The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-01-08
ESCAPED
tLYNCHIgG.
Frank Thomas Narrow ESCAPE
From a Mob.
SAVED ~ The stat. Ig!gtg,Vs
The Fiend Who Murderously
Assaulted Mrs. Ball Safely
- Placed Behind the sd
Prison Bars. ~ssT

Frank Thomas, the colored fond, who
murderously assaulted Mrs. Ball at Stan.
ton, as stated in yesterdays REPUBLICAN,
owes his life to-day to Detectives Money
and Witsil. Yesterday afternoon as soon
as the REPUBLICAN appeared with the
only true account of the outrage and an
offer of $50 reward for the mans arrest
another searching party started on the
hunt OF the man,
While Edward Brown was going to.
wards Newark in his wagon he met
Thomas returning to Stanton. The farmer
compelled him to get into the wagon and
the would-be murderer was driven to tho
Ball residence, where mob had returned
after disappointed hunt.
The men were angered beyond restraint
and were about to lynch Thomas as Mo.
Vcy and Witsil arrived on the scene.
I king in the scene at a.glance they dash
ed through the crowd and rescued the man
at tina point of their reyolvers The de.
tectives fearing that the crowd would at
tempt to take the man away from them
secured a carriage and drove to this CITY
and avoided the crowd that had collected
In Stanton.
The man had scarcely been placed in the
cell at the City Hall when reports began
to come in that an armed band of enrag.
ed ctizons were about to come to this
lynch him. Chief Dolan was on the abort
but no crowd appeared and no lynching
took place.
Mrs. Balls condition to-day is much
improved and by care she will BIZ able
to appear against the man in n few days.
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City Court.
1t was $40 o clock when Judge Ball or
dered crer Heal to open court. The first
IN "a led WAS tbut pf pntrink Kapnadv
charged with. beingd!sorderly. At 10 o clock
yesterday morning his wife was washing
and he cursed her and carried on with a
high hand, He has been sober for the
past three months. Unless he pays S5
and COSTS he Will spend 40 days in Finn.
town.
Thomas strain, was arraigned on tho
charge Of disOrderly conduct. Frank
Ridgely, colored testified that last night
while on Tatnall street between Fifth and
Sixth street he asked for light aud
Strain drew his revolver and he ran
away.
John Adams, colored, was at party on
west Fifth street Strain entered witha
revolver. As he was put out the revolver
was discharged.
Thomas j. Kelley deposod that Strain
placed the pistol against his breast and
later saw the pistol fired. Strain WAS
Ignorant OF the facts, lie was fined $50
and costs. The charge of carrying a CON-
cealei deadly weapon was thon taken up,
and he was held in 500 bail for the upper
court.
Joseph Reynolds was charged by Officer
White with vaErancy. He was fined 50
and costs and in default will spend 80 days
in Jail.
Frank CorcOran and Thomas Fahey
were charged with the larceny of lot If
brass.
Officers Maloney and Shields made the
arrest while in a junk shop cellar with the
brass.
VIM. Barker deposcd to seeing Corcoran
at his shop on Tuesday and Offering 10
sell a lot of brass to him.
Detective jones identified part of the
brass as being the property of the P, w.
81 b, r. r. Co. About 100 pounds Of
brass valued at IS was recovered
Fahey took the stand and deposed that
he met Corcoran with the brass He was
Informed that he was to get quarter for
wheeling the brass to the junk shop. He
heard Barker tell Corooran to put the
brass in the cellar,
Corooran deposed that at Lord and Lom-
bard he met two men named Doyle and
Rogers and they offered him q quarter to
W hsel the brass to Barker's shop.
Fahey helped him to do so and he knew
nothing about the case
Of1icer Maloney dep0sed that the two
men with Corcoran were Haggerty and
Garden and not the msn mentioned by
Corooran. No evidence of the p w. &c
B, Railroad Company having lost brass
had been given or that 1t was taken in
this city Corcoran was held in 800 bail
for the upper court.
Joseph Dugan, William Matthews and
] John Norton were charged with tho lar.
osny Of lot of pipes and tobacco from
store at Fourth and Lombard streets, on
December 90 They wore hold in 500 bail
to appear tomorrow morning.
Special Officer Collins charged John
honiskl u boy, with trespass on the prop
erty Of the W. & N. Railroad Company,