Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-02
FIVE MEN ARE BADLY INJURED.
Mob Batters in Jail, Takes One Culprit
Out and Hangs Him to a
Tree.
SHERIFF FINALLY SAVES HIM
Took Him from Their Hands, Rushed
Him Through Jail Coal Chute aud
Spirited Him Away.

Oxford, Ohio, oct, 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 he fatally shot.
Jacob Manrod. deputy marshal seri-
ously shot in the back and In the
shoulder.
Ernest Jotten. country school
teacher Of Fonroc Onto, believed to be
fatally shot in the abdomen.
Louis Spyey of Wagersyille, Estell
county. KY seriously shot IN the back
and breast
Joseph. spivey. Skull fractured by
stone. also of Wagersvile Estell coun-
ty, KY,
The spiyey brothers were visiting
Edward Richardson OF Billingsville,
Ind, just across the state line from
oxford. The three came to attend the
annual street fair and farmers exposi-
tion,
CAROUsING BEGINS,
The town was filed with strangers
when these three men began carousing
I'm a saloon They pulled their revolv-
ers on the bartender who elected them
and they proceeded to raise more trou-
BILE in other saloons. When Marshal
Woodruff undertook to arrest them he
was mortally shot 4 fusiade Of
shots In the crowd followed Deputy
Marshal Manrod was shot twice when
he took the place of his chief, During
this fusilade In the street Ernest Jot-
ten, while returning from his school
to his boarding house was struck I'm
the abdomen by stray bullet and he
is now I'm a critical condition, After
the shooting the three men ran In dif-
ferent directions with crowds after each
and each was hit in the head by stones
thrown By those pursuing them, Louis
Spivey was shot by a citizen. The
excitement was intense when the three
men were finally lodged In Jail after
running a mile from the scene OF the
shooting,
Edward Richardson was dismissed
after II was shown that he had nothing
to do with the shooting aud was only
accompanying the Spivey brothers.
PURSUING THE MEN
The crowds that had been pursuing
the three men In different directions
IldllN concentrated about lit jill anu
battered down the doors and took
Joseph Spiyey out to lynch him There
possibly never was such an experience
of any one In the hands of mob as
his. He was hauled from place 10 place
with rope about his neck and swung
up three different times and yet es-
capped with his life In their haste the
mob did not piniou his arms or his
legs and he managed TO use them so as
to prevent strangulation the first time
he was hung At another time he was
let down so that he might write fare
we'll letter to his wife and children and
at another time some one cut the rope.
Before the mob finally succeeded In
hanging him until dead the officers
grabbed him and rushed him of to the
city prison, where the mob was held at
bay for some time ana finally order
was secured enough for speeches TO be
made by Mayor Flanagan, Rev Thorn
as J. Potter and the brother of MaraNl
Woodruff
SPIRITED AWAY.
While the speeches were being de-
liyered 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
the Butler county jail at Hamilton, o.,
a distance of - miles, The mob then
finding that It had been beaten dispers-
ed and the village was quiet during the
latter part Of the night.
A FORMER LYNCHING,
This village with It's three large instl-
tutions Of learning Is noted FOR it's
culture and order. but II was the scene
over year ago Of the lynching Of Hen
~ Corbln, a negro, for the murder of
Mrs, Horner, and a striking feature OF
the attempted lynchlng last night was
the part taken By the negroes who pro-
tested every time the rope was slack
ened and Joseph splvoy was let down
to say his prayers, write To his wife and
children or for any other purpose of
mercy. Some Of the negroes raised
quite a disturbance while pToclniming
that II the man had besn n negro n
would surely have been lynchcd In the
first place without anyone giving heed
TO his appeals the mob was without Il
leader at any time, but stil It would
not have been folled but for the appeals
Of Woodruns brothers TO let the law
take its course.
IN Shooting sCRAPEs BEFORE.
Hamilton, o.. oct. 2.--The physicians
attending the Spivey brothers, two OF
the five men injured In the riot at OK
ford last evening repor; both today IN
a serious condition. Louis who was
shot by citizens who were assisting the
officers, 10 IN such u serious condition
that physicians cannot probe any fur
Their for the bullet. Joeph Spivoy, who
may recover, presents q horrible cP-
pearancc. Both ears are torn and his
neck is raw and swollen from the Of
fects OF the rope while his face Is also
disngurcd. His most serious injury go
n scalp wound which was caused by be-
Ing hit by a stone.
The Spivcy brothers Who are IA jan
here confessed today that they had
been ia shooting scrapcs before having
served torms IN the rtnltentiary a.
Frankfort ior shooting 20 XIII They
nscribei the whole trouble o. oxford to
their drinking, Joseph Splvey, when
asked today TO- hiy nearest Of kin. re-
PEELED that Deputy Sho'if Prnunou was
his best friend Braunon Is the officer
who broke through the crowd ana cut
the rope the last t,mc Gpiycy was
strung up last night.
Deputy Brannon Is highly commend
ed FOR his bravery and Judgment In pre-.
venting lynching.