The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-26
LYNCH LAW IN OHIO.
A Negro Ravisher Taken from Jail and
Hanged by Mob.
The Revolving Crime of Henry Howard
He Confesses His Guilt and is Hanged
to Tree in the Court House
Yard at Coshocton, Ohio.


NEwcoMERsTowN, o., June 19.-Thurs-
day Miss Bache, aged eighteen, and Miss
Phillips, aged twenty, were picking straw
berries along the Panhandle Railroad four
miles west of here, when they were as
saulted by negro who knocked Miss
Phillips down and then made an assault on
Miss Bache. Miss Phillips called for help
and the negro was pursued and captured
near West La Fayette in an old barn. There
is little doubt that he will be hanged, as
Miss Bache is unconscious and will die from
the effects of her injuries.
COSHoCToN, O., June 19.-Henry How
ard, the colored man accused of criminal
assault on Miss Bache, at West Lafayette, on
Thursday afternoon, was taken from the jail
tonight by a masked mob Of nearly two
hundred men, a rope put around his
neck, and he was rushed across the street
into the courtyard, and hanged to
large elm tree. The first tree they took
him to was too small. Several parties as
cended the second tree, each one anxious to
arrange the rope He confessed his guilt
but said he was sorry. The mob formed about
one mile cash of Coshocton. Crowds came in
totown from all directions this afternoon, and
tonight the town was iammed with strangers.
The mob came marching down Chestnut
Street, stopped at the Jail, and demanded
entrance, which was granted without any
resistance, and they demanded the ''nigger''
as they termed it. They were not in the Jail
three minutes until they had the prisoner.
The mob overpowered the Sheriff and took
the keys away from him. The jail was
watched during the entire day by persons
who wee anxious that Howard should not
be removed to some other county for safety.
This is the first lynching in the
history of Coshocton County. The
Sheriff wished to telegraph to Gov
ernor Hoadly this afternoon for pro-
lection, but was finally persuaded not to do
so. Fully one thousand people were in the
court yard when the prisoner was hanged.
Our best citizens strongly condemn the
lynching, and such excitement was never
seen in Coshocton.
THE VICTIM IN A CRITICAL. CONDITION.
A large delegation arrived here from
West Lafayette this morning. Miss Phillips,
one of the victims in the rape case reported
yesterday, was among the number, with
a bandaged head At the preliminary
trial to-day Miss Phillips swore that
the prisoner was the guilty party.
Several others also identified him.
When Miss Phillips identified the prisoner,
Mr.. Bache, the father of the girl that was SO
horrible raped, wanted to kill the prisoner
on the spot. The authorities Immediately
quoted him. There is little hope of Miss
Bache's recovery.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
CosHoCToN, o., June 19-Henry Howard
the negro who assaulted Miss Bache and
Miss Phillips near West Lafayette yesterday,
was hanged from tree in the Court House
yard at eleven o'clock tonight. The crowd
which gathered about the jail kept increas-
ing until eleven o'clock, when the light in
front of the Jail was put out. The crowd
was ordered back, and a hundred
masked men marched to the door of
the jail, forced open the outer door,
took the keys of the Jail and cell from
the Sheriff, and in about two minutes APP
peared with the prisoner. They were re-
ceived with deafening cheers by the crowd,
which numbered about one thousand They
took him to the center of the court house
yard, and after getting confession that he
was guilty but sorry that he had done the
deed, they put a strong hemp rope around
MS neck, threw it over limb, and strung
him up, everybody being eager to lend
hand. This is the first occurrence of the
kind in the county, and is strongly con-
demned by the law-abidng citizens.