Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-31
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DANVlLLE NOW QUIET.
Mob Spirit Dies Down-Much Praise
Off the Sheriff.

Ian ILO1L, ILL.,, july oV-lIepti tuie ioi
Camp Lincoln at 8 o'clock yesterday of
Companies a and b of the Seventh Regi-
ment marked the return of normal con-
ditions to Danville. Companies III and l;
CLASSIFY, remained. These comprise 100
men, who continue a strict guard of the
county Jail. Threats and rumors are
dying ont, and Danville is the quiet
country town of week ago.
Best methods of prosecuting the Leaders
of the mob arc under consideration by the
authorities. Sheriff Whitlock has list of
thirty names of participants in the attack
on the county jail. This includes ali those
who were wounded and whose names have
been published. Sentiment Of the COM
munity is crystallizing strongly in favor
of Whitlock's actions, and the Vermilion
County Bar Association passed reso-
lutions Monday afternoon unfolding his
course. Whitlock is absolutely de-
termined to bring the guilty ones to
Justice.
THE line of action to be taken will
probably be to arrest the men and bring
them before a justice of the peace, when
they will 'e bound over for the regular
this afternoon. II see no necessity for a
special grand iiry. To my present list
of thirty l am going to be able to add
twenty more names.
Many on the list are minors and por-.
identify these persons, so will my
deputies. and some leading citizens have
pI OIlllS6u " w LIE SdIIle Will Iol DS-
gin the prosecution of these men this
week, as l desire to collect all available
evidence. l will take an equal number
of men before each of the five justices
of the peace. They cannot refuse to act,
as they are bound to do So. The charge
against the men I arrest will be riot.
Il have nothii to do with prosecuting,
the men III the mob which attacked the
ATTACKED the. county. ja' are the ones on
nv list Riot is a felony, and the men
will TO ho. I'D frorl $500 upward. When
terminate me the .nitentiary''
Sheriff W.iltlock has received many tele-
grams Of congratulations from outside
places rraising him for his heroic stand
for law and order. Many, of the leading
citizens also congratulated him. Il Will
enforce the law as long as l hold office"
said the sheriff. II was elected to this
office to carry out the duties entailed. and
l don't care whether am injured
politically or not. l would rather have
the approval of laW-abiding men than all
the votes of the rabbe."
At the meeting of the Bar Association.
presided over by Supreme Court Judge j..
adopted commencing Sheriff Whtlock.
The resolutions were to the following
effect:
Resolved That this association de-
| nounces and condemns in unmeasured and
unqualified terms the lawless acts of the
mob assembled in this city on Saturday
the fearless and heroic conduct of Sheriff
H. H. Whtlock, in defending the county
| Jail and the prisoners in his custody. and
pledge him the support of this association
| in any emergency which may hereafter
arise. We will, to the utmost of our re-
sources, aid in the prosecution, convict
| ion and punishment Of whoever attempts
to carry into execution the dastardly
| threat to do him violence.
While we deplore the unjustifiable
killing of Henry Gatterman, we hold the
criminal law of the State of Illinois COM
plete in it's provisions for the proper
punishment of all such crimes. and from
| The past administration of that law i'll
Vermilion County have the assurance
| that the crimes would have been speedily
and properly punished.
| pa rticipants in the lynching and riot.
Thirty prominent members of the bar
were present. Former States Attorney
| the resolutions, described Sheriff Whit
lock as having more nerve to the square
| inch than any man l know.
| Mayfield's charred remains were buried
| in potter's field today. No minister was
present. and no services OF any KIND held.
| The inquest into the death of Gatterman
will be held Wednesday.
| Criticism of the police for not making
| a more determined stand to protect May
field is general. IF the police had met
the mob as Whitlock did there would have
been no lynching,' is an opinion often eX~
pressed.
The wounded at the hospital are all
getting on well. and it is not expected that
| there will be any deaths During the day
the mass of rubbish was removed from
the county Jail. and the steps cleared OF
battering ram. A heap OF stones; Dicks
and bottles showed the miscellaneous
missiles hurled by the assailants Re.
pairs are under way both at the city and