The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-28

1eduS W tuo COrrIuOr between the SnerlII
residence and Jail proper. This obstacle
was demolished with a few sharp blows
and the bloodthirsty mob surged inside
| the jail
| Sheriff Van Ness and his deputies were
| prepared for intrnders. He met the first
part of the mob and demanded its instant
| withdrawal on penalty of the law and
bodily harm if it ventured further. The
| brave officer faced the Infatuated throng,
revolver in hand, but he was overpowered
by the reckless and partly intoxicated mob
and his weapon wrested from his grasp.
| The law-breakers, elated over their ap-
! parently easy progress toward the object
| OF their attack. imagined that the remain
| der of their fatal work would be as easy
But they counted without the determined
and heavily armed body of six deputy
sheriffs who had been sworn in by the
chief peace officer of the county after the
| arrest of Martin, Shultz' murderer, and
placed in an advantageous position inside
the jail, with ironclad orders to resist the
taking of the prisoner at all hazards. The
mob was not aware even of the presence of
these extra Jail guards.
After gaining access to the hallway and
| overpowerlng the Sheriff the mob soon
broke open the solid steel door which sepa-
| rated it from the jail. Behind this is a
heavy, semi-circular barred door, which
was attacked with sledge hammers After
| pleading and threats had failed to get the
men to desist the guards fired into the
ceiling. The sound OF the firearms did not
make the crowd finch. AS last resort
the guards, following the command of the
Sheriff, turned their death-dealing weap-
ons direct upon the attacking party and
poured volley of lead into its midst.
The volley of six Winchester balls
brought death to Henry Mutchler Jr. and
Christian Matz. They fell lifeless where
| they had stood helping in the work of bat
terlng down the obstacles to the cell in
which Martin lay crouching in fear of
his life being taken away before the judg-
ment of the law. The bodies of the two
men were carried away by their comrades
This tragic check served only to add
to the fury of the mob. The work OF
demolition was brought to stop only be-
cause certain members of the mob had
gone from the scene of lawlessness to
secure dynamite with which to destroy the
jail and its hated inmates
While the vain search for the terrible
explosive was in progress, Police Officers
Sweeney and Faulkner went to Martins
cell, unlocked the door, handcuffed him
and took him from the Jail by rear door
which the mob had not thought of guard
Ing. The hunted prisoner and his guards
entered waiting cab at the door and
were driven at furious pace to Fremont,
| twenty-four miles distant. The murderer
was locked in the Jail there temporarily.
! When his presence there became known it
was deemed advisable to remove him to
cleveland, and he was taken there by
train tonight, The guards who had car
ried out the orders OF their superior Off
| GERS and upheld the law with such terrible
effect disappeared from the jail as soon as
word came that Martin was safely on the
| way to Fremont.
| The mob quickly learned that the object
OF its vengeance was no longer within
| reach and slowly dispersed after the hunt
for dynamite had proved fruitless. Baffied
in the plot to lynch the slayer of the
Marshal, the mob's rage and threats of
| vengeance were directed against the depu-
ties who had killed TWO of their number
They tried to find the officers and learn
| their identity but their names are known
to the Sheriff and few trusted persons
only.
With the break of day excited crowds
began to gather again in the vicinity of
| the JAIL and Sheriff Van Ness found it
necessary to call out the local company of
the Ohio National Guard, as well as to
apply to Governor Mckinley for additional
companies. The crowd which swarmed
outside the Jail refused to believe the pris-
oner had been removed, and laughed at
the several committees of citizens who
gave the interior of the structure a thor
ough inspection and reported that the
murderer was not there.
A company of militia arrived tonight
from Toledo and went into camp in the vi
cinity of the JAIL where the other four
companies of the National Guard are on
duty, making an armed force of trained
men sufficient to repel any attack which
even an organized and heavily armed mob
might make upon the Jail. Colonel Kuert
of Toledo, as ranking officer, assumed
| charge of the militia, and the situation at
q late hour gives no indication of another
outbreak.
Mutchler was % years old and laborer.
He was drunk during the night and was
| loud in agitating lynch law. Matz was 80
| years old and butcher. Neither was
| married.
| 1t is expected that the Campbell cam
paign-meeting, tomorrow will attract
| large crowd to the city, and that there
still being made to blow up the jail to
avenge the shooting of the men.
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