The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-06-19
suRRENOEREDTO THE MOB
AFTER THE SHOOTING
Sheriff and Military at Urbana
Were Seemingly Terrorized
by Their Own Acts.
GOV. BUSHNELL INVESTIGATES
Oficers Gave Up the Fight and
Threw the Keys to h Jait
to the acknowledgements
Still Great.

Urhana, O., June 7.-Governor Bush
nell arrived here last night to investi-
gate the trouble n especially the &C
ton of the troops. While the Urbana
Is overwhelmed with local SEN
timent against their action. they are
also liable for abandoning their post of
duty. Captain Leonard withdrew the
guards about Z a. m. and the Springfield
took orders from the ago
instead of the sheriff when they turned
back from the court house.
Governor Bushnell was waited on by
a delegation from here at Columbus
yesterday afternoon. They asked for
protection by troops OF Sheriff McLain,
against whose life threats Ia been
freely made during the day.
Sheriff McLain left here at 2 D.. m.
enroute to Dayton. He escaped by the
back door of the Jail and claims tina
dynamite was being prepared to blow
him up. In the excitement and bitter
ness that prevailed last night it was al
most impossible to get at the facts as to
the responsibility for the loss OF life, but
1t is generally claimed hat Sheriff Nc
Lain ordered the troops to fire.
There is much dispute as to what &C.
Cured inside the Jail from midnight un-
til the time of the l%ynching. When the
first attack was made on the Jail at 1870
a. m. a dozen men mounted the rear
steps of the Jail and two of them used
sledge hammers on the doors. The To-
cal militia company vas under arms on
the inside with Sheriff McLain and his
deputies. Captain George w. Leonard
then stepped out and said:
II will give you three minute to dis
perse. If you 10 not do so l must fire."
The crowd evidently believed that
Sheriff McLain had then already or
dered the troops to fire and they dis
persed. But when the attack was re-
newed on the rear door of the Jail with
sledges the firing took place and the
crowd dispersed, leaving their dead and
wounded.
1t was shortly after 8 o'clock when
Sheriff McLain ~telegraphed Governor
Bushnell at Wooster, o., that a mob had
attacked the Jail; that he had opened
fire; that his force was inadequate and
that assistance was needed at once. 1t
is believed that there will be a thor
ough investigation into the action of
the mayor. as well as into the action of
the sheriff and military officers.
MTS. dauIler IL the WIDOW OF q well
known newspaper publisher. Her
brothers-in-law are d. H. Gaumer, pub
Usher of the GAINESVILLE Signal and an
eX-state senator, and c. N. Gaumer,
formerly publisher of the Mansfield
Shield, and an eX-state representative.
Mitchell was % years old and a hotel
porter. He bought milk at the dairy
of Mrs. Gaumer and knew she was
alone while her children We're at school,
and deliberately studied his opportu-
nifty for %assaulting her.
1t was learned that Sheriff McLain
and Captain Leonard left yesterday aft
ernoon at the request of citizens, who
feared they We're in danger of violence.
They took upper at Springfield and
left at 1880 on the Big -Four express for
Cincinnati, but would not tell where
they Were going. After the fatalities
of the night it is known that Sheriff Nc
Lain and Captain Leonard decided be-
fore daylight that there would be no
more shooting. The guards were re-
moved and the militia went to their
homes in citizens clothes. Before this
evacuation the keys of the Jail were
thrown from a window tc the mob.
Mayor Ganson ordered Mitchelrs
body removed Immediately after the
l%ynching, but so strong was the feeling
that the crowd would not allow the po-
lice to touch the coffin till after dark
last night, when Mitchell's body was
removed to some unknown place.