Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

would hammer them with a brass block
weighing about two pounds that fit over the
rod and in doing this the fat or oily sub
stance would squirt and ooSe out, greasing
the floor and so sickening me that was
often compelled to quit work; and by the ad-
vice and instructions of the said Montgomery
and Homes | would take strong drinks Of
whisky which were furnished by them in
six-ounce phials, SIS a remedy for such sick
ness At other times was compelled to 60
TO bed for days at a time on account Of the
offensive character of this work. Under the
direct instructions of the said Montgomery
and Homes l made- five canes as above de-
scribad, two of which delivered to the said
Montgomery and two to the said Homes, one
remaining in my possession, and which is
hereby surrendered for the governor for
whom this statement is voluntarily made.
"The cane surrendered with this statement
is composed of skins taken from the body of
an Irish prisoner named Joseph Mccoy, who
was serving a term of imprisonment under
sentence from the Stark county common
pleas court, and who died in October, 1885,
and the body of a colored man named John
W. Slater, who was serving term OF i'm
priSonment under sentence from the Scloto
county common pleas court, and who died in
November, 1885. As a further evidence of
the brutal and inhuman conduct of the said
Montgomery, who was the chief prison ply
sician, l desire to say he would frequently
remark to me, while standing at the bedside
OF dying prisoners, 1 guess he would make
good stick meaning that the dying pris-
oner's skin would make a good cane.
FREDERICK W. NYE-'
"Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence by the said Frederick W. Nye, this
both day of September, 1856.
GEORGE 4 BEATON,
sNotary Public, Franklin county, Ohio.
II have seen the cane referred TO, and I
y l.a,-o ,,I awhf faI
to YOU, but the sickening thing is too often
sive for any decent man to unnecessarily
touch, and have too much regard for this
audience to disgust you with the exhibition
of such q revolving evidence of inhuman de-
basement. l will say to you, however, that
a mere inspection with the naked eye con-
firms the statement have read, and that to
prevent mistake have caused an analysis to
be made which conciIsively establishes the
truth of all this horrible barbarity.
"On the same rod, therefore, we have the
combined and commingled skins of an Irish
man and negro, put there by direction and
command of two Democratic officials, ply
sicians of the penitentiary, to crafty fiend-
ish whim that would have been disgrace to
the dark ages
@My Irish fellow-citizens, will you longer
stay with a party at whose hands the lifeleSs
body of your unfortunate countryman re-
ceived such inhuman treatmentG And where
is the cOlOred man VINO Will not resent Sucn
atrocious brutality? Whenever you think of
voting the Democratic ticket think Of that
Democratic ruffian having the skin stripped
from the dead body of poor Jim Slate that it
might be dried and dressed, and cut into
squares and slipped onto a steel rod, and
:, hammered and trimmed into a cane for a
4 miserable wretch to strut about the streets
with The subject is too awfully sickening
to be pursued"
In concluding Governor Foraker called at
tention to Senator Payne's failure to demand
an investigation of the charge that his sena-
torial election was bought, showed that the
Democratic party through its legislature re-
pealed the McConnels lille ordinance feature
of The Scott law, and through its supreme
court wiped out the Scott law; and thus pro-
vided for free whisky.
He called attention to the safeguards the
Republicans have thrown about the ballot
box, the refunding of the state debt Of
s., ,25O,OIO at 2.72 per cent. interest, and
closing, said:
"Vermont and Maine have spoken. They
have proclaimed that they are as earnest
and loyal in their devotion to Repubicia nsm
as they have ever been in the past. Let US
see to it that Ohio does likewise