The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1900-04-06

ter were struck again and again. Their
clothes were torn into tatters. Mr..
Winter was faint and reeling. Only
his great terror made his clutch on
Philip like that of a drowning man.
At last the crowd had dragged the
two outside the gate into the street.
Here they paused awhile, and Philip
again spoke to the mob.
Men, made in Gods image. listen to
me! Do not take innocent life. If you
kill hir1. you kill me also, for l will
never leave his side alive, and 1 will
not permit such murder if 1 can pre-
vent it."
XIII them both-the bloody coward
and the priestr' yelled voice. ''They
both belong to the same church"
'Yes, hing 'em! Hang 'em BOTH" A
tempest of cries went up. Philip tow
cred up like a giant. In the light of
the street lamp he looked out over the
great sea of passionate, brutal faces,
crazed with drink and riot, and a great
wave of compassionate feeling swept
over him. Those nearest never forgot
that look. 1t was Christlike in it's
yearning love for lost children. His
lips moved in prayer.
And just then the outer circle of the
crowd seemed agitated. 1t had Surged
up nearer the light with the evident in
tention of hanging the mill owner on
one of the crosspieces of telegraph
pole near by. The rope had again been
thrown over his head. Philip stood
with one arm about Mr.. Winter and
with the other stretched out in en-
treaty, when he heard a pistol shot,
then another. The entire police de-
partment had been summoned and had
finally arrived. There was a skirmish-
ing rattle of shots. But the crowd be-
gan to scatter in the neighborhood of
the police force. Then those nearer
Philip began to run as best they could
away from the officers. Philip and the
mill owner were dragged along with
the rest in the growing confusion until,
watching his opportunity, Philip pull
ed Mr.. Winter behind one of the large
poles by which the lights of the street
were suspended.
Here, sheltered a little, but struck by
many blow, Philip managed to shield
with his own body the man who only
a little while before had come into his
own house and called him a liar and
threatened to withdraw his church sup
port because of the preaching of
Christ's principles.
When finally the officers reached the
| two men. Mr.. Winter was nearly dead
from the fright. Philip was badly
bruised, but not seriously, and he help
ed Mr.. Winter back to the house, while
a few of the police remained on guard
the rest of the night 1t was while re-
covering from the effects of the nights
attack that Philip little by little learn
ed of the facts that led up to the as
sault
There had been a growing feeling of
discomfort in all the mills, and it had
finally taken shape in the Ocean mill,
which was largely owned and control
| led by Mr. Winter. The discomfort
arose from a new scale of wages SUBJ
mitted by the company. 1t was not
satisfactory to the men, and the after
noon of that evening on which Philip
had gone down to the hall a commit
| tee of the mill men had waited on Mr..
| Winter and after a long conference
had gone away without getting any
satisfaction. They could not agree on
the proposition made by the company
| and by their own labor organization.
Later in the day one of the committee,
| under instructions, went to see Mr..
Winter alone and came away from
the interview very much excited and
angry. He spent the first part of the
| evening in saloon, where he related
a part of his interview with the mill
owner, and said that he had finally
kicked him out of the office. Still later
in the evening he told several of the
! men that lie was going to see Mr.. Win
(, ter again, knowing that on certain
evenings he was in the habit of stay
ing down at the mill Office until nearly
half past for special business. The
mills We're undergoing repairs, and
Mr.. Winter was away from home
more than usual
That was the last that any one saw
of the man until, about 10 O'clock
some one going home past the mill
office heard a man groaning at the foot
of Il new excavation at the end of the
building and climbing down discover
ed the man who had been to see NJ
Winter twice that afternoon. He hau
Il terrible cash in his head and lived
only few minutes after lie was dis
| covered. To the half dozen men who
stood over him IN the saloon, where he
had been carried, he had murmured
the name of MIR. Winter" and had
then expired.
A very little adds fuel to the brain OF
men already heated with rum and ha
tired. The rumor spread like lightning
that the wealthy mill owner had killed
one of the employees who had gone tt
see him peaceably and arrange matters
for the men. He had thrown him on
of the office into one of the new mil
excavations and left him there to die
like a dog in ditch. SO the story raj
all through the tenement district, an(
in an incredibly swift time the wors
elements in Milton were surging to
ward Mr.. Winters house with murde
in their hearts and the means of accom-
pliShing it in their hands.
Mr.. Winter had finished his work a
the office and gone home to sit down t,
a late lunch, as his custom was. whel