Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-18
MOB LAW in OHIO.
Results in a Bloody Collision
with the Militia.
SIX SPECTATORS Scot TO DEATH.

Some Of the Victims Being Mere Boys. and
to Escape Injury-Attempt to Outrage
the Law by q Lynching Responsible for
the BlOodshed-One Of the Acquia Creek
Robbers Captured with Some Of the Swag
ON His Persor-Political Riot at st.
Louis.
WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, O., Oct. 49,
William Dolby, colored, who one week
ago criminally assaulted Mrs. Mary C.
Boyd, aged 55, at Parrots station near
here, was captured at Delaware, O., and
brought into court at o'clock yesterday
afternoon. He pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to twenty years in the peniten-
tiary. 1t was n case of railroading, a spe-
cial grand jury having been summoned
for the express purpose of indicting the
prisoner, which it did promptly-it would
have been IS much as its members lives
were worth to have done otherwise. The
negro was promptly tried, pleaded guilty
and generally everything that could
legally be done to calm the mob spirit was
done. But the mob wanted blood Moth
ing else would satisfy it and it gathered
about the Jail first and then about the
court room demanding the ''nigger."
Called for Military Protection.
This being the case Sheriff Cook called
ont the local militia company Tuesday
evening. and with it guarded the Jail.
This action making it mosre difficult for
the mob to have its way, of course inreased
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pealed to for additional assistance, and
troops from Columbus We're sent here yes
teriay morning Colonel Colt in command.
The mob surrounding the Jail and court
house attempted to take Dolby from the
officers when removed from the 6ail to
the court house for trial, but We're kept ut
bay by the free use of bayonets and dubbed
guns. 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. An
other man was bayonetted through the
finger, while a bayonet was thrust through
the clothes of another.
RevOlvers in the Court Room.
Deputies with revolvers drawn guarded
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 the officers were powerless to
get Dolby from the court house to the jail,
or to the train, and Sheriff Cook wired
the governor TO send more troops. The
mob grow rapidly in numbers and despera-
ton. Colonel Colt made speech asking
the crowd to dispense, but it was received
with jeers. The prisoner was PROSTATE
from fear, and lay crying and moaning all
the time.
Troops Fire on the Rioters.
The mob kept Dolby and his guards
prisoners in the court house until p. m,
and then made an attack. The militia
repealed them without firing at first, but
Mt 6:45 p. IN. one gang of rioters attacked
the south door and another the north
door simultaneously and the south door
was forced open. Some one threw a stone
Mt Colonel Colt and he cried out that at
the next stone thrown he would order the
men to fire. The open door gave on the
street, which was filled with women and
children, many yelling, "Give US the mig
ger" Another stone was thrown and the
troops fired, not on the attacking party it
seems, but US usual over their heads