The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-02
THRICE HUNG
Man ESCAPES
Remarkable Experience Of Ken-
lucky Desperate in Hands
Of an Ohio Mob.
Three Times He Was strug Up and
Thrice He Escaped
Death.
Man Had Shot and Fatally Wounded
Marshall Who Sought to
Arrest Him.

Oxford, Ohio. Oct. 2.-Five men were
seriously injured and one narrowly es-
capped lynching as the result of last even
ing's riot at this place.
Those injured are:
John Woodruff marshal OF Oxford, be-
neved to be fatally shot
Jacob Manrod, deputy marshal seri-
ously shot In the back and in the shoulder.
Ernest Jotten, country school teacher
of Monroe, Ohio, believed to be fatally
shot In the abdomen.
/ Louis Spivey Of Wagonville, KY, seri-
ously shot in the back and breast
Joseph Spivey, skull fractured by stone,
also of Wagonville, KY.
ward Richardson of Billingsville, Ind, Just
across the state line from Oxford The
three came here to attend the annual state
fair and farmers exposition, and began
carousing In saloon. They pulled their
revolvers on the bar tender who elected
them and then they proceeded to raise
more trouble in other saloons.
A FusIIade Of Bullets.
When Marshal Woodruff undertook to-
arrest them he was mortally shot. A fu-l
siade of bullets in the crowded streets
followed the shooting of the marshal.
deputy Marshal Manrod was shot twice
when he took the place Of his chief.
During this fusilade in the street Ern-
est Jotten while returning from his school
abdomen by a stray bullet and is now in
a critical condition After the shooting
| the three 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 wasi
shot In the stomach by citizen. The
three men were finally lodged in Jail after
running a mile from the scene of the
shooting. Later Edward Richardson was
released after it was shown that he had
nothing to do with the shooting and was
only accompanying the Spivey brothers
The crowds that had been pursuing the
| three men finally concentrated about the
Jail, battered down the door and took Jo-
! seph Sp!vey out to lynch him. He was
hauled from place to place with a rope
about his neck and was swung up three.
different times. Yet he escaped with his.
life. 4 - $50
| Hung Three Times.
not pinion his arms OF his legs and he
managed to use them so as to prevent
Istrangulation the first time he was hung.
1 The second time, hecWas let down SO that
/ he might write a farewell letter to his
wife and children and the third time,
someone cut the rope. Before the mob
could make a fourth attempt officers
grabbed Spivey and rushed him off to the
/ city prison. Here the mob was held at
bay for some time, and finally the Spivey
brothers were taken into the cellar or the
Jail and thence out thru a coal chute.
the officers landing them in the Butler
county jail at Hamilton, Ohio, fifteen
miles away almost before the mob had
missed them The crowd, finding that id
had been beaten, dispersed and the vii
lage was quiet during the latter part of
the night. " z: g. 50
This village was the scene, over a year
ago, of the lynching Of Henry Corbin; 81
negro, for the murder of Mrs. Morner and
a striking feature Of the attempted lynch
ing last night was the part taken by ne-
groes.
John Woodruff, the marshall, one Of tho
men shot last night, is resting easily to-
! day, but the physicians are still appre-
hens1ve. Ernest Jotten, the school teach
er, is believed to be dying. Jacob Man-
rod. deputy town marshal, is worse to-
day. His recovery is doubtful. Word
comes from Hamilton that Louis Spivey
cannot recover, but that his brother jos
seph may.