The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-28

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George W. King, aged Is Year,,
n highly respected citizen Of Indiana,
..i "a ME fsms Mar r.s,avst,s last
U' ~. 80.
"eeH' nas's isee ior He tVtF'
years In easy circumstances as the IN
direct result Of q night OF torture and
consequent confinement in jail. through
which he passed as a victim of circum-
staptial evidence, says special to the
New York Press.
Late in the '5e's Mr.. King was the
propsietorfof a hotel in Oxford, TWEEN
ty-slS miles from Lafayette. In 1853,
a stranger arrived at the hotel and
gave his name as Or. Rowe. he told
King that he had no money and asked
to be trusted for his board until he
could get practice in the place, prom
Using to pay him as promptly as pos
stble. King consented to the arrange
ment and Rowe soon became faYortte
with the people on account of his
companionable disposition. and superior
intelligence. The doctor, however, fell
deeper and deeper in debt He had
been at the hotel for nearly year
when King reminded him one morning
that he had not paid anything on his
board bill for three months. The con-
versation, It afterward appeared, was
overheard by some one IN the hotel,
though nothing was thought of 1t at
the time.
Doctor Disappeared.
,voo,, oS,ar. .bs conversation Rowe
,,,as ooS,ed o,,t ,ate a. night to see a
ost,.nt and fa,ied 10 return. Days
ps.s ,' sl, az, ,sord srom him and
So' .,,..nnasrance soon was connected
,.. ~, -. .Ior ,baf had passed
49, VIZ s-' ~ ~. oad the laId,ord about
-, 800 .lit thoord One night three
ens mn ynpH ,a... DU " nor,v ~ dtSS,Ised men
MOUTHS MOUTHS 'a 49,. : IT,, and oysrnowerinp
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9s recornIzed the voices Of several
gf his captors. and especially Of the
lender. who told him that he was sus-
peeted of numbering Rowe and de-
manded that he confess. King stoutly
maintained his innocence. and the
leader Of theemob ordered his compan.
Ions ito string him up." A rope was
placed around his neck. a dozen men
nulled down a stout limb. over which
the other end Of the rope was thrown,
and when the limb was released 1t car
rIed King Oh his feet and left him
hanging BY the neck. He was nearly
unconscious when let down and again
ordered 10 confess.
Ae.er much delay he was restored
maicIentiv to understand what was
said to him and he again refused. de-
clar,,p his innocence and SAYING he did
not l;now what had become Of Rowe. A
second time he was strung up, and a
SECOND time let down, but life was
ns,rIv extinct and he was much longer
in beInp restored than before.
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ed to take King to taIl IN Lafayette
and then arrest Rogers and Haggard.
Before the jail was reached day had
dawned, and King recognized his cap
tors as members of the Horse Thief
Detective Company, of Benton. Warren
and Tippecanoe counties. nearly all of
whom were known to him. Confident
Of his guilt, the men made no attempt
to conceal their identity. So great was
the excitement and SO intense the feel
ing against King that he waived ex-
animation and went to jail, hoping
that ann,atbIno yynuid turn nm IN %.