The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-03
HANGED THREE TIMES
YET KENTUCKY DESPERATE Is
STILL ALIVE.
CAPTURED BY OHIO MOB
AFTER HE AND HIS BROTHER HAD
SHOT THREE MEN.

Mob Battered Down Jail Door and
Took Prisoner TO n Tree-In Their
Haste Neglected to Tie Mans
Hands and He Chung to Rope ana
Prevented Observation-Disclosures
Time Was Let Down to Write Let
ter to Wife and Third Time OH
GERS Cut Him Down-NOw Lies in
Jail with Broken Skull.
oxford, o.. Oct. 2.-Five men were
seriously injured and one narrowly es-
capped lynching several times. as the
result of last evenings riot at this
place.
Those injured are: John Woodruff.
marshal of oxford, believed to be ia
tally shot.
Jacob Manerod, deputy marshal, Sc
riously shot in the back and in the
shoulder.
Ernest Jotten, a country school
teacher of Monroe, O.. believed to be
fatally shot in the abdomen.
Louis Spivey of Wagersville, Ky,
seriously shot in the back and breast.
bOoCph OpANSys lShulA Ny
stone, also of Wagersville, Ky.
The Spivey brothers came here to
attend the annual street fair and farm
ers' exposition, and began 'carousing
in d saloon. They pulled their re-
volvers on the bartender, who elected
them and then they proceeded to raise
more trouble in other saloons. When
Marshal Woodruff undertook to arrest
them, he was MORALLY shot.
A fusilade of bullets in the crowded
streets followed the shooting of the
marshal, Deputy Marshal Manerod was
shot twice when he took the place of
his chief.
During this fusilade in the street
Ernest Jotten, while returning from his
school to his boarding house, was
struck III the abdomen by a stray bull
let and he is now in critical condi-
ton.
After the shooting the men ran in
different directions with crowds after
each one, and each was hit in the head
with stones thrown by those pursuing
them. Louis Spivey was shot by a
citizen. The men were finally lodged
in Jail.
Hanged Three Times.
The crowds that had been pursuing
the three men in different directions
hnaHy concentrated about the Jail and
battered down the door and took Spivey
out to lynch him. There possibly new
er was such an experience of any one
IN the hands of mob as his. He was
hauled from place to place with a rope
ABOUT his neck and swung up three
different times and yet ESCAPED with
MS life. In their haste the mob did
not pinion his arms or his legs and
ne managed to use them so as to pre-
vent strangulation the first time he
was hung.
At another time he was let down SO
that he might write a farewell letter
TO his wife and children, and at an
other time some one cut the rope Be-
Iore the men finally succeeded in hang
ing him until dead, the officers grab
bed him and rushed him off to the CITY
prison, where the mob was held at
bay for some time and finally order
enough was restored for speeches to be
made by ex-Mayor Flanagan, Rev. DR..
Thomas j. Potter and the brother of
Marshal Woodruff.
While the speeches were being deliv
cred the officers spirited the Spivey
brothers into the cellar of the Jail and
thence out through coal chute, and
made good their escape with them to
u,
distance of fifteen miles The mob
then finding that it had been beaten,
dispersed.
This village. with it's three large in
stitutions of learning, is noted for it's
culture and order, but it was the scene
over a year ago of the lynchinx of
Henry Corbin, a negro for the murder
of Mrs. Horner. and a striking feature
of the attempted lynching last night
was the part taken by the negroes, who
protested every time the rope was
slackened and Spivey was let down.
Some of the negroes raised quite dis
turbance while proclaiming that if the
man had been negro he would surely
have been lynched in the first place,
without any one giving heed to his ap-
peals.
The town is quiet tonight, and no
further trouble whatever is apprehend-
ed. Owing to the critical condition of
the Spivey brothers, no steps have. been
taken for their preliminary trial.