Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-04-01

Now, gentlemen, you have had your
wish. Please so to your homes"
The high tension at which the nerves of
the crowd had been held during the II
hours OF watching, now snapped, and
with a hearty cheer for Kingsbury, his
I assistants and Company H the crowd
turned back without single hostile
demonstration.
10. II. Westenhaver was a highly re-
spected resident of Hoytville He was
aged about AZ years and leaves wife
and one child. AS an attorney he was
one of the foremost legal talent of the
Wood county bar. He resided for pc
riod of ten years at North Baltimore,
where he served the village as solicitor
one or more terms, with a considerable
degree of credit. In politics he was one
of the leading Democrats of the county.
The bar held meeting this morning
and arrangements were made for the
whole association to attend the funeral
of Mr.. Westenhaver, which will be held
Tuesday at II a. m. at Hoytville, under
the auspices of the I. o. o. F. local So
cety. The remains will be inferred at
North Baltimore.
Clarence Wittenmeyer was q young
man aged Is years, and his untimely
death makes another widow and a faith
erless child in the town of Hoytville.
Deceased was a highly respected citizen
of the town and a member of promin-
ence of Hoytville lodge 463, *. of p. He
was laborer by occupation, and hard
working, industrious man, favorably
known by the entire community. The fu-
neral will be held Tuesday.
That Wood county's fair record in
dealing with crime was not stained in the
handling of the Zeltner brothers can be
attributed to the cool head and efficient
management of Sheriff e. L. Kingsbury.
10 have attempted the capture of the
TWO men by any other tactics than those
employed by Sheriff Kingsbury would.
without doubt, have resulted in sew
eral more killings and perhaps the final
elimination would have been a lynch
Ing of the two criminals
Ihe 1udicious act of calling out the
state militia to assist in the discharge
OF his duty that of affording protection
to the accused and enforce compliance
with the law to both the men and the
mob, with the latter apparently unable
to see but one plan to be pursued to Sc
cure justice, that of getting possession
OF the murderers and stringing them up
TO the first tree at hand and were clam
orins to do SO, is worthy the highest
eommendation of the people,
This was the plan adopted by Sheriff
l<ingsbury as soon as he landed in Hoyts-
vile Saturday night. In fact he evil
IDENTIFY had come to this conclusion when
| he noticed the crowd of men who board
ed the train at North Baltimore, armed
with weapons of all sorts, from a 20 cal
bre revolver up to Krag- -Jorgensen and
Mauser army rifles.
He would have been helpless to have
| attempted to take the men by any 9TH
| er plan. This was evident when the con-
ference was held with the accused men,
who declared that unless afforded ample
| protection against mob violence, they
would not leave the house. They were
| armed to protect themselves against on
! ly an ordinary attack by civilians, and
without a doubt would have fought to
| the death.
The prisoners were arraigned before
Mayor Campbell on Wednesday and
bound over to common pleas court with
out bail, charged with murder IN the
first degree.