The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-03-18
AN OHIO MOB
Shot a Negro to Death, Thon Hanged
Him and Shot Again.
NEGRO KILLED A POLICEMAN.
Tho Jail Was stormod by
the Mob, Who Took Their
Victim Out and Shot
Him to Doath.


Richard Dixon, negro, was shot
to dea5h at Springfield Ohio, Monday
night by mob, for the killing of
Policeman Charles Coils, who died
Monday from wounds received at the
hands of Dixon on Sunday.
Coils had Gone to Dlxon's room on
che ncgro's request. Dixon said his
miStre IS had ais clothes in her posses
sion. C)liS accompanied Dixon to the
room and In g. short time the man and
woman enga ged in quarrel which
resulted in DIXON shooting The wo-
man, who is variously known rs Anna
or Maraic Ctrbin, in the left breast,
just over the heart. She fell uncon-
scious at tie first shot anIl Colts
Jumpel towards the negro to prevent
his escape from the room. Dixon
then fired four balls into Coils, the
last OF which penetrated his abdo-
men. Dixon wentimmediately to po-
lice headquarters and gave himself
up. He was taken to jail.
As soon as Collis' death became
known talk OF lynching tn, negro was
heard and Monday night a crowd be.
gan to gather about the jail.
THE NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH.
At III o'clock the negro was taken
from tic ja!! and shot to death in the
jail yard and the body was taken from
there to the corner of Main street and
fountain avenue and hung to tele-
graph pole where the mob spent the
next half hour riddling the body with
bullets from several hundred revol-
verS. The mob forced an entrance to
the jail by butting in the east doors
with railroad iron. At To- 30 O'Clock
the mob melted rapidly and 1t was
the general opinion that no more at
tempts would be made to force an en-
trance. Small groups Of men, how
ever, could be seen in the shadows Of
the court house. two adjacent livery
stables and several dwelling houses.
at 1915 o'clock the police were sat-
lShed that there was nothing more to
fear and they, with other officials and
newspaper men, passed freely In and
out of the jail. Shortly before IL
O'Clock a diversion was made by a
small crowd moving from the east
doors around tothe south entrance.
rri,c nouoe fit;lowed sana-a BLUFF yras,
made at ]ostling them Off the steps
leading up to the sonth entrance.
me crowd at this point kept growing,
Wnlie ssnlie yeils OF hold the police"
smash the DOORS" lynch the Mig
ger" were made, interSpersed with re-
volver shots.
All this time the party with the
heavy railroad iron was beating Il the
east door which soon yielded to the
battering ram as did the inner lattice
IRON east door, and Overpowered the
snerlff, turnkey and handful of deputies
anu oegan the assault on the iron
Iurhstlle leading to the cells. The
ponce from I'll south door we're called
INSIDE TO keep the mob from the cells
anu In flvc minutes. the south door
had shared tt fate OF the east one.
MOB OF TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED.
In an incrc lible short time the jail
99"S h!led with q mob Of $50 men with
all the ,cntranccs and yard gates
blocked bN fully 1900 men, thus max
ing it impossible for the militia to
have prevent I'd access to the negro
had it ocon OF the scene. The heavy
iron partition leading to the cells re-
sisted ths'mob eifectually until cold
chisels and S'edge hammers arrived,
which we're only two or three minutes
later III acrivng. The padlocl; to the
turnsti,e was Irokeu and the mob soon
filled the corridors laading to the cells.
Seeing that further resistance was use
less ard to avoid the killing OF inno-
cent prisoners the authorities consent
ed to ihe dellan Of the mob for the
right man. ! lie was dragged from his
cell to the ia | door and thence down
the Stone ste pS to /, court in he Jail
yard. Fearing an attempt on part Of
the police tt rescle him The leaders
formed hoil)w square.
NINE SHOTS n Ills nopy.
Some one knocked the negro to the
ground and those ntaGto him ell back
four Of five feet. Nias shots we're fir
ed into his ptstratt body, anG satist-
ed that he was dead, b dozen men
grabbed the lifclCss blhg and with a
triumphant cheer thq mob surged
into Columbia street and marched to
Fountain avenue one ofyt.e principle
streets Of the town