The Butte inter mountain., 1903-10-02
CROSS OHIO AND ATTEND FAIR AT
ONFORD-MUCH BLOOD
is SHED.
ONE MAN ALMOST LYNCHED
Sheriff Rescues Victim OF Mob Just as
He Is Being Drawn Up-Several
Are Dying Of Wounds.


brother John and several strangers, had
been shooting his revolver in the street
during fair, took him to an elm tree on
which Henry Corbn was ynchcd i'll 1892.
lie was strung up and let down 10 pray.
"A second time he was strung up and let
down and while he was pleading for time
to write to his wife, Deputy Sheriff Bran
nan and a few assistants rushed forward,
cut the ropes and dashed down the street
with the prisoner He was rushed to the
Jail and has been spirited out Of town.
Five persons were shot and dangerously
wounded last night in the fight between
officers and the men from Kentucky.
Two Shot.
Marshal John Woodruff and his deputy,
Jacob Manrod, cndcavored to arrest the
kentuckans and were shot, Marshal
Woodruff in the right breast and Deputy
Manrod in the left wrist.
A crowd started in pursuit OF the Spivy
brothers and overlook them. John Spivy
was shot in the head and is dying.
His brother was knocked unconscious
with a stone thrown by some one in the
crowd Of pursuers.
During the fight stranger, who refused
to give his name, was shot in the alb
domen and will die.
The marshal ant deputy will recover.
A complete list Of the casualties show
that five men were seriously injured and
one narrowly escaped lynching several
times as the result OF last evenings riot
at this place.
Those injured are:
John Woodruff, marshal OF Oxford, be-
lievcd to be fatally shot.
John Manrod, deputy marshal, seriously
Shot in the back and in the shoulder.
Ernest Jotten country school teacher
OF Monroe, o., believed to be fatally shot
in the abdomen.
Louis Spivey of Wagonvile, Ky, seri-
ously shot in the back and breast.
Joseph Spiyey, skull fractured by a
stone.
The Spivey brothers were visiting Ed
ward Richardson OF Billingvllc, Ind, just
across the state line from oxford. The
three came to attend the annual street fair
and farmers exposition.
Began Carouse.
The town was flied with strangers when
these three men began carousing in
saloon. They pulled their revovers OH the
bartenders and elected them and they pro-
ceedcd to raise more trouble in more
saloons.
Marshal Woodruff undertook to arrest
them he was mortally shot. A fusade OF
shots in the crowd followed.
Deputy Marshal Manrod was shot twice
when he took the place OF his chief. Dur
ing this fusade in the street Ernest Jot-
ten, while returning from his school 10 his
boarding house, was struck in the abdomen
by stray bullet and he is in critical con-
dition.
After the shooting the three men ran in
different directions with crowds after each
and each was hit in the head by stones
thrown by those pursuing them. Louis
Spivey was shot by citizen. The excite
ment was intense when the three men were
finally lodged in Jail, after running mile
from the scene OF the shooting
Not Guilty.
Edward Richardson was dismissed after
it was shown that he had nothing to do
with the shooting, and was only accom-
panying the Spivey brothers.
The crowds that had been pursuing the
three men in different directions finally
concentrated about the Jail and battered
down the doors and took Joseph Spivey 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 to place with
rope about his neck and swung up three
different times, and yet escaped with his
life In their haste the mob did not pnion
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 a farewell letter to his wife
and children and at another time some one
cut the rope. Before the mob finally sue
al -. .:I 4 4 Al.
GERS grabbed him and rushed him off to
the city prison, where the mob was held
at bay for some time and finally order was
secured enough for speeches to be made by
Mayor Flanagan, the Rev. Thomas J..
Potter and the brother of Marshal Wood
ruff
While the speeches were being delivered
the officers spirited the Spivey brothers
into the cell from the Jail and took them to
the Butler county Jail at Hamilton, o. a
distance Of IS miles. The mob then find
ing that it had been beaten dispersed and
the village was quiet during the latter
part of the night.
This village, with its three large insti
tutons of learning, is noted for its culture
and order, but it was the scene over yeal
ago of the lynching of Henry Corbn,
negro, for the murder OF Mrs. Horner, ant
STRIKING feature OF the attempted lynch
ing last night was the part taken by thu
negroes, who protested every time the rop,
was slackened and Joseph Spiycy was lie
down to say his prayers, write to his wifi
and children or for any other purpose o
mercy.
Some of the negroes raised quite dis
turbance while proclaiming that il the ma
had been negro he would surely hav
been lynched in the first place withou
any one giving heed to his appeals. Th
mob was without leader at any time, b,
still it would have been foied only fc
the appeals of the Woodruff brothers to |,
the law take its course.
May Not Live.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hamilton, o., Oct. a.-Thc physician
attending the Spivey brothers, two of IL
five men injured in Oxford last nigh
renort both today in a serious conditin