The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-03
KENTUCKlANS
VISIT IN OHIO
Mortal Coil Of Several Psopl e
UnwOund in Consequence.
ANGRY CITIZENS COT A ROPE
ONE MAN STRUNG UP. BUT RES
CUED BY OFFICERS.

oxford. Ohio. oct. 2.-Five men were
seriously injured and one narrowly es-
capped lynchiug several times as the
result Of last evenings riot at this
place.
Those injured are:
John WOOdrun, marshal of oxford,
believed to be fatally shot
Jacob Manrod, deputy marshal Sc
riously shot in the back and in the
shoulder.
Ernest Jotten. a country school
teacher Of Monroe. Ohio. believed to be
fatally shot in the abdomen.
Louis Spivey Of Wagersville. Ky. Sc
riousy shot in the back and breast.
Joseph SpiYey, skull fractured by
stone, also Of Wagersville.
The Spivey 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 farm ers' expo
sition
The Trouble Begins.
The town was filled with strangers
when these three men began ccrousing
ir a saloon. They pulled their revolvers
on the bartender who elected them ana
they proceeded to raise more trouble
in other saloons. When Marshal
Woodruff undertook to arrest them he
was mOrtally shot A fusillade of shots
in the crowd followed. Deputy Mar
shall Manrod was shot twice when he
took the place of his chief During
this fusillade in the street Ernest JOt-
ten. while returning from his school to
his boarding house. was struck in the
abdomen by a stray bullet and he Is
row IA a critical condition. After the
shooting the three men ran in different
directions with crowds after each and
each was hit in the head with stones
thrown by those pursuing them. Louis
Spivey was shot by citizen. The eX-
element was intense when the three
men were finally lodged I'm Jail after
running a mile from the scene Of the
shooting.
Edward Richardson was dismissed
after it was shown that he had nothing
10 do with the shooting and was only
accompanying the Spivey brothers.
Luck Was With Him.
The crowds that had been pursuing
the three men i'm different directions
finally concentrated about the jail and
battered down the doors and took
Joseph Spivev out to lynch him. There
possibly was never such an experience
OF any one in the hands Of mob
as this He was hauled from place 20
place with rope about his neck and
swung up three different times and set
escaped with his life. I'm their haste
the mob did not pinion his arms or his
legs and he managed 70 use them so
as TO prevent strangulation the hrst
time he was hung. AT another time
he was let down so that he might write
q farewell letter to his wife and chill
dren and at another time some one cut
the rope Before the mob finally sue
ceeded in hanging him until dead the
officers grabbed him and rushed him
off TO the city prison. where the mob
was held at bay for some time and
finally order secured enough for
speeches to be made by Mayor Elan
nigan. Rev. Thomas !. Potter and the
brother Of Marshal Woodruff While
the speeches were being delivered. thu
officers spirited the Spivey brothers in
to the cellar Of the jail and thence out
through a coal chute and made good
their escape with them to the Butler
county Jail at Hamilton. Ohio. dis
lance of fifteen miles The mob then
finding that il had been beaten. dis
persed and the village was quiet dur
ing the latter part of the night.
This village with its three large in
stitutions Of learning is noted for its
culture and order. but it was the scene
over year ago Of the lynching 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 Joseph Spivey was let
down 10 say his prayers. write 20 his
wife and children or for any other Dur-
pose of mercy. Some of the negroes
raised quite a disturbance while pro-
claiming that if the man had been a
negro he would surely have been
lynched i'm the first place without any
one giving heed 20 his appeals. The
mob was without a leader at any
time but still it would not have been
fOlled but for the appeals of Wood
rufus brothers TO let the law take it's
course.
Two OF the men shot last night are
in critical condition today and the
third Is not yet out of danger. John
Woodruff. the marshal of Oxford is
resting easy. but the physicians are
still apprehensive OF his case Ernest
Jotten, the school teacher. is uncon-
scicus and no hope for him whatever
is expressed by the physicians. Jacob
Manrod deputy town marshal is worse
and his recovery is doubtful
The town is quiet today and no
further trouble whatever Is appre-
hended. Investiga ton today indicates
that Joseph Spivey fred the shots that
relied woodruff and Manrod.