The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-06-10
HANGED TO A TREE.
After q Night Of Riotng and Blood.
shed at Urbana, O.,
~ Mob Takes Click Mitchell From Jail
& and Strings Him Up-The Sheriff and
~ Captain, Who Ar. Rssponstbie for
Firing on the Mot, Flee for
Their Lives.

I'll, by his own confession, stands
eonvicted of one OF the most henious
and revolving crimes human being
ean be charged with.
Immediately ter dinner Thursday
Judge Heiserman instructed Sheriff
McLain to impanel grand jury at
fOnce to consider the case against
Mitchell In the absence of the Prose-
fcuting Attorney, 5. 5. 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
sgrand jury.
The sheriff was just 12 minutes in
limpaneling the jury. At $3.50 the jury
twas sworn in by Judge Heiserman,
Whose charge was brief, but to the
l,poiut, and related entirely to the
Mitchell case.
The Jury, after examining DIR. Rob-
fert Henderson Mrs. Gaumer's ply
sician) Bruce and Charles E. Gaumer,
\ ad djourned at o'clock until 1880 Thurs
day evening. At $40 the grand jury
\ Returned an indictment for criminal as
sault against Charles Mitchell
The grand jury had scarcely left the
4 courthouse until arrangements were
completed for the arraignment and
trial of young Mitchell. All the prin-
cipal doors in the house were locked
and bolted, and members of the guard
were stationed in the halls at the same
on the inside. Ali the other members
of Company d were lined up on the
4 outside ready to repulse any attack.
hn ian to
the courthouse in the custody of Sher-
iff McLane and Deputy Kirby, sur
rounded by IA 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 Gid not last
1--WE minutes. Mitchell remained stand
ing, and was evidently quite scared.
The court then appointed MIR.
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 athrma-
tive.
Mitchell pleaded guilty. The court
then at once sentenced him to 20 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 hir to Hagen baugh
taf WnoISfnnlf
the eastbound Pan handle, 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
l, 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
4 nally a 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 promiscuously into
the crowd.
The man who carried the sledge
hammer escaped without injury, but
young man named Higgins or Hagans
hot fhrnnrh
The crowd scattered instantly. Dur
ing the few seconds in which the firing
took place some deplorable work was
done. Harry Bell, On 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, sho,
in the forehead; Dennis Graney, OF
Urbana, shot in the right foot; Sher
man S. Deaton, the prosecuting at
torney. snot in the nip; 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 righ
arm; Ralph McComb, shot in the arm
Most of those injured were standing
in the street and were spectators.
Gov. Bushnell has just ordered ont
of the Springfield companies here
Quiet prevails here now.
COLUMBUS, O., June 5-A special u
the Dispatch from Urbana says:
"Click" Mitchell, the Negro brute
has paid the penalty of his foul crim'
with his life. An outraged people
have taken the law into their owl
hands and meted out to Mitchell thu
punishment he so richly deserved, ant
have obeyed the command and wisl
: of his prostrate, and as is announced