Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-26

rumored, and 1t was expected some of the
hot-headed would come down on the train
None did so. however, but quite a crowd of
men and boys boarded it at Rockville and
had the supreme satisfaction of seeing
Sheriff Collier and Mr.. kelchner, with Ran
dolph and Neale, get ahaard the train at
Aubrey Park, bound for baltimore.
There was quite a diversity of opinion
here as to the wisdom of Sheriff Golfers
course. The wiser heads, who wanted proof
of an absolute character before proceeding
TO extreme measures, said 1t was wrong,
because the removal would increase the
feeling against the men, and pointed out
that most deplorable event would have
occurred If the crowd that started to i'm
pede the course Of the carriage in School
House lane had been larger and stronger.
An Exciting Night In Rockville.
Others were loud in their denunciation
and declared the men ought to have been
hung, and that they would have been if al
lowed to remain in Rockville over night,
while a few were downright glad that moth
ing more exciting was to be in progress
II. Rockville last night than coIored picnic
and ball at the fair grounds
1t Is probable that the men would have
been lynched had they not been remov ed
by . o'clock farmers and others residing
IN the county began to enter Rockville and
there was vehement denuncation of the
sner1H for spirting the prisoners away.
n.
until at 10 o'clock half hundred men and
youths from Gaithersburg came down.
ne streets were crowded as though 1t was
midday In fair week. Nervous women were
shocked into Mysteries by the throngs that
surged up and down and talked loudly 1t
was Z o'clock this morning before things
quoted down. News from the victims did
not serve to allay the anger of the null
t H 1t was first said that neither Mr.
Buxton nor his two daughters could sur
VlVe the night, and then the rumor spread
mat Sadie was dead This sort of gossip
ana the contents of numerous TASKS in
creased the eagerness of the more reckless
eiement Tor vengeance, and caused more
emphatlc excoriation CT the sheriff.
me removal was good thing for the
suspected mel, good thing for Mont
gOmery county, and an especiaIIy good
thing for Rockville.
mere were men in Rockville yesterday
VINO felt that any attempt to visit ven
seahce on the suspects would lead to race
RIOT ana they were glad when Collier act
ca. Inc negroes here are strong in their
aLeeiance to one another, and yesterday
and last night they were gathered in great
numbers at the picnic above mentioned
rarm hands and walters. laborers and me-
chanics were out in force, and there were
pottles galore and frequent tasting thereof
!here were mutterings, too, as the inten-
tlons OF the whites regarding Randolph
ana ana Neaie were dtyinedv and so it is well
,hey were not given the opportunity to be
carried out. For there would have been
armed.
/ Condition of the Victims.
This morning it wasbIearned that DR.. j.
Ford Thompson OF Washington had ex-
amined the victims OF. the crime, and had
given 1t as his opinion that the wounds of
the two Buxton girls we're necessarily fatal,
WINE there was but remote chance for
the recovery of the father.
BELIEVE THEM, INNOCENT.
Officers Fail to Connect Suspects
With the Crime.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
GAITHERsBURG, Md, May 26.-When
Detectives Horne and Weldon reached
here from Washington yesterday after
| noon they saw a misunderstanding
crowd of citizens standing on the county
road only short distance from the station.
These citizens stood about in groups and
discussed the horrible crime Of yesterday
morning. They had concluded that the two
men locked up in the Rockville jail were
the guilty parties, and that further inves-
tigation was useless. What concerned them
more than anything else was what should
be done last night.
Meal has been sent down to Rockville
once BEFORE" said one of the Infatuated
citizens. land they sent him back to US,
| and We don't intend 20 have him again. He's
bad man, and We must get rid of him.
The question of the mans Innocence never
entered the minds of those who favored
lynch law. In the words Of one of the Off