The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-05
LEAD POURED INTO LYNcHERS.
TWO KILLED AND TEN WOUNDED
By TROOPS AT URBANA.

Further Trouble Feared GOV.
Bushnell Sends Outside Troops to
the Scene Too Late to BE of Any
Service.
Urbana, o., June 4.-Two men were kill
ed, and ten wounded by a company of the
Ohio National Guard at this place at 2SO
o'clock this morning.
Dead
HARVEY BELL of Urbana, shot in the
head, instantly killed.
UPTON BAKER, farmer, living north
of Urbana.
Fatally wounded:
WESLEY BOWEN of Cable shot in the
hip.
groin and leg.
Less seriously wounded:
DENNIS GRANEY of Urbana, right
foot slight.
DIR. CHARLES THOMSON of North
Lewisburg. head slightly.
S. S. DEATON of Urbana shoulder, Sc
rous.
JOHN MKEEvER of Urbana, right
arm painful.
RAY MCCLURE of Urbana, right arm,
painful.
The soldiers were attempting to save
Charles Mitchell the colored assailant of
Mrs. Eliza Gaumer from the hands of an
infuriated mob, but their efforts were un-
availing.
Mitchell was taken from the jail at 1880
o'clock this morning and hanged to a tree
in the court yard. The two previous nights
and yesterday portended the gravest dan
ger, but no such results were anticipated
as those within the five hours from 2:SO to
730 a. m. to-day.
Those killed by the militia were specta-
tors at the scene of the excitement. In ad-
dition to this list, it is feared that Mrs.
Eliza Gaumer, who was criminally assault
ed by the negro win not recover and sew
oral of the injured are in serious condi-
ton.
There is intense feeling against some
of the officials and further complications
are apprehended While the past two
nights and days witnessed scenes of law
lessness and b.odshed, yet the feeling at
no time has been as intense as it is here
tonight.
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IN a rough coffin and it intensified the
feeling among the masses.
The citizens who were killed will be
buried Sunday and their funerals will tend
to keep alive the bitter feeling. Several
of the wounded are crippled for life.
One week ago to-day. Mrs. Gaumer was
crminaily assaulted in daylight at her
home in this city, near the court house.
Mrs Gaumer was prostrated.
She felt the disgrace and requested her
son to announce that she was assaulted for
robbery. 1t was given out that Mitchell
attempted to force her to sign check for
$500
But as Mrs. Gaumer's condition became
more serious, the facts became known, and
also that the negro was afflicted with
loathsome disease.
Mitchell was first held for robbery, but
on last Wednesday, he was arraigned for
criminal assault. Mrs. Gaumer was un
able to appear in court, and the hearing
was held at her home.
As Mitchell entered her room, she raised
up in bed and exclaimed: 1.-The brute!
hang him! How dare you face me again,
you brute!'
Soon after the incident on Wednesday
there was talk of lynching. Crowds sur
rounded the Jail at night and the sheriff
and local militia had trouble in protecting
the prisoner.
Yesterday a grand jury was empaneed,
and it soon returned an indictment for
criminal assault. Mitchell, disguised in
from jail into court. He waived the read
ing of the indictment, pleaded guilty, and
was promptly sentenced to twenty years
in the penitentiary, the limit for criminal
assault.
The trial was over before o'clock last
night when an attempt was made to take
Mitchell to Columbus on the train az 10
p. m. But the crowds were about the
court house and jail, and when the car
rage drove up. the crowd made a rush
fer the jail. The military drove the peo-
ple back, but the crowd soon increased in
fury, as well as numbers, so that Sheriff
Mclean and the troops had all they could
do to hold the Jail. and the trip to Colum-
bus was given up before the departure OF
The last train.
II was 1885 a. m. when the first attack
was made on the jail. The soldiers open
Ell fire on the mob and twenty volleys
were poured into the advancing crowd.
-Four were killed and ten wounded.
Tho attacking party retired, but the
sight Of the dead and Injured infuriated
them, and the crowd soon rallied.
The final attack on the jail was made
al Z o'clock this morning. The local
company. which did the shooting. had
heen on duty for two nights. and re-
quest was sent to Gov. Bushnell for re-
inioroements lie ordered a company from
Springfield to the scene. and they arrived
before o'clock.
Mayor Ganson met the soldiers and
cent them back 70 the depot, saying that
'ney were not wanted The local com
Ihny was also withdrawn from the jail
about this time.
The mob. which had grown In numbers