Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-10-26
A DESPERATE MOB
Fired Upon While Trying to
Lynch q Negro Fiend.
HE HAD RAPED AN OLD LADY

Courthouse and Additional Troops
Have Been sent--Negro Pleads Guilty
TO Outraging White Woman.
WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, o., October
19.-Although Jasper Dolby (colored)
pleaded guilty to outraging Mrs. Mary
@. Boyd in order to be rushed off to the
penitentiary for protection, he did not
start in advance OF the indignant mob.
People were swarming into the town all
day. The Sheriff could not go from the
jail to the depot after the prisoner had
been sentenced. A little after 6 o'clock
the first rush was made on the court
house. A crowd OF determined men at
tempted to break in the south door,
while another party charged on the mi
litia at the north door. Some one threw
q stone at Colonel Colt, and he cried out
that ut the next stone thrown he would
order the men to fire. The crowd at the
door was unable to effect an entrance.
The courtyard by this time was filed
with people, and cries OF "Give us the
niger" and curses against the militia
filled the air. The crowd grew in size
every minute.
Before the firing Colonel Colt made a
fspeech, asking the crowd to disperse, but
| it was received with jeers. The prisoner
was proetrated from fear, and lay crying
and moaning. Up TO this time Dolby
and his guards had been kept prisoners
In the courtyard by the mob, who now
made an attack. The militia replied to
them without firing at first; butanother
onslaught was made, and the south door
was forced open. This door opens upon
the street, which was filled with men,
women and children. The detachment
OF the guard finally fired on the attack
ing party. None OF the latter were hurt,
but dozen or more persons in the street
were struck. Two were killed outright,
and four more were fatally wounded, one
Of whom has since died. Following is a
list OF the killed and wounded:
Killed-Smith Welsh, aged Is, son OF
o prominent grocer, shot through the
head; Jesse Juddy, aged %, a mechanic,
shot through the heart; g. w. johnson,
shot through the stomach.
Wounded--William Sauer, aged 35, a
mechanic, shot through the abdomen,
will die; Theodore Ackerson, aged %,
artisan, shot in the right thigh; Dan
Parrott, aged so, farmer, cousin OF the
outraged woman, shot in the right foot ;
Frank Niederhaus, aged 65, shot in the
leg, will die; John Korn, badly shot in
the foot; Ernest Ellis, thumb shot off;
Frank Smith, injuries unknown; John
McHugh, shot in the foot, will probably
die.
II is believed many others were wound
cd, and diligent search is in progress
TO find them.
i Upon the firing the mob dispersed in
all directions, but soon gathered again.
Immediately all the places OF business
in the city were shut up. Mayor Creamer
peremptorily closed all places where liq-
uor is sold. Every street was filed with
people. No time was lost in carrying
away the dead and wounded. Business
houses and the engine-house were con-
verted into hospitals. All the surgeons
in the city were called into service.
Mothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts
crowded around the dead and wounded
and added fire to the rage of the mob by
their lamentations.
The feeling against the military is bit,
} ter, vicious and vehement. II pervades
l I'LL CihEEcGs A6 tlhuO PdccCA OhV AAOA
grew in size and fury. All over the
country by telephone, courier and tele'
. graph wire the news was spread. AL
the roads leading to the city were filled
with men on horseback, in wagons anc
on foot, hurrying with all speed to the
scene OF bloodshed. Meanwhilein Wash
ington Courthouse q search was going OF
for arms, ammunition and dynamite
Shouts were heard:
"Down with the military"
elbow up the dogs with the blacl
, fiendp
These shouts but feebly expressed thu
pent-up passion of everybody, for every
body was in the street, and all wer'
members OF the mob as far as persona
feeling was concerned. Men moved abou
as II bent on business, but said nothing
There is no doubt of purpose to blow
up the courthouse. or this the militar,
i are aware. A full moon lightsup ever!
\ approach to the courthouse. II militar,
reinforcements do not reach here befor
the moon goes down, there is danger O
further and greater bloodshed betweel
, Ian organized armed mob and the militia
and in case the mob succeeds there
danger that many of the militiamen vii
share Dolby's fate. Additional troop
have been ordered from Cincinnati, Co
lumbus, Chillicothe and other points.
!, Dolby's crime was committed one wee
ago at Parrott's station. Mrs. Mary {
Boyd, aged 65, was his victim. He wa
brought into court at 4o'clock this after
noon, pleaded guilty and was sentence
to twenty years in the penitentiary. A
angry mob gathered about the Jail var
yesterday afternoon after Dolby had bee
identified by his victim, and Sheriff Coo
: called to his assistance the local militi
company. This action increased the fur
against Dolby, and Governor McKinle
was appealed to for additional assistanC
4 and troops from Columbus were sent hel
this morning. Colonel Colt was in con
mand. The mob surrounded the Jail an
courthouse and attempted to take Doll
from the officers when he was remove
from the Jail to the courthouse for tria
but they we're kept at bay by the use
bayonets and dubbed guns,
Henry Kirk, brother-in-law OF Il
assaulted woman, was thrown down Il