The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-31
LITTLE GIRL MURDERED.
A Negro Arrested for the Crime Had
to De Removed to Prevent
LynchinH.


aged 10, daughter of Stephen Long
who lives on farm near Austin, this
county, was found at spring neal
her home with her throat cut from
ear to ear and her head mashed. The
body had been ravished. A colored
man suspected of the crime was ar.
rested at Austin by Deputy Sheriff
James Devine. Blood stains were
found on his clothes. Lynching was
freely talked of, and to prevent it the
prisoner.was brought here and lodged
in Jail. He gave his name as Richard
Gardiner, and says that he lives at SO;
Court street, Cincinnati, and works
for Quigley & Co. digging ditch fol
the water works.
Chillicothe, o.. May 28.-Richard
Gardiner, accused of outraging and
numbering little Ethel Long in Ross
county, was removed from the Jail al
Athens, where he narrowly escaped
lynching, and taken to Columbus and
lodged in Jail there. The efforts OF
the Daleton miners to lynch the pris'
oner are accounted for by the fact
that Ethel Long was born in that
place and the family is well known
there.
a special grand jury has been called
here, and it is expected that Gardi.
ner will be Immediately indicted. A
change of venue is probable owing to
the state of public excitement.
The funeral of Ethel Long, Gardin-
er's victim, took place at Austin
Thursday morning, and was attended
by 1000 people.
Chillicothe. o., May 27.-Coroner
Smith at 10 o'clock Saturday morn
ing gave the following verdict:
From the evidence find the death
of Ethel Long resulted from cut
in the neck severing the jugular vein,
blow upon the head with some un-
known weapon. crushing the left
temporal bone, and from strangula-
tion by cord tightly drawn around
the neck, any one of which wounds
would have probably caused death.
From the evidence further find that
said wounds were inflicted by one,
Richard Gardiner"
Athens, O., May 2s.-Public tension
following the thrilling incidents when
an attempt was made to lynch Rich
ard Gardiner has not been allowed to
subside. Sheriff Porter Immediately
upon his return from Columbus,
whittier he had taken the prisoner,
began to secure prosecuting evidence
against the leaders of the mob. Later
he appeared before Mayor Rose, a
justice of the peace, and swore out
two attidavits and secured warrants
for the arrest of eight men. They
are Joseph Russell, Joseph Lyons, DR..
S. +. &. Pedigo, A. j. Douglas, Hugh
Rasmussen, Jack Fierce, George
Turner and Lon Lowry.
One of the affidavits charges the
men with unlawfully and riotously
assembling, with intent to break open
the sheriff's dwelling and the Jail, and
to take therefrom Richard Gardiner,
a prisoner in the custody of the sher-
iff, for the purpose of unlawfully and
violently assaulting and killing him.
The second affidavit charges them
with unlawfully, maliciously and for
chilly attempting to break and enter,
purposely, and with deliberate and
premeditated malice, to kill and mur-
der Klcnard Gardiner.
The men mentioned include some
of the most prominent and respecta-
BILE men in the western part of the
county. Sheriff Porter is determined
and declares that he proposes to pros
ecute them to the full extent of the
law. The grand jury has just finished
its work and it will be several months
before another will be drawn. Other
arrests may follow, and there is much
anxiety felt.