Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-09-26
l-YNcHEp BY A MOB.
Anton Sicboldt Taken from jail ana
Hanged to u Tree mt Darlington, wis.

Anton Sieboldt Taken from jail and
Hanged to Tree mt Darlington, wis.
DARLINGTON, Wis, Sept. 22.-Anton
Siebolt, who Wednesday of last week
murdered James Meehan near this city, |
was taken from the Jail Monday by a
mob and lynched. Friday evening of |
last week the friends of Meehan gath |
cred in the city for the purpose of
hanging Siebolt, but the sheriff
hearing of their designs put the
prisoner in a carriage and took
him to the poorhouse, kept him there
all night, and in the morning drove to
Dunbarton, put the prisoner on train,
took him to Monroe and lodged him in
jail His. examination was set for Mon
day, and, fearing no danger, the pris-
oner was returned to this city, arriving
on the 1l:10 a. m. train. During
the morning hours friends of the
murdered man, singly, in couples
and small groups, entered the
city, but remained scattered through
out the city, and did not attempt
to meet at any rendezvous When the
train bearing the murderer rolled into
the city, although there was large
crowd at the depot, there was no dis
turbance, and not a single threat was
heard. After the prisoner had been
lodged in Jail crowd began to collect
there, but the uninitiated supposed
they were drawn there by idle curios-
ity, and no attention was paid to them
Sheriff Lindsay and his deputy,
John Hamilton, were eating dinner in
the dining-room and Siebolt in his cell
had Just finished his repast, when sud-
denly with wild yell the crowd made
a rush for the jail. Hamilton was i'm
mediately overpowered, but Sheriff
Lindsay sprang upstairs and for a
short time succeeded in holding the
crowd at bay, but he was overpowered,
tied, carried into room and
guarded. With a sledge the crowd then
battered off the lock of the cell in
which Sieholt was confined, threw a
rope around his neck, and with tri-
umphant yell dragged him down the
stairs into the street, and leading him
to tree threw the rope over a limb,
drew him up, and held him there until
he was dead. The avengers then quiet
ly dispersed, and within thirty min
utes all were out of the city on their
way home. Siebolt's remains were cut
down and turned over to the under
taker. In the evening at 5 o'clock his
, body was buried in the potter's field
Last Wednesday Siebolt, who was a
farm hand about 25 years of age, bru.
tally murdered James Meehan, a
, young farmer. The two men had
/ been drinking together in Darlington
and were partially intoxicated when
they started home. When about mile
from town an alteration arose. Sic
) bolt threw Meehan from the wagon
y tramped on his PROSTATE form, ant
Q finished his brutal crime by beating
! his victims head to a jelly with
a wagon wrench.
e Public sentiment is all with thu
n lynchers. Siebolt was a desperate
n character who is credited with having
y contributed to the death of one brothe
:. and made a desperate assault upol
another brother. His body was takel
to the courthouse and cor
oner's jury was at once i'm
paneled, but as the sheriff, VIII
is the principal witness, was ex
= hausted by his struggles with the mob
= the inquest was postponed unit
:, Wednesday. Most of the leaders o
= the mob are known, but no arrest
! have been made and it is improbabl
", that any will be. There have bee
y, several murders in the county durin
- the last few years and no adequat
punishment has been meted out, whlc
:. fact served to enrage the people and
~ nerve them to this lawless act.