Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-08-12
THE AooslER TRAGEDY.


Nights Conflict to Find Their Home
Burned-Thcy Swear vengcnce on other
Members of tho HIob of might Riders'
Their Fifth Victim Dies of His Wounds
Others Thought to Have Bccn Killed.
CoRYDoN, Ind, Aug. G, . a. m.-The
white caps of Boone township burned
the house of the Conrads during the
night. Monday three riderless horses
owned by three white caps-John Ken
del, William Fish and William Hubbel
were found 1t Is thought that
their owners have been killed by
the Conrads, who have returned from
Kentucky. They say they have three
more men to kill. 1t is thought they
are in hiding in the woods, Harrison
county is excited as it never was be-
fore. The murderers are in ambush
and everybody is going armed. The
Conrads are asking relatives to help
them, and bloody battle is expected.
w. May, who was shot by the Conrad
brothers during the raid of the white
caps against the hunted men early Sun
day morning, is dead making five vic
Tins in all. The Conrad boys have not
been captured. They left their log hut
in the fastness of the hills at 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. Each of the broth
ers carried shotgun and had two
revolvers strapped about their waist.
With their old mother and their
sister Fanny between them they
marched down the road through
the woods to the Ohio river in broad day
light AT the mouth of Mosquito creek
they found Bill Mel, an old ferryman,
|, al n,,t,, A..
Kentucky shore. When they reached
Kentucky Sam told the boatman he
would come back and kill everybody
who had hand in the trial of the
brothers for the alleged killing of their
father. Neil said Monday:
~ did not know who they were until reached
the Kentucky shore Then the older man told
me they were the Conrad brothers and that
they had killed u lot of white caps. One of the
neighbors,' he said to me, told me this after
noon that Albert Howe, John Wisemun,
John Timberiake, William May and
Edward Houston were dead. / think II they
look up in the millet patch they will find an
other body. 1t is there for saw the man fall,
and know he had n load OF buckshot in his
head. Altogether we fired thirty-two shots.
Five men besides those who were killed were
badly hurt They are all lot OF towards, any
way, and my brother and l will go back and
take care of our farm in spite of them
THE two women had to be almost carried
into the boat. Fanny's face was cut and she
looked as II the white caps had treated her
roughly The boys asked me to so over and
watch their stock, but told them was afraid
OF my life 20 do it After they got out OF the
boat in Kentucky Bill broke down and cried.
but the old woman told him not to be baby
All day through the wild bluff coun-
try of Harrison county, untouched by
railroads and almost inaccessible by
wagons, wild rumors have been afoat.
| -boned men on lean horses have
| been galloping to and fro through the
| woods. They were white caps apparent
| ly, but they We're not looking for
, the Conrads They were trying to f;nd
! out definitely how many of their num-
Der We're killed by the men whom they
| had planned to whip and perhaps
| lynch. Reports that six more white
| caps We're missing had started them on
the search. One prominent farmer,
| Henry Tinsley, living near Elizabeth,
was found to have serious wound on
| the chest and may die.
| All the county turned out to the
''burying" Monday of the four dead
white caps. The funerals were held
| from four little churches or 10 miles
| apart and almost hidden in the depths
! of the tangled woods. From one to
another, up and down the bluffs, the
strange crowd of backwoods people
| journeyed, paying their last tribute to
their fellows, for the dead men were
all prominent farmers.
| Adam Anderson, of Laconia, was one
of the first to go to the house Sunday
morning. He said:
"As near as can learn there were about
| sixty in the gang OF night riders who called on
| the Conrads Sunday morning. They htched
| their horses in the woods the brow OF
the hill and started to climb down
the bluff into the ravine The Con-
rad boy, who was lying out ran to the
house and gave the alarm 10 his brother They
then took their shotguns and revolvers and
| hid In the edge OF the corntield which comes
within 80 feet of the house The night riders
| In their long white cambrlc masks quietly
surrounded the house Then dozen of them
with rail and sledge walked up
on the porch and demanded that the
door be opened. There was no answer
and they struck it with the rail. AT the sound
the Conrad boys opened fire Albert Howe and
John Wiseman fell dead in their tracks, heavy
loads of buckshot striking each of them in the
head Another volley and Timberlakc and
Houston had fallen. Their comrades attempted
to pick up the bodies. but the Conrads kept
|
their lives"
One thing is certain, the Conrads
have frightened the white caps of Har-
rison county, whose strength has been
heretofore in numbers, into the palsy.
Good citizens are praying that the Con-
RAIDS have struck the death-blow to the
reign of the grim "night riders" 1t is
plain that the sympathy of the peo-
pie in general is with the Conrads.
The sheriff of Harrison county, it is
thought, will make no attempt to ar
rest them, for, as one old farmer put it,
: "they have done nothing but defend
themselves right smart" Even men
} who are known to be themselves white
caps dare not defend the action of the
night riders.
. Decide to Resume.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. S.-The Milwaukee