The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-06-08
HANGED TO A TREE.
After Night of Rioting and Blood
shed at Urbana, O.,
A Mob Takes Click Mitchell From Jail
and Strings Him Up-The Sheriff and \
Captain, Who Are Responsible for
Firing ON the Rob, Flee for
Their Lives.

URBANA. o., June 4-"Cliea" Mitch
ell, by his own confession, stands
convicted of one of the most henious
and revolving crimes human being
can be charged with.
/ Immediately after dinner Thursday
Judge Heiserman instructed Sheriff
McLain to impanel grand jury at
once to consider the case against
Mitchell In the absence Of tie Prose-
cutting Attorney, S. S. Deaton, who is
away on legal business, the court ap-
pointed Attorney George Waite assist
ant prosecuting attorney to conduct
the proceedings before the special
grand jury.
> The sheriff was just - minutes in
impaneling the jury. At $50 the jury
was sworn in by Judge Heiserman,
whose charge was brief, but to the
point, and related entirely to the
Mitchell case.
The jury, after examining DIR. Rob-
ert Henderson Mrs. Gaumer's ply
sician), Bruce and Charles E. Gaumer,
adjourned at o'clock until 7:30 Thurs
day evening. At $50 the grand jury
returned an Indictment for criminal Is
sault against Charles Mitchell.
The grand jury had scarcely left the
courthouse until arrangements were
completed for the arrangement and
trial of young Mitchell. All the prin-
cipal doors in the house were locked
and bolted, and mem bers of the guard
were stationed in the halls at the same
on the inside. All the other members
OF Company D were lined up on the
outside ready to repulse any attack.
the courthouse in the custody of Sher-
iff McLane and Deputy Kirby, sur
rounded by square of the guards.
He was hustled upstairs into the
courtroom without the knowledge of
the thousands of men who stood out
side. Death-like silence prevailed dur
ing the proceedings, which did not last
five minutes. Mitchell remained stand
ing, and was evidently quite scared.
The court then appointed Mr..
Flaugher to defend him. In response
to the question of the court as to
whether the defendant would waive
the reading of the Indictment Mitch
ellis attorney answered in the affirma-
tive.
Mitchell pleaded guilty. The court
then at once sentenced him to 90 years
confinement in the Ohio penitentiary,
the limit of the law.
Mitchell was hurried back to Jail
and the immense crowd on the outside
was none the wiser of what had taken
place 1t was part of the plan of
Sheriff McLain and his deputy, Harry
Kirby, to spirit Mitchell into a car
riage and drive him to Hagenbaugh
station or Woodstock, and there board
the eastbound Panhandle, which ar
rives in Columbus at about midnight.
The exciting incidents of the last
two days had an unfortunate and de-
plorable elimination at 2:30 Friday
morning. The disorganized mob of
/, 500 stood on the streets all night
yelling and perfectly willing to lynch
brute in human form guilty of a
fiendish crime
The mob had been slowly advancing
all night nearer and nearer to the jail.
The guards were crowded closer to the
building as the night advanced. FL
nally dozen men or more got onto
some steps leading to the back en-
trance in the jail.
A-fellow with big sledge hammer,
he had been carrying all night under
his coat, blazed away at the door,
Knocking it in. At that instant the
guards, who were stationed inside the
building, opened fire, and at least 20
shots were poured promiscuouslv into
the crowd.
The man who carried the sledge
hammer escaped without injury, but a
young man named Higgins or Hagans
dropped dead, shot through the body.
The crowd scattered instantly. Dur
ing the few seconds in which the firing
took place some deplorable work was
done. Harry Bell, son of Smith Bell,
of this city, and the man Higgins,
whose identity can not be esta blished,
died almost instantly.
The following were wounded: Zach
Wank, of Urbana, shot in the hip, his
wound considered fatal; DIR. Charles
Thompson, of North Lewisburg, shot
in the forehead; Dennis Graney, of
Urbana, shot in the right foot; Sher.
man S. Deaton, the prosecuting at
torney, shot in the hip; Wesley Bowen,
of Cable, shot in the hip; Gus Weiser,
Urbana, face wound; Geo. Ellicott,
superintendent electric light plant,
face wound; Ray Dickerson. living
east of town, shot in the shoulder;
Ray Mcclure, Urbana, shot in the right
arm; Ralph McComb, shot in the arm.
Most of those injured were standing
In the streetand were spectators.
Gov. Bushnell has just ordered one
of the Springfield companies here.
Quiet prevails here now.
COLUMBUS, o., June 5.-A special to
the Dispatch from Urbana says:
Click" Mitchell, the Negro brute,
has paid the penalty of his foul crime
with his life. An outraged people
have taken the law into their own
hands and meted out to Mitchell the
punishment he so richly deserved, and
have obeyed the command and wish
of his prostrate, and as is announced
dying victim.
The sensational and unfortunate
ayanfc Of tho pinhf in A.