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I-e» *rwould lunch together in the grove.To this proposition, Miss McMahonjaftIy%l-consented, and Foley went to Kirk'srestaurant and procured thewlches.:eWhen he left the young woman.0several young girls were enjoyinging was necessary to prevent future repetition of the offense.FOLEY ARRESTED.the shade of a tree only a short die-I1-tanee away, and several colored boyswere Ashing in the river near bytOUTRAGED IN FULL VIEW OF WITNESSES.Almostafter FoleyiMiss McMahon, Leyis, whoieis * burly mulatto, put in an appearance a»*i brutally outraged the girlview of those mentioned above.A representative of the Argus visited Port Jervis this morning. Hefound that village still in an excited condition and groups of men were standing about the streets engagedin discussing the affair. He ascertained that Foley, who had gone to the Xeversink with Miss McMahan, had been arrested in the lower endof the Erie yard, at 4 o’clock, this morning and placed in the lock-up.ws.Miss McMahon made a frantic»1AS.*em,*oisoutcry, which attracted the attentionof the boys who were fishing in\eversink. who hurried to the setAt 10 o’clock CoroDer Harding empaneled a jury who viewed the body of Lewis, at Carley Terwilligers undertaking establishment, and the inquest was adjourned subject to the of the coroner.but were kept at bay by Lewis with a revolver until he had accomplishedLEWIS'S BODY A SHOCKING SIGHT.y,h.purpose, when he fledleaving his victim, whom he had choked into insensibility, in a most critical condition.The body of the victim of the Port Jervis mob had not yet been prepared for burial, and was m the same condition as when lowered from the tree*;vImmediately after Lewis’s disappearance,Foley came back with the sandwiches, and several persons who hau been attracted by the cries of Mis-ahon and the littlelast night. It was a horrible sight to look upon, being covered w blood and bruises from head to focaused by the cruel beating and kick it had received at the hands o■ea*rded on the scene and carried Miss Me Mahon to her house.me, way -fromthe lockup to the fatal tree. TheTHE NEWS SPREADS.ISvvneiefnews of the terrible crimesHttllgtiespread like wild-fire was a scene of wild excitement fromthe moment. Descriptions of man were sent in all directions.theWAITING FOR THE ORANGE COUNTYbody was almost naked, the clothing having been literally torn from the man while being dragged through the streets. The face was terribly swollen, due, as Dr. Van Etten says, to his death by strangulation.Miss McMahon is still in a criticalIt was reported late in the afternoon that Lewis had been arrestedR;e;odin Otisville and would reach PortJervis on the Orange County Express and when the train arrived a solidcondition, nearly her whole body be ing covered with bruises as a result of the brutal treatment she receivedof angryeitmassplatformthe vicinity and when itfilled theinr;c*nthe streetsof the lt;3was found thatTl-,1Lewis was not on the train much disappointment was apparent. When it was reported that he had been taken to Goshen the angry mobcalled for volunteers to go to that village and take him from the jail.at the hands of the burly negro.Lewis, the victim of lynch law, wasan illegitimate son of the widow of Happy Hanks,’* a former notorious colored resident of Port Jervis. He«*had been away from Port Jervis for about five years, which time he spent at his mother’s near Paterson.FOLEY SPIRITED AWAY TO GOSHEN.A mob of 150 persons had congregated around the lockup ail the morning but towards noon, had thinned out somewhat, as the officers who wereBROUGHT IN A WAGON AND STRUNG UP.Just then wordthatJ,ewas passed Lewis had been captured at Huge not,and was being brought into town in a wagon, and in less time than it takes to tell it, a crowd of 1,000 men had gathered and when a wagon,in which sat Lewis, bound securely, droveto the lockup, it was instirounded, the officers were crowdedguarding the lockup had assured the crowd that Foley would not be takenback, a rope was produced almost instantly, a noose was placed aboutArrangements had, however, been made with the Erie officials to take Foley to Goshen Jail and at 12:15Brie train 6 was backed up from the depot to Snssex street and the prisoner was hurried down that street to the train under an escort of sixpolicemen and constables.followedby a great crowd of people who only needed a leader to have made aOn T1and sh«they w€ of the 5return! wiches. asked fc to her Ilise, etcvillage that heand rocan exp claims who wi while 1house f Missto delivman re the mlt;down tlhad lef roundeare em She tol the asswell ea; Port Jeat P. HeveningMahonwords swent to refusedthe nig to the twmming.porter i that heknow atil he vtyoung ifeet sixin a sseemedfamily,Wheimade blatter hcommitdeniedseenthat he not eveonly tinwith hwhile eiber’s bLewis LCit bwoiconfideand strlt; One Dlt;Sarsape*rn n
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Middletown Daily Argus
Middletown, New York, US
Fri, Jun 03, 1892
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