The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-23
A LYNGHING Fooled.
PERSONS KILLED BY THE
MILITIA IN OHIO.

William Dolby, Who Assaulted a White
Woman, Placed in Safety After a Fight.
WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, o, Oct
18.-William Dolby, colored, who one
week ago crimihally assaulted Mrs.
Mary G. Boyd, aged fifty five years, at
Parrots Station, nea here, was cap
tured at Delaware, O and brought into
court at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced
TO twenty years i n the p~enitentiary.
An angry mob gathered about the
Jail after Dolby had been identified by
his victim, and Sheriff Cook called to
his assistance the local militia com
pany. This action increased the fury
against Dolby, and Governor McKin-
ley was appealed to for additional as
sissance, and troops from Columbus
were sent here yesterday morning,
Colonel Colt in command. The mob
surrounded the jail and court hou e
and attempted to take Dolby from the
officers when removed from Jail to the
court house for trial, but yer kept at
bay by the free 49, Of bayonets and
dubbed guns.
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 a bayonet was thrust
through the clothes of another. Depu-
ties with drawn revolvers guarded the
prisoner in the court room.
Dolby cried like a 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.
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 a speech,
asking the crowd to disperse, but it
was received with jeers. Some one
threw a stone at Colonel Colt and he
cried out that the nextstOne thrown he
would order the men to fire. The court
yard by this time was filed with peO-
pie and cries of Give us the niger
and curses against the militia filed the
air.
The prisoner was PROSTATE from fear
and lay crying and moaning all the
time.
The mob kept Dolby and his guards
prisoners in the court house until 6 o
M, and then made an attack. The
mIlitin repealed them without firing at
first, but at 6:45 the south side door was
forced open. This door opens upOn the
street, which was filed with men, wo-
men and children.
The detachment OF the guards finally
feed on the attacking party. None of
them were hurt, but a dozen or more
persons in the street were struck, two
killed outright and four more fatally
wounded, one having since died.
The killed are:
Smith Welsh, aged eighteen years,
sonof a prominent grocer, shot through
the head.
Jesse Judy, aged twenty five years.
shot through the heart.
G. w. Johnson, of Giles Station, But
Ter county, shot through the stomach.
The wounded are:
William Sauer, aged thirty five years,
mechanic, shot in the abdomen.
Theodore zimmerman, aged twenty
two, artisan, right thigh shot.
Daniel ParrOtt, thirty years, farmer,
cousin of the outraged woman, shot in
the right foot.
Frank Niederhaus, sixty five, shotin
the left leg.
1t is believed that many others were
wounded.
The people were frenzied and threat
ened to dynamite the court house. Ad-
ditiOnal troops have been ordered from
Cincinnati, Columbus, Chillicothe and
other points.