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

At Washington c. IL, ohio-CoIonsI Colt
Refuses to Testify Ia the Riot Cass-Ao
Pears LynohlnE BY n Mob.
CoLuMBUs, O., Nov. l4.-S!rapge events
are brewing at Warrington Court House.
Colonel Colt refuses. by advice OF his
attorneys, to 20 70 Fayetts county to DO
examined as y witness by the coroner
concerning the part the Fourteenth
Ohio National Guard took in obedience
to orders Of Governor Mckinley to Us.
sist Sheriff COOK in protecting Dolby,
negro, who had boen sentenced 10
twenty years In the penltentiary. In
giving that protection four persons were
killed and about dozen wounded by
the military firing upon the mob when
It had broken open the doors Of the
court house to get at the negro.
Col. Colts attorneys. Hon. George x.
Nash and Henry j. Booth, assure the
governor that Colts lie would be placed
in jeopardy by going. The coroner de-
clined TO come 10 Columbus to take
Colts deposition, insisting that he shsll
90 there. Leading law-abidiug citizens
OF Washington G. II. have assured the
governor privately that II Ceit were to
20 there he and Sheriff Cook no doub!
would be thrown into Jail, charged with
murder, after which the coroner would
become sheriff ex.ofFicio, aud that the
men whose friends were killed would
ride tho county and gather a mob, and
both Colt and Cook, and especially Colt,
would be dragged from the Jail and
lynehed.
Governor Mckinley has assured Dol.
Colt that II he were to go and 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 IL: "What good would
that do my wife and family, after had
been Jailed or lynchedY
Lieut.. Col. ". T. n. barrow, grad
uate OF West Point, but now a citizen
here and an officer Of the Fourteenth
regiment, o. N G., said that tho regi.
ment would not suffer Colt to be in
jured, and asked the governor to detail
an escort to protect him. Pending this
conversation, and while the governor
was considering some plan by which tho
sending ofthe military might be averted,
Col. barrow said: Governor, the detail
from tho Fourteenth desires to go with
your official sanction. 1fyou cannot see
your way clear to give such sanction,
will have tho regiment 20 as lndivid'
uals aud with guns, to protect the colo
mel in case harm Is offered. In that
event, and il shooting were to occur aud
blood be spilled, the men, 1t would
seem, might be indicted for murder or
shooting with intent to kill"
The situation Is very grave. 1t is 30
grave, indeed, that the representative
OF the Associated Press cannot give the
names Of lRw-abiding aud well-known
men at Washington @. H., whom he
has seen privately, and who are CONFER.
ing privately with the officers OF the
state. Attorneys at Washington Q. H.,
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 BIO
tantamount to making arrangements
to practice law in some other country
All law.abiding mouths in Washington
y. II. are as still as DEATH The other
side Is doing all the talking.
The question which is confronting
the governor 10: Shall sheriff, elect.
cd 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 the Columbus
press, declines to give out for pHblica.
ton letters received from Washington
O. H. from both sides, because OF the
fact that the writer's would be made to
suffer by members OF the mob. In ono
latter he was threatened with assassin
alton il 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
large majority at the recent election.
his part in protecting prisoner against
mob being the argument used by tho
opposition to compass his defeat.