The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-12-30
The Reign Of Murder
UNPLEASANT RECoLLECTIoNs ARGUS
ED By FRALEY's RETURN!

The return of Sam Fraley recalls, vividly, th
unpleasant experiences of three years ago
| when there seemed to be in reality d reign O
| murder in this neighborhood. On the 11th O
| May, 1888, John w. Jackson, a mere boy, wa.
| hung for one of the most brutal and treacher
Gus crimes ever known. He walked out upon
the scaffold in mock heroic style, seeming tc
realize that the gates of Paradise were justigap
ing to receive him. The fact was, he had been
talked AMI prayed int sort of religious insan.
ity and died as fearlessly, TO all appearances,
| he would have met the greatest pleasure in life
John w. Jackson had been keeping bar in q
doggery, and with some of the money he took
from Mr.. Hull the murdered man, he purchas-
| ed whisky.
| While Jackson was in Jail, on the night Of
April 90. 1882, Anderson Iackey, q quiet, re-
| spectacle farmer was murdered by Luke and
Bill Jones and Laban Stevens, in the presence
of his family, while the murderers We're trying
10 rob him. On the same evening the robbers
raided the residence of Mrs. Hoch, a widow Ia
dy and had they been resisted there another
murder or two might have resulted. After q
long and expensive search the Jones boys were
captured-Stevens being already in jail-and
from this time on, the prisoners were a great
expense TO the county until their final taxing
off The three men had been on an extended
spree for several days before the murder, and
crime. After much delay, the cowardly, brutal
Stevens was hung, the 23d of may, 1884, at
Waverly, having been tried under change of
venue. The Jones boys pro cessed a conscious
ness of the forgiveness of their sins-Steveas
tiied the same thing but the words choked in
his throat.
On the 1lth of December, 1885, Sam Fraley
blew the head off of Rufus Yates with a shot
gun, in Coal Township. This case will not be
fl1xr 4I,o
trouble preceding the shooting will perhaps be
made clearer then.
On the 2Sth of February, 1884, the day before
the hanging of the Jones boys, Tom Morgan a
school teacher, and we believe former attend
ant at Athens College, made a murderous as
sault upon his aged relative, John johnson, liv-
ing a few miles in the country, beating the old
man badly with club. Morgan had been
drinking some. So that il may be said that the
doggery business had much to do with landing
that bright young man in felon's CELL
When Sam Fraley lit out, a majority OF our
people were in hopes that they had seen and
heard the last of the reign of murder. But here
comes Fraiey back, after three years wandering,
when nobody expected him, and really nobody
wanted him. This list might be augmented by
the Ben. McCloud killing though it may be
possible that it not murder, though a
strong case of circumstancial evidence. That
crime originated in doggory, and the mans
death was due solely to whisky.
These some OF the things whisky and beer
have done for Jackson County. During the
same time there have been deaths caused by
whisky. where men We're literally burned out
and died f1om the effects of the horrible stuff.
The cases we have cited are but small portion
of the deadly and expensive work of the DEVILS
business in this comm unity. A public speaker,
in recent discourse here, well said that ply
his practice, ought TO be placed upon the high
way, and set to breaking stone. The same
might be said of beer, the most brutal and filthy
of all liquors. 1t does rot require Temper
ance lecture to point the evils of this accursed
business. 1t is known of all men. Every citi-
zen-druDk or sober-knows the traffic is
wrong; every doggery- keeper knows it is base
ly and horribly wrong. Then why in the.name
of reason, should any man hesitate to renounce
and denounce the whole doggery system?
"But," says a friend, 'you must not speak
harshly of the men engaged in this business.
Love, gospel, must be used" Well, let us see.
Jesus Christ gospel authority, was he
not? Here is the way he talked TO such cattle
as the doggery-keepers: aye are of your father,
the devil. = p" He was n murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaketh
lie, he speaketh OF his own; for he is liar and
the father of it.'' When the Savior of
kind, who came t'with healing in his wings,'
could speak in that way to the children of the
Devil, may we not speak in reasonably plain
terms OF the Agents and Representatives of his
Satanic Majesty? Did you ever know, or hear
OF a doggery- keeper going about his Internal
work hampered by any outbursts of sentiment"
Did you ever hear of one who would not go to
any length or depth of meanness for money?
Did you ever know or hear of one who was not
Il most dangerous enemy to mankind? Did you
ever know of a doggery-no matter whether
drugstore or jug-store, tnat was not a curse to
locality in which it was situated? If you ever
heard of such things friends, you the peo-
pie We are waiting for. We want information
concerning the good side of the doggery horror.
Do not be backward. fany man knows of a
single good, unselfish thought or act emanating
from doggery, it would be a good thing for
the public to know. We are pleased to hear
that some of the dogge1y-keepeTs of this Town
are preparing to go out of the business shortly.
1t is business that nobody, outside of The In
fernal Regions ought to engage IN. 1t is ac-
cursed, horrtble!
Commissioner Edwards has a scheme
for running the public roads on the low
grounds, instead of climbing the hills.