The morning call., 1894-11-15
Things Look SquaIiy for
Colt.
HE ONLY DID HIS DUTY.
Yet Now He Is Threatened With
LynChing.
WILL PROTECT HIM.
Serious Trouble Has Grown. Out OF
the Shooting of Citizens by
Militiamen.

COLUMBUS Ohio, Nov. 14.-Great events
are brewing at Washington Courthouse.
Colonel Colt declines, by advice of his at
torneys, to go to Fayete County 10 be
examined as witness by the Coroner
concerning the part The Fourteenth Regi-
meni, Ohio National Guard, took in Obedi-
ence to the orders OF Governor Mckinley
to assist Sheriff Cook in protecting Dolby,
negro who confessed to criminal assault
aud who had been sentenced to twenty
years in the penitentiary. In giving that
protection four PERSONS were killed and
about dozen wounded by the military
firing upon tbs mob, which had broken
open the doors of the courthouse to get the
negro. Culonel Colts attorneys, Hon.
George K. Nash and Henry K. Booth,
assure the Governor that Colt, life would
be placed in jeopardy by going. The
Coroner declines TO come to Columbus TO
take Cots deposition. Insisting that he
shall go there. Because of injury to their
business leading law-abding citizens OF
Washington Courthouse have assured the
Governor privately that If Colt were TO go
there he and Sheriff Cook no doubt would
be thrown into jail. charged with murder,
after which the Coroner would become
Sheriff ex-officiO. and that men whose
friends were killed would ride through
the county and gather a mob and both
Colt and Cook. but especially COZ, would
be dragged FROM the jail and lynched.
Governor Mckinley has assured Colonel
Colt that If he were to 60 and harm were
offered the whole power of the State and
nation, If necessary, would be sent to mis-
support.
Colonel Colts reply to that is: What
good woull that do my wife and family
after had been jailed or ynched?"
Lieutenant Gel mel w. n. P. barrow, a
graduate of West Point. but now a citizen
and an officer OF the Fourteenth Regiment.
OHIO National Gnard, said to the Governor
that the regiment would not suffer Colt 10
be injured, and asked the Governor to de-
tail an escort TO protect uim. Pending
this conversation and while the Governor
was considering some plan by which the
sending of the military might be averted
Colonel barrow said:
Governor. the detail from the Four
teeDih desires to go with your offic al
sanction. If you mot see your way
clear to give such sanction l will have the
regiment go as individuals. and with guns,
10 protect the colonel in case harm is
offered"
In that event and II shooting was to &C.
cur and blood be spilled, the men, it would
seem, might be indicted for murder or
shooting with intent to Kill. The situa-
ton is very grave. It is so grave, indeed,
that the reporter of the Associated Press
cannot give the names Of law-abiding citi-
gems and well-kn0wD men at the WaShip o.
ton Courthouse whom he has seen pri-
vateiy and who are comforting privately
with the officers Of the State. Attorneys
at Washington Courthouse who say that
the Governor and military did right In
maintaining the law absolutely refuse to
assist in the legal defense of Colt because
it would be tantamOunt to max ing arrange
ments 10 practice law in some other county.
All law-abiding mouths in Washington
Courthouse are sill as death. The other
side is doing all the talking.
The question which is con fronting the
Governor is, shall a Sheriff elected and
to his assistance be sacr feed for doing
their official dutyP
Rev. DR.. GLADDEN.. who denounced the
mob in letter to the Columbus Dispatch,
declines to give out for publication letters
received from Washington Courthouse
from both sides, because of the fact tina,
the writers would be made TO suffer by
members of the mob. In one OF them he
was threatened with assassination if he
came there for any purpose, but he burned
that letter. 1t is mentioned to show the
feeling at the nIace