Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-02
OFFICERS FO|LED MOB
Attempt to Lynch Man at
Oxford, Ohio.
FIVE MEN BADLY HURT
VICTIM HAD SERIOUSLY WOUND
ED CITY MARSHAL.
Strung Up Three Times, He Was
Finally Rescued and Spirited
Away to Another Town.
FIVE MEN BADLY HURT

| OXFORD, Ohio October 2.-Five men
| were seriously injured and one narrowly
| escaped lynching several times as the re-
suit of last evenings riot at this place.
Those injured are:
John Woodruff marshal of Oxford. be-
lieved to be fatally shot.
Jacob Manrod, deputy marshal, serious
ly shot in the back and in the shoulder.
Ernest Jotten, a country school teacher
of Monroe Ohio, believed to be fatally shot
III the abdomen.
| Louis Spivey of Wagersville, Estill county,
Ky, seriously shot in the back and breast.
Jos. Spivey. skull fractured by stone; also
of Wagersville Estill county, KY.
The Spivey brothers were visiting Edward
Richardson of Billingsville, Ind. just across
the state line from Oxford. The three came
here to attend the annual street fair and
farmers exposition. The town was filled
with strangers when these three men be-
gan carOuSing in a saloon They pulled
their reVOlverS on the bartender. who eject
ed them, and then they proceeded to raise
more trouble in other saloons. When Mar
shal Woodruff undertook to arrest them he
was mortally shot. A fusillade of bullets
in the crowded streets followed the shoot
ing of the marshal Deputy Marshal Man
rod was shot twice when he took the place
of his chief. During this fusillade in the
Slittt E1ineSl JOlten WDlle returning from
his school to his boarding house, was struck
in the abdomen by stray bullet and he is
now in a critical condition.
Ran After Doing the Shooting.
After the shooting the three men ran IN
different directions, with crowds after each
one, and each VS. hit in the head with
Louis Spivey was shot by citizen The
excitement was intense when the three
men were finally lodged in Jail after run
ming mile from the scene of the shoot
ing. Edward Richardson was dismissed
after it was shown that he had nothing to
do with the shooting. and was only accom-
panying the Spvey brothers.
The crowds that had been pursuing the
three men in different directions finally
concentrated about the jail and battered
down the door and took Joseph Spivey out
to lynch him. There possibly never was
such an experience of any one in the hands
of mob 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 its haste
the mob did not pinion 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 farewell let
ter to his wife and children, and at an
other time some one cut the rope. Be
lore the mop Ilnally succeeded IN hanging
him until dead the officers grabbed him
and rushed him off to the city prison
where the mob held at bay for some
time, and finally order enough was re-
stored for speeches to be made by eX-MayOr
Flanagan, Rev. DR.. Thomas ]. Potter and
the brother of Marshal Woodruff
While the speeches We're being delivered
the officers spirited the Spivey brothers
into the cellar of the Jail and thence out
through coal shute, and made good their
escape with them to the Butler county Jail
at Hamilton. Ohio. a distance of fifteen
miles. The mob then finding that it had
been beaten dispersed and the village was
quiet during the latter part of the night.
Town Noted for Culture.
This village. with Its three large institu-
tions of learning, is noted for it's culture
and order, but it was the scene over a year
ago of the lynching of Henry Corbin, a
negro, for the murder Of Mrs. Horner and
a striking feature of the attempted lynch
ing 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 chill
dren and wife. and for any other purpose of
mercy. Some of the negroes raised quite a
disturbance while proclaiming that IL 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
1t would not have been foiled but for the
appeals of Woodruff's brother to let the
law take it's course.
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