The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-02-28

circle of spectators, undeterred n
apparently unmoved by the horror of
the spectacle. At about $3.50 o'clock
the barricade was removed from the
west end of the bridge and the crowd
streamed across and surrounded the
fire. They watched and waited and
came and went while the flames did
their work. and when the last fragment
of the body was consumed the crowd
still fingered, still augmented by new
arrivals. satisfied to gaze upon the
ashes of the tragedy.
Ward was % years old and leaves a
widow and two children. He came here
FIVE years ago from Circleville, o. The
statement that he was one time in an
insane asylum is denied by his wife.
He served a Jail sentence in 1889 for
larceny
The leaders Of the mob are unknown,
and as public sentiment upholds the
lynching no prosecutions are expected.
The Negroes Crime.
The crime for which the negro suf-
fered the awful penalty was the rob
berry, murder and assault of Ida
Finkelstein, aged 81, a teacher in a
school near this city. 1t occurred late
Monday afternoon as she was coming
from her school on a road through the
woods. She was taken to the hospital,
where she died at 1880 o'clock Monday
night.
BY writing when her throat was
bleeding too much to talk, and by talk
ing when she could, Miss Finkelstein
told the story of her terrible expert
ence. She saw the negro off TO one side
of the road, and he called to her to
stop, but she hurried on, and when he
called the second time she ran. Then
he fired one charge from his shotgun,
and she says some of the shot struck
her in the back of her head, but they
made no serious wounds. At that she
stopped and he came up to her, de-
manding her money. She handed him a
purse containing three dollars and
started to run, but he caught her. She
struggled to free herself, but he threw
her down. Still she tried to get free,
and he became enraged and cut her
throat. 1t is a long cash, but need not
have been fatal if she had received
prompt treatment. After the negro
left her she walked half a mile to a
house. and fell fainting at the door. 1t
was more than an hour afterward be-
fore a doctor arrived. 1t was three
hours after the outrage before the po-
Iioa wara mt on the oaSa
Relatives Live in Chicago.
Miss Finkelstein has no relatives in
Terre Haute, but she has many friends
among the Jewish residents of the
city, who know of her heroic struggles
to support a widowed mother with six
younger children. Seven years ago her
father, a pack peddler, was murdered
in a saloon at Hymera, a mining town.
After that time she was graduated
from the high school with high honors.
and then spent two years in the state
normal school. She has been teaching
for three years, two years at the little
country schoolhouse from which she
was coming Tuesday afternoon. Her
mother and brothers and sisters moved
to Chicago Some time ago. and the
daughter sent to them nearly all her
salary as a teacher.
May BE Another Lynching.
indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 81. = The
iypehing and burning of the negro at
Terre Haute, coming. as il does. so soon
after the brutal assault on Dorothy
Barter, a respectable white girl, on the
streets of ~Irvington, Thursday after
noon, has famed public feeling TO a
fever heat. Following this, too, came
the nouncemen TUESDAY afternoon
of the arrest at Newcastle of a negro
answering the description of the as
sailant of Miss Barter. On receipt of
this news many quiet meetings were
held throughout the city. and plans
to lynch the negro if identified have
been made. The police are on the
watch. and Superintendent Quigley
will have the entire city force out to
guard the negro If identified and
brought here. The negro at Newcastle
admitted that he was at Irvington the
day after the assault on Miss Darter.
and says he is on his way east from
Oklahoma. Twenty negroes have been
arrested as suspects and taken before
Miss Darter, but none has been identi-
fed by her. A photograph of the New
castle negro is on its way here. 1t
will be shown Miss Darter and if she
is in doubt as to the identity the ne
gro will be brought here at once.
Trouble is then feared by the authori-
ties.
Day of Doom Fixed.