The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-08
FIENDS IN SKINS OF WHITE.
WIFE TAKEN FROM HER HUSBAND
AND OUTRAGED.

The Shocking story From Newport,
Ky.-Elevcn Rufinns Perpetrate
the Crime-Pris0ncrs Identified
and Hustled to MaysviIIe 10 Es-
cape MOb's Wrath-K entucIxy's
Penalty Is Death by Law and Cus-
tOm-AII Held without Bail.
Cincinnati. o. Oct 7.-An angry crowd
gathered about the court house and jail
In Newport, Ky, to-day, upon the am
nouncement of a shocking assault by elev-
en- men upon the wife Of a switchman re-
Gently married. The sheriff was Obliged
to clear the corridors, and threats Of
vengeance were made
Thomas Gleason and his wife started
out the Alexandria pike to visit a friend
last night, when tvs men. with revolvers,
and representing themselves to be Off
GERS, surrounded husband and wife, and
dragged the shrieking woman into field,
where eleven men assaulted her. The pen-
atty for this crime in Kentucky is death.
The men We're given a preliminary hear-
ing before Judge Bennett. who held ten
of them for the grand jury, without bail.
The eleventh has not yet been Identified.
Owing to the excited state of feeling and
the insecurity of the Newport Jail, the
men were ordeted to be taken to Mays.
Vile for safe keeping.
When the time came for the removal Of
the ten prisoners to the Chesapeake and
Ohio depot to take the train for Maysville,
there was such menacing crowd about
the jail that the sheriff called out the en-
tire police force to preserve order. 1t was
with difficulty that the men were taken
to the two wagons which conveyed them
to the depot. The crowd followed closely
after. At the depot, and before the train
arrived, the situation grew more threat
ening. The crowd jeered the prisoners ana
shouts Of don't let them get on that
train" were heard The police finally had
TO charge the yelling crowd to prevent Al
rush at the prisoners. Fortunately the
train soon came, and the men we're safely
embarked
The prisoners are aged from 10 to 30
years mostly without employment. Two
or three are street peddlers, and all are
known to the police as a gang going to-
gether and often drunk and disorderly.
George Greer, Huber Miller,
Edward Hending, Frank Bush Miller.
Harry Bush-Miller John Shannon, Matt
Melner, John Duhfoss and William
Schorle The one last arrested and who
is still in jail awaiting Identification, is
william CroXton He will be brought be-
fore Mrs. Gleason tonight.
The other ten mem were promptly recog-
nized by Mrs. Gleason in the crowded court
room. The men exhibited the most reck-
less bravado one or two being drunk
while I'm court.
Official advices received by wire from
Maysvile, Ky, late tonight are that ten
identified assailants of Mrs. Gleason ar
rived there safely and were securely jail-
ed. The sheriff Of Campbell county, with
deputies and several Newport policemen.
are at Maysvile. There are no visible
symptoms of dangerous excitement ira
Maysville tonight William Croxton, who
was detained at Newport, was identified
by Mrs. Gleason tonight as one of her
assailants. He Is in Newport jail. bus
will be taken to Maysvile tomorrow.
Dangerous excitement has subslded In
Newport, for the present at least.