The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-03
WAS HANGED
THREE TINES
Joseph Spivey Has Entirely
Unique Experience.
IN HANDS OF ANGRY MOB
First Time He Used Hands to Prevent
Strargulation, Second He Was Let
Down to Write to His Wife, and
Third the Rope Was Cut.
IN HANDS OF ANGRY MOB
(By Associated Press.)


OXFORD, O., October r. s'ivo mon
were seriously injured and one narrowly
escaped lynching several times as tho re.
suit of last evenings riot at this place.
Those injured are:
John Woodruff, marshall OF oxford. be.
lieved to be fatally shot.
Jacob Manerod, deputy marshul, scri.
ously shot in the back and in the
shoulder.
Ernest Jotten, n county school teacher
of Monroe, O., believed to be fatally
shot In the abdomen.
Louis Spivey, Of Wagersville, Ky, Sc
riously shot in the back and breast.
Joseps spivey of same place. skull
fractured by stone.
The Splvey brothers came here to at.
tend the annual street fair and farmers
exposition. and began carouslng in n sa-
loon. They pulled their revolvers on the
bartender, who elected them, and Then
they proceeded to raise more trouble In
other saloons. When Marshal Woodruff
undertook to arrest thme he was mnrtally
shot. "A fuslladc OF bullets in the crowd
cd streets followed the shouting OF the
marshal. Deputy Marshal Manerode was
shot twice when he took the place Of
his chief.
During this fusade in the street L .e:sst
Jotten. while returning from his school
abdomen by stray bullet. and he is
now In critical condition.
Hanged Three Times.
After the shooting the men ran in diff
ferent directions, with crowds after each
stones thrown by those pursuing them.
Louis Spvey was shot by a citizen.
The men were finally lodged In jail. The
crowds that had been pursuing the men
IN different directions finally conoSl-
trated about the Jail and battered down
the door and took Joseph Spivey out to
lynch him. There possibly never was
such an experience OF any one In the
hands OF a mob as his He was hauled
from place to place with rope about
his neck and swung up three different
times, and yet escaped With his ne
In their haste the mob did not pinion
his arms or his legs, and he managed TO
use them so as to prevent strangulation
the first time he was hung up. The sec
ond time he was let down that he might
write a farewell letter to his wire AND
children. and third time some party cut
the rope. Before the mob succeeded IN
hanging him until dead the officers sue
ceeded in grabbing MIN ana rusl M. .,,a,
Off to the city prison. where the mop
was held Mt bay for some time, and finally
order enough was restored for speeches.
| to be made by ex.Mayor3 Flanagan, rev.
| DR.. THOMAS J. Potter and the protheF
| Of Marshal Woodruff.
While the speeches were being denver
ed the officers spirited the Sptyey brothere
into the cellar of the jail and thence OUT
through a coal shute. and made gooo
their escape with them to the Butler
| county Jail at Hamilton. O., distance
of fifteen miles. The mob then nndins
that it had been beaten dispersed.
This village, with it's three large lnst!'
tons of learning, is noted for Its culture
and order, but It was the scene over
years ago of the lynching of Henry Cor
| bin. a negro, for the murder OF Mrs.
| Homer, and striking feature OF the
attempted lynching last night was inc
part taken by the negroes. who protest.
cd every time the rope was slackeneo
and spivey was let down. Some OF inc
negroes raised quite disturbance wh'le
proclaiming that II the man had been
negro he would surely have been lynched
In the first place, without any one giving
| heed to his appeals.
The town Is quiet to-day and no fur-
Their trouble what ever is apprehend'e,d'
owing to the critical condition or the
sptyey brothers, no steps have been taken
| for their preliminary trial.