The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-11-15
HERE'S A PRETTY MESS
Colt Won't Go 10 The Coroner and tho
Coroner Won't GO 10 Colt
AND SO THERE YOU ARE
Great Events Are Brewing at WASH
ington Court Houss-Large Spots
OF Blood on the Whiskers OF
the Man In the Moon.

COLUMNS, Ohio, Nov. l4.-Great events
are browning at Washington Court House.
Colonel Colt declined, by tho advice Of
his attorneys, to 90 to Fayette county 10
b examined 90 Q witness by the coroner
concerning the part the 18th Ohio Ma.
tional guards took in ohedisnce to the or.
ders Of Governor Mckinley to assist
Sheriff Cook in protecting Dolby, tho
negro who confessed to rape, and who
had been sentenced to 20 years m the peni-
teutiary. In giving that protection four
psrsons were killed and about dozen
wounded BY the military firing on . mob
which had broken open tho doors OF the
court house to get tho negro.
Colonel Colts attorneys, Hon. George
X. Nash and Henry J. Booth. assure the
governor that Colts life would b placed
In Jeopardy by going.
The coroner declines TO como to Column
bus to take Colts deposition, insisting
that he shall 70 there. Because Of injury
to their business tho leading Law abiding
citissns Of Washington Court House have
assured the governor privately that u
Colt was to TO there that he and Sheriff
Cook no doubt would BE- thrown into Jail
SoSs8S9 WIN uu0t0SEs ottOE WutCu tuv wi
onsr would become sheriff sxofhcio and
that, hs whose friends were killed. would
ret . mob and both Colt and Cook, aud %.
pscleliy Colt, would be dragged from Jail
and lynehod.
Governor Mckinley has assured Colonel
Colt that II he would 20 and any harm
was oiRerod him the whole power Of the
state and nation, u necessary, would be
sent to his support.
Colonel Colts reply 10 that 10: "Wha,
good would that do my wife and family
after had been Jailed and lynched."
Lieut..Col. w. N. p. Darrow. graduate
Of West Point, hut now citisen and Off
css Of tho iAsh o. n. g., said to the gov
srnor that the regiment would not suffeI
Colt 10 b injured, and hs asked the gov
esnoe 70 detail an escort to protect him
Psnding this eonversation, and the gov
esnor was considering some plan BY which
the sending Of the military might b
avsrtsd, Colonel barrow said: ''Gov
srnoe, the detail from the 18th desire Il
70 with your official sanction. II you can
not 80 your way clear TO give such sane
tisn, Will have the regiment 70 - indl
lvtAuala, and with them guns to protec
- colonel in case harm 70 offered"
In thas event, II any shooting were Il
occur and blood spilled, the mon. II nigh
seem, would bs Indicted for murder o
shooting with intent TO kill.
The situation ID very grave. Attorney
as Washington Court House who say tina
the eovsenor and military did right Il
maintaining the lev, and yet they abso
lutely refuse to assist in legal defens
q Colt, because Il would b tantamoun
10 making arrangements to practice lAv
in some other country. All the law-abid
Ing psopls In Washington Court Hous
are still - death. The other side 10 doin
all the talking. The question which
coafrontine the governor 10. shall tn
sheriff elscted and sworn to execute th
law. and . colonel ordered to his assist
anee. b sacrificed for doing their ofYicia
duty7
Rev. Dr.. GLADDEN., who denounced tn
mob In letter 10 the Columbus Dispatcl
declines to give out for publication tn
letters received from Washington Cour
House from both sides, because OF th
fact that the writers would bs made I
suffer BY members Of tho mob. He va
threatened with assassination II he cam
there for any purpose.