Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-18

] WIZ ANlutNNNtItN hteluh NllA'A iAN NAN
or the other at the fight There We're
two men killed and four or five wound
ed, and another death the next day
was ascrbed to shock, the deceased be-
ing close to Mr. Hughes when he fell
Now, as i'm all cases Of the kind, there
We're hundreds of people ready to
swear that they had the most hair
breadth escapes from death; there
were other hundreds who detailed the
events of the fight to the minutest par
tiCular as If they were In the coming
tower Of a battleship and saw in Safe
ty, like our friend Sampson, the pano-
rama of a battle fought by SChley. In
the hundreds on the sidewalk there
was no man or woman who calmly OBJ
served the fight, as such a feat is as
unnatural as it is absurd Every man
and woman sought safety the best they
could. 10 was not their fight and bull
let's were flying thick enough to make
oven old soldiers dodge. Yet the State,
on my trial, produced over one hun
dred witnesses who saw and described
every detail of the battle from the
point of view Of the State, and the de-
fense was not without friends, too, who
witnessed and described the battle ac-
curately as they saw It, In fact, we
gave the State a Roland for every Oil
yer it produced and the auditors who
sat out the three months trial pre-
dicted either an acQuittal or a dis.
agreement of the jury. such was the
contradictory nature Of the evidence
and its equally robust character for
the State and the defence But we
are anticipating. The arrest Of myself
and brother immeditely followed the
combat, and we were held, Of course,
without bail. The most incendiary ar
ticles appeared IN the Columbus news
papers notably the railroad organ OF
j. ID. Ellison, of the Pennsylvania
r. r., known as the State Journal.
These articles were intended and de-
signed to raise a mob to lynch my
brother and myself A disreputable
family Of millionaires named Mithon,
whose immortality we had exposed,
hired an eX-cOnWct named j. B. x.
Connolly, a blackmailer and illiterate
scoundrel running a Sunday newspa-
per. to raise a mob. This fellow Con-
molly could not write a sentence I'm
the English language, but had been put
I'm possession Of a rival Sunday news
paper, called the Sunday News, by the
Consolidated Street Railway, to Offset
the attacks of my paper, which had
exposed the crookedness and perjury
of the company and won a strike for
fits men. Connolly was an eXthief
from Cleveland, or rather Painesville,
Ohio. He had been several times ar
rested for criminal offenses, and
Ralph Paige, the Painesville bank
wrecker. had saved him a number Of
times. He was finally convicted and
did a term for false pretenses in the
Cl Gland Jail. I published his full
record in my paper and made him
hunt his hole. This fellow was prop.
err tool TO hire to rouse the criminals
Of the city, and Millionaire Mithoff
spent money freely to do so. In the
station-house my brother and myself
were kept fully posted on what was
going on by the chief Of police. He
had prepared to give the mob a vel
come with bloody hands to hospitable
graves, but the mob never materialized
despite the efforts Of the Journal,
Dispatch and a blackmailing afternoon
sheet conducted by a notorious black
mailer from Dayton, Ohio. A special
Grand Jury was Immediately impanel-
el and with a speed that would glad
den the heart Of New Jersey justice
my brother and myself were indicted
on two counts for murder in the first
degree-the one for the killing = 0s-
borne and the other for the lame fa'.
death of old man Hughes. w
denied bail Notwithstanding q
friends came for,ra-.d e'isa 0naur
I'm the sum of ONE MILLION Doll
(To be cOntinued.)