Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-02
Swung Up Three Times and
 Then Escaped.
ROW STARTED IN A SALOON

a Street Fair-Five Persons Were
 Seriously Injured Before the Fun
 Ceased.
 Oxford, O., Oct 2.-Five men were seriously injured and one narrowly es- caped lynching several times as the re- suit of last evenings riot at this place.
 Those injured are:
 John Woodruff, marshal of Oxford, believed to be fatally shot.
 Jacob Manrod, deputy marshal, shot in the back and in the shoulder; condi- ton serious
 Ernest Jottin, a country school teacher of Monroe, O., believed to De fatally shot in the abdomen.
 Louis Spivey of Wagonville, Ky, shot in the back and breast; serious
 Joseph Spivey, skull fractured by stone, also of Wagonville, Ky.
 The Spivey brothers were visiting Edward Richardson of Billingsvllle, Ind, just across the state line from OK ford. The three came here to attend the annual street fair and farmers exposition. The town was filled with strangers when these three men began carousing in saloon. They pulled 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 mortally shot. A fusilade of bullets in the crowded streets fol- lowed the shooting of the marshal. Deputy Marshal. Manrod was shot twice when he took the place of his chief During this fJ1silade in the xwyMf 3y1e er from his school to his boarding house, was struck in the abdomen by stray bullet and he is in 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 was shot Sy citizen. The three men were finally lodged in jail. Edward Richardson was dismissed after it was shown that he had nothing to do with the shooting and was only accompany tng the Spivey brothers.
 Crowds finally concentrated about the Jail and battered down the door and took Joseph Spivey out to lynch him. He was hauled from place to place with a rope about his neck and was swung up three different times and yet escaped with his life. Tn their haste the mob did not pinion his arms or his legs and he managed to use them so as to, prevent strangula- tion the first time he was hung. At another time he was let down so that he might write farewell letter to his wife and children and at another time some one cut the rope. Before the mob finally succeeded in hanging him until he was dead the officers rescued him end rushed him off to the city prison, where the mob was held at bay for some time and finally order enough was secured for speeches to be made by ex-Mayor Flanagan, Rev Dr Thomas J. Potter and the brother of Marshal Woodruff While the speech es were being delivered the officers spirited the Spivey brothers into 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, O., distance of fifteen miles. The mob then finding that 1t had been beaten dispersed and the viH lge was quiet during the latter part oi the night.
 This village with its three large in- Stitutiols of learning is noted for its NuAtNA1 S-huu DLuSEp OuL IL WAS Iue scene over a year ago of the Iynching of Kerry Corbin, a negro, for the murder of Mrs Horner, and 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 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 pro- claiming that if the man had been negro he would surely have been lynched in the first place without any one giving heed to his appeals. The mob was without leader at any time, but still it probably would not have been foiled but for the appeals of Woodruff's brother to let the law take xts course.