words before
strong men seized every officer in
the room and tightly held them, and
other men seized Sullivan and How
ard, lifted them up as if they were
small children and starting on a run
for the place set for execution.
Nothing could have been done quick
er, for i'll less time than it takes to
write it the unhappy men had been
thrown into wagon, the nooses were
tight around their necks, the wagon
drawn from under and Sullivan and
Howard were suspended between
earth and heaven. Their struggles