The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-28

Ihey were het Ny u foiiey Er"h 49,"
ohesters in the Hands of Deputy sheriffs
and Two Men Were Instantly Killed.
Tiffin. O.. Oct. 27.-In an attempt early
this morning to avenge the murder of
August Schultz, Tiffin's popular city
marshal, who was shot down in cold
blood by Leander j. Martin, alias Will
liams, farmer of Hopewell township,
last Wednesday evening, two more vic
Tins were added to the tragic affair,
AT 80 o'clock mob of $50 men, many
of whom were under the influence of Ii
quor, attacked the Jail in an effort to
secure Martin and hang him. A volley
from a half-dozen Wlinchesters met
them and two of the mob were killed.
\ They are Henry Mutchler, jro and
Christian Matz
N AT daylight crowds began to gather
V in the vicinity of the Jail and Sheriff
8 Van Nest called out Company c, Six
n teenth regiment, to maintain order
This company is not numerically strong
s and the sheriff telegraphed Governor
a Mckinley for more troops. The COVER
NOR ordered three additional companies
a to the scene. During the day one COM
\ pany each came from Fremont and San
4 dusky and tonight the company from
\ Kenton arrived
1t is not believed that further trouble
4 will occur. yet the friends of the men
4 killed threaten vengeance to the guards
y who fired on the mob Martin was spir-
\ ited away to Fremont long before day
4 light, but this the people refused to be-
X lieve. The names of the guards who
fired the fatal volley are known to the
sheriff.
Three hundred troopers guard the jail
tonight
Martin runs small farm near Wat
son station, six miles south of town.
"wednesday he got into controversy
with the fifteen-year-old son of a neigh
boring farmer, struck the boy with his
fist and then nearly strangled him. The
boy afterward reached town and told
his story to the police.
Officer Patrick Sweeny and Marshal
Schultz started for the Martin farm to
arrest Martin. When they got to Mar
tins house Martin opened fire on them
from a window. The officers blazed
away in return, but before more than
half dozen shots had been fired both
officers had fallen. Schultz died in
stantly. Sweeny received two wounds,
which We're not fatal, and retreated.
Reinforcements arrived later from town
and Martin surrendered. The news
of the death of Schultz caused the wild
est excitement in town and among the
neighboring farms, where the dead man
was well known and liked. Schultz's
funeral was held yesterday and was
largely attended by townspeople and
farmers from miles around. After the
the services there was much talk among
the populace, and it was noticed as
evening drew on that few of the farmers
had departed for home.
There was considerable drinking
among the town crowd and plenty of
talk about lynching Martin, but it was
not taken seriously. Sheriff Van Nest
had, however, taken the precaution to
place four or five guards in the Jail and
arm them with Winchesters. At mid
night most of the saloons closed the
town was apparently quiet and nearly
everybody had disappeared.
Out at the old fair grounds, one mile
east of the Jail and court house, how
ever, an exciting midnight scene was
being enacted. Belated residents MAX
ing for home in that locality noticed
groups of men in various parts of the
grounds. The groups were augmented
every few minutes by the arrival of
people from various parts of the city
and county. Shortly after 1 o'clock
there was a concerted move and the
mob, which had found leader, started
into the city. The night was dark and
the shadows cast by the big trees which
lined the streets through which the mob
marched added to the gloom.
The mob arrived in the rear of the
Jail at half-past one. After a wait of
two or three minutes the mob with a
terrific yell rushed through the yard
between the Seneca county court house
and the Jail and in twinkling were
demanding entrance to Sheriff Van
Nests official residence and the jail
Many members of the mob had obtain
ed sledge-hammers, with which they
quickly demolished the light door which
led to the corridor between the sheriff's
residence and the Jail proper.
The men surged inside the jail Sher-
iff Van Nest and his deputies were
prepared for intruders. The sheriff, re-
volver in hand, met the first of the
mob and demanded their instant with
drawal on penalty of the law and bodily
harm if they ventured further, but he
was overpowered and his weapon was
wrested from his grasp. The law
breakers imagined that the remainder
of their work would be easy. But they
counted without the heavily armed six
deputy sheriffs who had been placed in
an advantageous position insidk the
Jail to resist the taking of the prisoner
at all hazards
The mob was not aware even of the
presence of these extra jail guards
The mob soon broke open the solid steel
door which separated them from the
inner part of the Jail. After pleading
and threats had failed to get the men
to desist the guards fired their reviewers
into the ceiling. The sound of the firing
did not make the crowd finch AS
last resort the guards turned their
rifles directly upon the attacking party
and poured a volley of lead into its
midst.
Henry MutchIer ir and Cbrictiap