The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-18
ESCAPED The MOB.
Wretched Dolby Landed in the
Penitentiary at Columbus.
Escorted to His Train by a Large
Force Of Ohio Soldiers.
Washington Court-House Quieted
Down After Midnight.
nv Associated Press

Va wv w imam go
by, the mulatto assailant OF Widow Col
by, over whom last nights disastrous
attempt al lynching was made at Wash
ton Courthouse. was landed In the pen
itentiary here at 730 this morning.
Dolby's sentence Is to twenty years
Imprisonment.
The prisoner was escorted here by
Sheriff Cook and Deputy Busick, ac-
companied on the train by the Columbus
companies Of the Ohio National Guard.
The prisoner was taken from the train
ut Dennison avenue, not coming into the
Union Station, and walked to the prison
one wall OF which is on the avenue.
The military remained In the cars ana
were carried to the Union Station. All
troops have left Washington Court
House.
A reporter who came up with the train
states that after midnight things at the
Court House quieted down very much.
The citizens had nearly all gone home
Yet many persons stood on the neighbor-
ing corners until a much later hour, dis
cussing the affair.
Some OF these people who remained
about the Courthouse were supposed
with dynamite, there had been so much
talk about a possible occurrence OF that
kind. based upon what seemed to be
reliable evidence.
The military. all told, until $50 A.
NJ, number ID less than one hundred
men, against the surging hundreds OF
men who crowded into or about the
COURTHOUSE. This small band had kept
Cos. lNE.. II
teen hours. Finally. the First Regi-
ment. from Cincinnati. and two com
panies from the Fourteenth Regiment,
from Columbus. arrived, at about $50
A square was formed by the men OF
the Fourteenth, and. escorted by the
First, the line of march to the cars
was taken up. the negro being In the
square.
En route to the cars. In the early
morning. nothing of interest occurred,
except that a good many people were
still on the streets. Beyond an occa-
sional voice In the stiffness of the hour,
uttering threats and disapproval the
affair closed in rather weird way.
Gov: Mckinley. on being asked about
for itself. The troops were sent to act
in aid of the civil authorities, who were
powerless to quell the mob that was
seeking to overthrow the law and its
orderly administration"
The Governor was up all night in
sleeping car and in direct communlca-
ton until 3 A. NJ. with his Adiutnnt
General. He came through Washington
Court House about 4. NJ. having left
Cincinnati at $3.50 A. NJ.
The Governor says he will not leave
Ohio 80 long as there Is any possibility
of trouble. He has cancelled speaking
engagements at Louisville and Nash
Vile. ami the meeting at New Orleans
Will depend upon the developments of
to-day.
( WASHINGTON COURTEOUS Oct
of horror In the jail before his awful ex-
periences of yesterday. The sight of the
mob outside the jail weakened him FIRST.
He lost all his bravado, and hurried TO
his cell. There he passed II sleepless
night, covering on the floor OF his cell.
listening to the angry mutterings of the
mob outside, which swelled ominously In
volume as from every village and hamlet
the rising citizens poured in to take ven
geance on the wretch.
When the rther prisoners discovered
that Dolby was in the Jail they joined
with the crowd in cursing and hooting
him, and would have done him personal
injury II they had been able to reach
him.
"rhey's coming to get you, Dolby
shouted one and the corridors of the Jail
resounded with the laughter of the other
prisoners.
the door. Dolby. and one of them has a
rope" All through the night the prison.
ers kept jeerinG the terrified wretch.
who, ashy white with fright; cover
moaning .pitifully. When morning
dawned and the guards came to look AT
Dolby, they found that in his ahjeCt
fright he had covered the door of his cell
with a sheet. and lay shivcring and
moaning.
When he was brought into court yes
terday morning he seemed so weak from
fear that he could scarcely stand with
glnnOTt He sat before the Grand
Jury a CHASTITY picture. his eyes rolling,
his form convulsed with sudden chills.
muttering to himself like one bereft of
After Dolby rece we'd his sentence
woman. addressed the crowd from the
SeP he s sad do to not
want aly valuable life sacrificed in an
Negro The mob hoo,ed him and he
When the door was broke down by
the mob and the soldiers fired. some
one shouted: "They are firing blank
cartridges. 1t was some time before
, were coming AT them, and when they
did. they fled in all directions.
Twenty-three persons We're hit, hut
Press despatch were seriously hurt.
The casualties were as follows:
The killed:
JOHNSON. GEORGE W. AGED tvcnty-cgght o.
Kyles Butler County; shot in the stomach
~ JUDY. JESSE, aged twenty-five, a llblrer, bhp
through the breast thigh and abdomen
WELSH. SMITH. aged eighteen son Of .
grocer. sho, in the head and abdomen
The wounded:
AMMERMAN, THEODORE. aged twenty-five
shot in the right thigh
KEATlNG. GEORGE, aged fourteen. shot In tn
groin.
NEIDERHOUsE. FRANK aged siIty-hve. sho
In the left leg and right foot: left leg Was an
pntated
PARoTr. DOW. aged thirty. shot In the righ
foot.
LAuM. WILLIAM. aged thIrty-hye. a laborer
shot in the abdomen.