The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-08-02
THE NEW LEXINGTON
PANIC.
The Riot Alarm.


hundred thousand dollar court house
Of"brown stone Of uniform color" TO
its very foundations, and crumble
the lime stone, artillery proof vaults
Of the Jail to fine dust.
1t comes about in this way. We
publish below, the New Lexington
statement, sent out to the Press by
authority.
"On Saturday night, between 10
and l o'clock, ,our village was thrown
into a turmoil of excitement by the
sounding of the riot alarm in the
City Hall and Court House. The
citizens responded promptly, and
learned that there would be an effort
made to lynch John Underwood and
his son Frank, who are charged
with the murder of Marshal Cook
of New Straitsville, and now con-
fined in Jail here. The citizens made
a rush for the armory and armed
themselves with Winchester rifles
and riot shot guns, surrounded the
Jail and guarded the principal
streets of the villalge.
Prior to the sounding of the alarm
Night policeman Keating, whose
suspicious had been aroused by no.
ting number of strangers in town,
was guarding the road leading from
New StraitsviIle to this place and
endeavored to stop two persons in a
buggy, and was following them up
when he discovered a two seated rig
in dark alley, and upon investiga-
tion found that it contained four
persons with handkerchief over their
faces. He Immediately at the point
of revolver conducted them to the
light and inquired their business.
When one of them asked elf there
was any other stranger in town, "the
policeman replied, NO He re-
marked that there will be d-m
sight of them before long. Upon
this information the policeman
the riot alarm and notified
the Jail officials of what might be
Immediately after the sounding of
the alarm the Sheriff was informed
BY parties driving out the road lead.
ng to New Straitsville and Shawnee
hat there were in the the neighbor
hood of 100 to 1875 persons congre
eating about u miles from town.
These parties came by horseback,
'oot, wagons and in buggies, and
we're from the towns of New Straits
lille and Shawnee. Upon making
his discovery the parties drove by
by-rcad as rapidly as possible 70
his place and informed the Sheriff.
n the meantime strangers were ar
wing in town, who were immedi-
tely put under guard, and in every
Instance they were found to be we'll
rmed.
The parties in the buggy whom the
policeman failed to stop, ilnmedi.
tely after the sounding of the riot
larm, were seen to drive rapidly
rom the town, and it is presumed
hat they informed the mob of the
being made to receive
hem and they then disbanded.
Our citizens are determined that
he Underwoods shall have trial
nd that mob violence shall not be
within Our village. The
ficials will remove the Underwoods
} a place of safety"
Now this reads like a real good
Id fashioned New Lexington ''right
it," when Alex Scott, Jim
aylor, Jim Comfy, Sam Diller,
i'm McMahon, Jim Retallic, Dave
[arsh, John Ferguson, jim Houston
nd other citizen saints of that town
rganized and put Larry Cayton, the q
Icellent marshal then, as he is now,
trough the flint mill. We car dis
nctly see the sstwo seated rig in
'e dark alley, containing four per-
ms with handkerchiefs over their I
ces." and pints in their pockets. S
We seem TO see the hurry to and
o of the belated citizens with e
anched faces, whispering fears of s
e capture of the town by the wild d
'rbarians of McCluny, led by the c
eenans. the Coyles, Nugents and a
hers of such terrible prowess. We g
n yet hear in our ears the "Riot Il
larm,' when Larry lifted up his
ice and it seemed the grave yards n
wned and the sheeted dead did o.
ueak and gibber in the streets of the
wn, so scary was the wild Irish '
lis he let out of him.
We have heard of the encampments
t on the Oakfield road, where the
,Gonigles and Forquers held the :,
nth Forkers in check for the oppor- =
ne moment to make a raid on the :,
- Bend, and we have witnessed -
capture of New Lexington, and n
3 confiscation of Jim Crimes =;
ocery by the robbers of Chestnut 4
dge; so that the recent threat of =.
, capture and destruction of that .
'nderful Jail, by the people of ~,
does not so much alarm :,
1T amuses us.
The Court House and Jail are as h,
accessible as the forts of Quebec, m
] as long az Larry Cayton is mar al
II, and his voice is preserved him u,
raising the "Riot Alarm" there n,
no danger to be apprehended from N
Ii with handkerchiets over their cl
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