Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-11-23
TROUBLE IN STORE
Colonel Colt Declines to Go to
Fayette County.
MOB VIOLENCE IS FEARED
Serious Situation of Affairs -.Growing
Out OF the Fatal Attack bya
Mob ON Ohio Troops.

Columbus Nov. H.-Ureat events are
brewing at Washington courthouse.
Colonel Colt declines, by the advice Of
his attorneys. to go to Fayette county
to be examined as witness by the cor
oner concerning the part the Four
teenth Ohio National Guard took In
obedience to the orders of Governor
Mckinley to assist Sheriff Cook in pro-
tecting Dolby, the negro who confessed
to rape, and who had been sentenced to
20 years in the penitentiary. In giving
that protection four persons were killed
and about a dozen were wounded by
the military firing upon the mob which
broke open the doors of the courthouse
to get the negro.
Colonel Colts attorneys, Hon. George
x. Nash and Henry J. Booth, assure the
| governor that Colts life would be
placed In jeopardy by going. The cor
oner refuses to come to Columbus to
take Colts deposition, insisting that he
shall so there. Because of injury to their
business leading law abiding citizens
of Washington courthouse have assured
the governor privately that If Colt were
to go there he and Sheriff Cook would
no doubt be thrown into Jail and
charged with murder, after which the
coroner would become sheriff ex-officio
and that the men whose friends were
killed would gather and mob both Colt
and Cook, and especially Colt. who
would be dragged from Jail and lynched
COLT WILL NOT GO.
Governor Mckinley has assured Col
| hat IN Al
harm were offered the whole power OF
the state and nation, If necessary
would be sent to his support
Colonel Colts reply to that is: "whaj
good would that do my wife and fam.
lily after 1 had been jailed or lynched p
Lieutenant-Colonel w. p. N. Oar
row, a graduate of West Point, blu
now n citizen and officer of the Four
teenth regiment, o. N. O.. said to tn,
governor that the regiment would no
suffer Colt to be injured, and asked tn,
governor to detail an escort to protec
him. Pending this conversation, an,
while the governor was considering
some plan by which the sending o
military might be averted, Colonel Oar
row said: MIR. Governor. "A detail iron
the Fourteenth desires to go with you
official sanction. If you cannot see you
way clear to give such sanction, the
will go as individuals and with guns I
protect the colonel i'm case harm is off
J.. cred"
In that event, and If shooting was I
occur and blood be spilled, the men,
would seem, might be indicted for mui
der or shooting with intent to kill.
NO DEFENSE GUARANTEED.
The situation is very grave. Attorney
at Washington courthouse who say tn
, governor and military did right
maintaining the law, absolutely refus
| to assist in the legal defense of Col
' because 1t would be tantamount
$ making arrangements to practice la
[ I'm some other country. All law-abidin
, people in Washington courthouse al
7 still as death. The other side is doing a
p the talking. The question which is col
fronting tie governor is: shall Il
sheriff elected and sworn to execu
the law and the colonel ordered to h
assistance be sacrificed for doing the
c official duty?"
Rev. DR.. GLADDEN., who denounct
i the mob in a letter to the Columbi
n Dispatch, declines to give out for pu
n lication letters received from Washing
a ton courthouse from both sides, becau
7 of the fact that the writers would
i made to suffer by the members of Il
s mob. He was threatened with ASA
: sination If he came there for any pu
v pose.