Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-10-31
rroops Called Ont.

Martial law reigned in Tiffin, Ohio, Sun
day night. The CLEAN of musket and bay
onet was seen glancing back the moon
beams on the streets surrounding the
county jail. Morris began, one of the
rioters, assaulted a militiaman guarding
the jail and was taken in custody by the
police, who were followed to the station
by bowling, hooting mob. The Jail
doors are wrecks, having been battered
from their hinges by an armed mob. Two
men, lie dead with bullet wounds in head
and body, one police officer is at home with
probably fatal injuries, two others
are injured and young man has a bullet
through his hand.
Theiattempt to lynch Leander J. Mar
TIM alias MILLER, murderer of City Mar
shall August Shultz, anticipated since the
tragedy, was made in dead earnest rat
1:3O o'clock Sunday morning, and result
ed in the instant death of Mutchler and
Matz, members of the mob which at
tackled the Jail. The rioters exceeded $50
men and most of them were under the in
fuence of liquor at the time.
The mob came from an entirely unex-
pected source. Six men gathered on the
lawn about fifty feet from the Jail and in
a moment about thirty others joined them.
Then a sharp whistle was heard and out
or an alley on the opposite side of the
street and little to the west rushed fully
300 more, the leaders carrying rope and
several sledgehammers with which to ac-
complish their work. A squad of police
men who had stationed themselves on the
steps, were whisked to one side as if they
were so many straws.
A rush was made for the Jail. The men
were without reason and made no demand
for the keys. A powerful teamster WELD
ed the sledge. The door was broken in
splinters in short time. With each blow
the fury of the crowd increased. When
the entrance was gained there was wild
rush and the hallway was filed with ex-
cited men. Sheriff Van Nest and three
men stood in the opposite end. He APP
pealed to them most bravely and strongly
several times, asking them for Gods sake
to dispense. 1t did no good, for the men
only grew fercer. The entrance to the
corridor is first protected by heavy
sheet-iron door. The lock was broken off
with few blows and then there remained
the heavy grating.
Guards Open Fire.
Then it was that the guards, who were
in that portion, began to fire. At first
they shot over the rioters heads. A
guard afterward said the men swore to
kill every person inside, and to show their
purpose they began to fire at them. The
guards said no shot was fired by them I'M
til the attacking party had fired through
the grating first. Henry Mutchler, the
first man killed, was the one who carried
the rope. He was shot through the left
temple, the ball coming out on the right
side, and he died instantly. Then Christ
Matz received bullet through his heart.
He was picked up dead.
The killing of the two men caused a ces-
sation of the attack. Then the mob
thought of dynamiting the Jail and sent
messengers to all the stone quarries in
the city and vicinity, but all returned
without any explosives. While this was
going on Sheriff Van Nest placed Miller
in charge of Captain Falkner and Officer
Sweeney, who drove him at breakneck
speed to Fremont, eighteen miles away,
and placed him in the Sandusky County
jail. 1t was found necessary to call out
the local militia, and as the day advanced
and the news spread to the rural districts
Governor Mckinley was appealed to for
troops, and ordered the two companies
from Kenton, one from Fostoria and an
other from Clyde to go to Tifiin at once.
once.
Story of Martins Crime.
August Schultz, city marshal of Tiffin,
was shot and killed Oct, % by Lee Mar
tin, farmer, whom he and Officer Swee-
ney were attempting to arrest on the
charge of threatening the life Of neigh
Dor. Martin had trouble with his brother
in-law, Abram Sheidler, over q saw-mill
in which both were interested. During a
quarrel Martin drew q gun on Sheidler
and the latter swore out a warrant for
his arrest. The warrant was placed in
the hands of August Schultz, city mar
shall, and Patrick Sweeney, who for more
than twenty years has been on the police
force, and the officers left the city for the
home of Martin. Arriving there they
found Martin armed with Winchester
rifle, and this they succeeded in wrestling
from him, the weapon being discharged in
the conflict. While the officers were con-
Quoting Martin to their carriage he drew
revolver and fired three shots, one O.
which barely missed Sweeney, and tw,
entered the body of Marshal Schultz
With the assistance of Sheidler the off,
GERS succeeded in disarming Martin and
started for the city, and when half of the
distance had haan Morchot