The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-11-15
GI.AVIs SITUATION

At Washington &. L., Ohto-Colonel Colt
Refuses to Testify 10 the Riot Case-hs
Pears LynShinE by Mob.
CoLuMBUs, O.. Nov. l4.-Strange events
are brewingat Washington Court House.
Colonel Colt refuses. by advice OF his
attorneys, to 90 70 Fayette county to DO
examined as q witness by the coroner
concerning the part the Fourteenth
Ohio National Guard took In obedience
10 orders OF Governor Mckinley 10 as.
Bist Sheriff Cook in protecting Dolby, 4
negro, who had boon sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary. In
giving that protection four persons were
killed and about dozen wounded by
the military firing upon the mob when
II had broken open the doors Of the
court house to get at the negro.
Col. Colts attorneys, Hon. George K.
Nash and Henry J. Booth, assure the
governor that Colts life would be placed
In jeopardy by going. The coroner de-
clined to come to Columbus to take
Colts deposition, insisting that he shall
go there. Leading laR-abiding citizens
Of Washington 9. e. have assured the
governor privately that II Ceit were to
20 there be and Sheriff Cook no doubt
would be thrown into Jail, charged with
murder, after which the coroner would
become sheriff ex.officto, aud that tho
men whose friends were killed would
ride the county and gather mob, and
both Colt and Cook, and especially Colt,
would be dragged from the Jail and
lynched.
Governor Mckinley has assured Dol.
Colt that II he were TO go aud harm
were offered, the whole power OF the
state, and the nation, II necessary,
would be sent to his support. Col. Colts
reply to that is: "What good would
that do my wife aud family, after had
been jailed or lynched"
Lieut.. Col. W. p. N. barrow, q grad
uate OF West Point, but now a citizen
here and an officer OF the Fourteenth
regiment, o. N. g., said that the regi-
ment would not suffer Colt to be in
iured, and asked the governor to detail
an escort to protect him. Pending this
conversation, and while the governor
was considering some plan by which the
sending otthe military might be averted,
Col. barrow said: Governor, the detail
from the Fourteenth desires to go with
your official sanction. 1fyou cannot SEQ
your way clear to give such sanction, |
will have tho regiment go as individ'
nnls and with guns, to protect the colo
mel in case harm Ia offered. In that
event, and il shooting were to occur and
blood be spilled, the men, 1t would
seem, might be indicted for murder or
0h0oRiNO tutfI Infant n bill "
The situation is very grave. 1t is 30
grave, indeed, that the representative
OF the Associated Press cannot give the
names Of l0w.abiding and well.known
men at Washington @. H., whom he
has seen privately, and who are conferr-
ing privately with the officers OF the
state. Attorneys at Washington O. FL,
who say that the governor and the mil
itia did right in maintaining the law,
absolutely refuse to assist in the legal
defense of Uol. Colt, because it would be
tantamount to making arrangements
to practice law in some other country.
Ali law.abiding mouths in Washington
o. II. ARD as still as death. The other
side 10 doing all the talking.
The question which is confronting
tho governor is: Shall sheriff, elect
ed and sworn to execute law, and col
onel, ordered to his assistance, be sac
riliced for doing their official duty.
Rev. DR.. GLADDEN., who denounced
the mob in letter TO tho Columbus
press, declines to give out for publica-
ton letters received from Washington
@. II. from both sides, because OF the
fact that the writers would be made to
suffer by members OF the mob. In ono
latter he was threatened with assassin
alton If he came there for any purpose.
He burned that letter.
Another point showing the feeling
among the people OF tho county was the
defeat OF Sheriff Cook for reelection by
a large majority at the recent election.
his part in protecting prisoner against
q mob being the argument used by the
opposition to com pass his defeat.