The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-21
TARRED AND
| FEATHERED!
Ducked in The Mill
Race!
BEATEN WITH CLUBS!
Frightened and Intimidated!
AND DRIVEN FROM THE TOWN.
BEATEN WITH CLUBS!
Frightened and Intimidated!
AND DRIVEN FROM The TOWN.
A Mob Drives Ed. and Mel Jack.
son And Dave Hickman Out
of West Liberty.

| WeSt Liberty seems TO De Ver1taDle
storm centre of sensations. Friday
night the storm burst with unusual
fury on the heads of Ed. Jackson, color
ed, his daughter-in-law Nell, white,
and Dave Hickman, colored.
Ed. Jackson has been citizen of the
place for several years, and has run
a livery stable. Mel. Jackson is u
white woman, and is the widow of
Grant Jackson the son of Ed, who was
mobbed and afterward killed, at West
Liberty. Dave Hickman, IS citizen
of Bellefontaine, who has family here,
and is charged with being frequent
visitor of the woman. Hickman has an
unsavory reputation here, having been
in number of escapades.
The Jacksons have had an unsavory
reputation, and the house has rep
utation as a 'fence," where stolen ar
ticles are said to be hidden. Hickman
has bad use of his mouth, and he no
doubt provoked the citizens of the
town, by his use of it.
Friday morning, at 800 o'clock, the
barn of Marshal Krabill, of the town,
was burned by cendiaries. There was
said to be strong evidence of the guilt
| of Hickman and the woman, and they
were arrested Friday forenoon, and
thrown into the town calaboose, on
charge of arson.
When the mob went to arrest these
parties, old man Jackson resisted, and
was arrested and thrown into the Gala
boose on charge of resisting the
officers.
Saturday morning, about one o'clock,
a mob of about hundred persons got
| together in one of the streets of the city,
| and sent a committee, to the home of
| the Marshal, to obtain the keys of the
calaboose. Marshal Krabill refused to
give up the keys, and on the report of
| the committee the mob went to the
blacksmith shop of Mr.. Wade, broke
it open, and obtained hammers, iron
and other tools to open the Jail door.
They then marched to the Town Hall,
broke in two wooden doors, and the
iron door of the calaboose, and hauled
the three trembling prisoners from
their cage.
Ropes were put around their necks,
and the prisoners were frightened
nearly to death, and pleaded piteously
for mercy. Especially was this the
case with Rickman. The mob divided
into three gangs, the first one taking
the woman, the second one Hickman,
and the third the old man. They were
each led to the mill race. Marching
through the town with their prisoners.
hooting, bowling, and firing pistols,
they made a racket that would have
walked a mummy, but not a man nor
woman could there be seen on the
streets.
| Arriving at the mill-race, Nell Jack
son was stripped of all her clothing,
and was given coating of tar and
feathers. She begged them not to put
any on her face, but her beauty was
not spared. She was then compelled
to march mp and down the race, which
had about three feet of water in it, un-
then made to sit down on the bank, and
witness the same thing administered
to her paramour and her father-in-law.
Hickman was given a castigation with
| -, so1r
and ct ceteras. The old man followed,
was given a like treatment, and all
three were then compelled to parade
up and down the mill-race.
After this, the trio were ordered to
from in line, and without any oppor-
tunity to don any of their wardrobe,
whatever, were marched through the
town, up the hill, and started for Belle
fontaine, amid the jeers and hootings
and firing of revolvers by the mob.
The woman threw herself on the
gound, refusing to go, but was whipped
till she was compelled to go on.
A mile or so out of town, Jackson got
| dress for the woman and overalls and
7 other clothing for himself, and came
on to Bellefontaine.
Hickman came on to Bellefontaine
clad ony in the sable garments of night
i and probably wouldn't have stopped tt
have put them on if he had been offered
an entire suit of clothes.
q Jackson, on arriving here. went t,
Rickman's, and the woman went to he
sisters. The trio were badly cut u
and bruised, and sent for physicians
They complain of terrible treatment
and Hickman complained that one G
> his eyes was almost knocked out.
Grant Jackson, son of Ed. Jackson
and husband of Mel, was tar and featt
cred about twelve years ago for insult
ing white women and other objection
able conduct, and ordered to leav
the town. But he went back, an
,r about seven years ago was killed. HI
wife was degraded woman long befor
she married Grant.
in Saturday night the town of We
Liberty was full of colored people WI