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X a 11 IS Is I1U1 itu. X tUitiJtV X iUU IVtJli 111 IU CVtlJfthing, but found no money. The children were then awake, and both stood up in bed on their arms looking out at me. I thought I would have to kill them,for if I did not they would tell on me. Then 1 cut their throats—the little girl's lirst. i She was on the front side of the bed. The boy j was upon his elbow when I took hold of him, and he struggled. 1 cut his throat, but do not. remember of stabbing him.” •The prisoner says that he took the murdered man's rifle and departed by t lie back door over the hills ten miles to the Kicka-poo river, where ho washed himself, and then wandered through the woods and slept in a shanty till \ o’clock in the morning before he returned to Jennings’ place, where he changed his clothing. He describes the spot where he hid the gun, how he spent the next day going from place to place, and how he freely conversed with many people along the road conceruing the murder, etc. The knife and revolver with which the crime was committed were found on his person when captured. The revolver is a live-shooter, jfcJ-ealiber, andthe knife a long-bladed jack-knife.A few hours after the arrival of the prisoner in this city yesterday there was loud talk of lynching, and crowds of excited men from the neighborhood where the murder occurred began to gather. The crowd and the excitement continued to increase until about 11 o'clock, when a mob of fully 1,000 determined men inarched upon the jail and demanded the murderer. The officers resisted and tho barriers to the jail were broken down. One hour was consumed in breaking down the steel cage in the upper room of the jail, where the prisoner was confined, lie fought desperately and warded off every body, but was finally overcome. A rope was put about his neck and he was brought to the porch below, where he firmly protested his innocence. But two or three in the crowd were aware of his confession and they refused to give evidence. The scene at the jail was horrible. The prisoner was covered with blood, having been terribly mangled while the steel cage was being battered down, and stood for an hour with the halter about hisneck, pleading for his life.At 12:45 this morning the mob hanged tho prisoner to a tree in front of the courthouse, and let him down again to see if he would confess. The mob strung Grandstaff up four times and the last time left his body hanging to the tree, where it remains.The murderer, Andrew Grandstaff, was ayoung man, v!4 years of age. He was born in this county, in the town of Franklin, of illegitimate parentage. He was ignorant of learning and could neither read or write. He was of a daring temperament, but had never been considered desperate or depraved enough to commit wholesale murder.
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New Philadelphia Times
New Philadelphia, Ohio, US
Thu, Jun 07, 1888
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