The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-10-18

wAsuISdros G. H, ONO. Oct. H.
William Dolby, colored, who one week
ago criminally assaulted Mrs. Mary O.
BOYD, aged fifty, at Parrots Station, near
here, was captured ut Delaware, Ohio,
aud brought into court at o'clock this
afternoon. Ho pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to twenty years in the pen
itentiary. An angry mob gathered
about the Jail yesterday afternoon after
Dolby had boen identified by his VIC
tim, aud Sheriff Cook called TO his as
sistance the local military company.
This action increased the fury against
Dolby, and Governor Mckinley was
appealed TO for additional assistance,
and the troops from Columbus were
sent here this morning, Colonel Colt in
command. The mob surrounding tue
Jail and court house attempted to take
Dolby from the officers when removed
from the jail to the court house for trial:
but were kept ct bay by the free uso OF
bayonets and dubbed guns.
When brought to the court house
Dolby broke down. While bringing
him from the Jail, the mob charged,
and almost succeeded in getting him.
Henry Kirk, the brother.in-law OF the
assaulted woman, was knocked down
the steps and badly bruised. Another
man was bayoneted through the finger,
while bayonet was thrust through the
clothes OF another.
cRINaING COWARD.
Deputies with revolvers drawnguarded
the prisoner in the court room. Dolby
cried like baby and kept looking
around for help. Soldiers were marched
in to keep the crowd quiet. After the
sentence the prisoner was taken to the
grand jury room. A mob gathered
about the court house and it was impos-
sibis to get the prisoner through to take
him to the train.
The officers were powerless to get
Dolby from the court to the jail or to
the train, and Sheriff Cook wired the
governor to send more troops. The
mob grew rapidly in numbers and des-
peration.
Colonel Colt made q speech asking
tho crowd to disperse, but 1t was re.
ceiyed with jeers. The prisoner was
prostrate from lear, and lay crying and
moaning all the time. The mob kept
Dolby and his guard prisoners in the
court house until 6p. m. and then made
an attack. The militia repelled them
without firing at first, but at 6:45 the
south door was forced open. This door
opens upon the street, which was filed
with men, women and children. The
detachment OF tho guards finally fired
OH the attacking party, none oil the
latter being hurt, but q dozen or moro
persons in the street were struck, two
killed outright and four more were
fatally wounded, one having since died.
TIE DEAD.
Tho latest reports give tho list OF kill
ed aud injured as follows: Smith
Welsh, aged l6; Jesse Judy; Mack john
son, Of williamsburg, Brown county,
died in an hour; William Samms, shot
through the bowels, fatally; George
Heating, aged II, shot through both
legs and groin, will die; +. L. Nitter-
house, an old and prominent citizen,
elot through Dotn ankIes'
A full list OF the wounded cannot be
had, as they we're taken away prompt
ly, but the following arc known:
Theodore Amorman, Dial Parrett,
John McCune, john Korn, Ernest Ellis,
Frank Smith.
The people are frenzied and threaten
to dynamite the court house. Ad-
ditional troops havo been ordered from
Cincinnati, Columbus, Chillicothe and
other points.
No time was lost in carrying away the
dead and wounded. Business houses
and the engine House were converted
into hospitals. All the surgeons in the
city were called into service. Mothers.
sisters, wives, sweethearts crowded
around tho dead and wounded and
added pathos to the scene and fire to
the rage OF the mob by their lamenta-
tions. Against tho militia the indig-
nation was bitter, vicious and vehe-
lnent. 1t pervaded all classes.
As the time passed. the mob grow in
sizo and fury. All over the country, by
telephone, by courier, and by electric
wire, tho news had spread. All the
roads leading into the city were fillod
with men on horseback, in wagons and
on foot, pushing with all possible speed
to the scene Of bloOdshed, breathing
vengeance at every step. Meanwhile
IN Washington Court House, search
wac going on for arms and ammunition
IN! for dynamite.
There is 10 doubt purpose to blow
IN the court house. 0fthis tho militia
are aware. A full moon lights up
every approach to tho court
house. II military reinforcements
do not roach hero before the
moon goes down there is danger OF
further, greater bloodshed between an
organized armed mob and the militia,
and in case tho mob succeeds there is
danger that many OF the militia will
share tho fate Of tho human brute
Dolby,