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THE SANDUSKY DAILY REGISTERSEPTEMBER1878LYNCHa’atcte, be fal, prescribes that if a man, remains of Tayl »r. They found several w:th deliberate malice, takes the life of an- ! contused and lacerated wounds on bis bead, other man, the murderer shall be hanged. The face atd front portion of the bead wereThe CityIDisgrace.If a human being'.' life is taken a tribunal bt»dh bruised and the skin was completely of law, cxerciaine the n-cest and most torn from the forehead and nose. Three careful discrimination, should be entrusted large wonnds were found above and backwith the trial of the murderer; but for a of the ear. The face was of course muchbrutal mob to beco me the 'elf-constitutedMEETING- OF THE ERIE executioners, is a burniDg disgrace to hu-COUNTY BAR.ResolutionAdoptedDemanding the Arrest ofthe Lvnchers.CITIZENS' MELTING CALLEDFOR TO NIGHT.Posl-Mortem Examination ofTaylor’sRemains—-TheBody Buried.swollen and presented a horribly siokening appearance. The brain was foundinanity. Mr. Goodwin then read tbe loi-« to be slightly corjested. Tbe neck lowingPRFAMBLK AND RESOLUTION:The Bar of Erie county have learnedwith horror and dismay that within tbe last twenty four hourscitizensof Sandusky have taken a hatran being from tbe officers o! the law, while in the discharge of theirofficial duties, and without trial, or giviog him any opportunity to be heard in his de-fruse, and accompanied w;th circumstances of greatest ind:goity and cruelty, put him to death This transaction is a burning di'grace to our city, f nd ought never to be and will not be submitted to bv a tree peo pie; but on tbe contrary oar people will demand that an infuriated mob shall not be. c«»me the self-appointed triers and execu-jtit n**rs o' a c tizen of Ohio. T! eretore,DOWN WITH THE MOBSDECENTMEN. ATTENTIONCall for a Public Mealing: at tbe Operallouae this Evening;was not dislocated, a fact which shows that Taylor died of strangulation. The body was horribly braised cn nearly every porti n—the result of club- ! man tnt* k°£*weU circulated the followingbiug. kicking and fiendish treatment cai* ' ^laiae^ tQe signatures annexed.At the meeting of the bar yesterday afterncon it was decided to call a public meeting for this evening at the Opera Hoase to take pablic action in regard to the outrage of Wednesday. Aessrs. Wild.Whereas at a meeting of the members of the bar of Erie county, at the Conrt Home on Thursday, the 5th day of September 1878, it was resolved that a committee ofThe Coroner's inquest will be com- | two be appointed to obtain signers to acall for an indignation meeting of tbe citi-*ens of Sandnskv to express the sense of thf citizens upon the occurrences of Wednesday, tbe fourth of September inst. We,AN INTERVIEW WITH FATHER SIDLEY.Ill ItKSOI NCFS TilK ACTION OlTIIF. MOBJietolccd. That the members of the Bar of Erie county demand of the constituted authorities the fullest investigation of the transaction of last evening, and that the parties implicated in the affair shall bebrought before the courts to be dealt with according to the law of the land.which he received whib being dragged by the mob. Tbe remains have been interredin the Potters’ Field, near Oakland Cerne-terj-.menced tc day.ALICE O'DONNELL.Tne funeral of Alice O’Donnell, the mur-deredjgtrl, will take place to-day. The re mams have been kept since Wednesday night §\ the house of Patrick Henoby, brother in law of tbe uufortunate youngthe undersigned, therefore ask the citizens to meet at Biemiller’s Opera House at seven and a half o’clock of the evening September 6th inst:ofwoman.INTERVIEW WITH FATHER SIDLEY.lielproceeding of Wednesday.Tin intense excitement over the murder remember any pars ol Alice O’Donnell and the lynching of Wm. Taylor m-ided a little yesterday, hot still there was much bitter feeling dieplayed. Tbs better class of people of course denounced the brutal murder of speaker, are guilty of a high crime, and ifTa lor in unmeasured terms, and felt keen- C**Y authorities refuse to take hoi ! olh* the disgrace which the mob violence the matter and see that the lynchers areHoratio WildmanP W Cogswell,U T Curran,Phillip CSchenkei. La-t evening a Register representative i Arthur Pbinney,called ai the residence of Father Sidley, of Homer Goodwin,John Mackey,J G Bigelow,E M Colver,W W Bowen, Father Sidley received tbe E C Boyd,to the outrageous | reporter courteously and entered at once A Hendry,It had not, he into conversation iu regard to the affair,St'. Peter and Paul’s Church of this city,Mr. Mackey said that he would heartily for the purpose lt;f learning bis views in revote for the adoption of the preamble and gard to tbe proceeding of the mobresolution. He remarked that be did notonWednesdayE B King.S B Hubbard,S C WheelerA W Miller,P A Green,T B Ta} lor,D G Taylor,F V Pullett,Chas o Norman, C W Keves.WGoosmau,Henry Gratis,A W Powers, Albert Adoiph,1 Weilt r,M Gallup,aid. within his knowledge, any parallel which ho characterized unparalleled in John W Winter.-teen,D L Dayton,s nco the organization of the Government. The persons who did the lynching, said thepunished, the Judge of the Common Pleas great,brutalit) and expressed great regret that Fred W Alvotd,any thing of the kind should have occurred. ! j* AffleckLike every sensible man bethought the law q pj irn8 ought to have taken its course. While the P B Stroup, provocation to lynch Taylor was Stroble,yet ho said there was fir so barbarous aanohas brought upon our city and county. All jday long and far into the-light the street Court shoal! call the attention of the | justificationGrand Jury to the case and let that body He would gladly have prevented the! take tbe affair in baud. If we allowHenry Dehoel, John McKtdvey,40 1 James Dorau,I corners were occupiei by men:sFAGSBLY DISCUSSING THE AFFAIR,aud ail but the plug uglies wero of one opinion as to the eoormitv of the outraco..imsn totakeset the law at defiancefrom theIt seemed a’most to surpass belief that in an enlightened community a mob, with uo attempt whatever at concealment of fa . facts or persona, should take a prisoner away faun an officer of the law*, drag himoutrage ii it had been possible lor him to tio so, but he said that the mob was beyond the control of auy one man.T11K LYNCHERS EXCITED.There was considerable excitement onS J Catberman,Wm Hamilton, F B Stevens m, S Monat,John R Traub, A Guenther,Win Seitz).a pr.sonerhands of an officer and hang him, womight as well bid farewell to law and j (rrder. The proceedings of Wednesday 1aroused tlie ju-t indignation of every law i among the men who Lad been concerned ! 0 E Gillet,abiding mafi. While we can r t wholly in t ie lvnehimr of Tavlor. The result of ! H Matem.Clark Hade,. u • L i E Gdlsffl,toe streets up to a late hour last night j()[jU Gmeleb,in the lynching of Taylor.- through the streets by the neck, and hang wipe out the disgrace cf the affair, we can j tbe bar meeting hail become pretty gen- 'VV M Aie lvillothe man to a limp-post ia the m »st prom- by proper action prevent its recurrence. ; eruily known on the streets, anu tho iynch-iuent portion i f the city. In point of bra The crowd that banged Taylor were not tality and tiendishnesa the proceeding moting out justice; they were simply gratiiT finds no parellel even in the history oftying a des re I r vengeance. They are Ui»de that if any further steps were takenW V Latham,ers and their friends and sympathisers J F McFall,were much exercised. Threats were freely : J d Banks,W F Parsons,r.at.M.. Mr.. M . M M.| THE BORDER VIGILANTKKS! or the infuriated mobs of uegro-hater' of the South.not the executors otscribe*! for their crime.bloodshed.ever, la.'t night, the parties evidentlytI •I, , , . Thos Whitworth,the law, anil tney to punish the lynchers, there would be , hc Huntington,should be made to suffer the penalty prc bloodshed. There was no violence, how- ! M F Cowderv,Lonis Adolph,Judge Hendry .-aid that the lynching ol awai-ing the result of the citizens’ meeting p p zTdhnger^ °r iu pa sing along Columbus aveuue or Taylor exceeded iu barbarity anything | before 'howing their hands. Geo Lehr,A Textor,David M Arndt, Ed H Zurhorst,L A Spencer,Hundreds of people stopped ye'terday,Market street, to look at the Ump-post on ! that had occurred in Ohio iu half a century.« . . f iyi Alii .'4/I ♦ K af ft n tr% ft r* i /Il«. Wi.ichTAYLOR WAS IIANGFD.m.in.m.KMitMMi Pieces of wood, string, etc., that ! found among the gutter refuse at tbe base ; of the 1 lt;t were eagerly seized upon and carrie*! away as mementos of the terrible tragedy. Hags torn from 1 aylor'a clothing,The tug Mystic will leave here at 5:30 a. in. next Sunday for an excursion trip to Cleveland, and will leave that citv on the9 w T msuffers from the disgraae of the proceed ! return trip at 12 o’clock Sunday night, iogs of the m*»b, an 1 it there are any who dasire to enjoy a delightful rideou the water are invited to attend the exit! very method that can be devised should be seized upon hv the people were here to i xpreas their indignation. Our citymeans by which we cau set the law abidingpeople of tl e city right in tho eyes of the j cursiondollar.Fred chHefler, J W Hunter, James S McCoy, W H Wilson,H C Post,Henry P Ritter.G hlt; 1 a Cook,J C Bloker,A M Wilcox,WCSeigting. Casper Kersie, John Cameron,M Lebensburger, Joa Krontfcal,J B We s,Louis Traub, Daniel Kuns,J F*|ood,Peter A Kilian,C H Muenscher, S E Hubbard, Chas E Bonton,D C Powers, Henry Glieger.R Hathaway.J C Kinney,John Whitworth, H H Morton.C Corell,W G Hastings,G M Hecb,Ctas P Caldwell, C C Keecb,Thomas Wood,B W Thompson, W R Zollinge-,E Graves,Fare lor the round trip only onand bits of the tope with which be was country, let ua employ such means. Wehafitiod, were carried awav c n Wedm-'dayM ,u nigtit by the infnriated m«»b and are d »ubt’ M Mare not iet this1 lo't to a lt;eu e of justice as t« | matter pa ». The life of a humanle s eari fully preserved.beine has been lak.oi bv a lawlers rabbi*',It was onlv bv tbe gr**itlt;».st 1 fflt;»rt that and there is uo course lelt for our peopl*»1#on-ifO. toj t » pursue except, to seek the punishment i f tlu* mob who did the deed.Air. Bijreiow said that he thought the1.M.00CW)1550(the mob were kejv ftomKI RMNO TAYLORS KD»I»Yalter they feai hange! him. A gentlemanj inf**rmed un fast night that he was ttand disgrace brooght upon the city should le I iug close to the lamppost ju-t after the wiped out. He said that it he bad been May-jexecuti* u and that he faw a man endeav oring to pour coal oil on tLe corpse from ahalf gallon can. It was the intention ofthe mob to saturate the clothes of theoods, negro with the oil and then pile dry g boxes around the corpse and set fire to theor and loti had a gun loaded with grupe shot, be would have f* It like firing it into tbe mob. Too muoh force could n«»t have been used. The next thing we know some bodv el-e will be mobbed or released fromcustody.^lUr1Prosecutor B wen aro^e and said thatThe Secretary of the Interior has decided that the lauds grauted by tbe Gov eminent to the Pacific Railroad companies unsold or undisposed of, are opeu to pre emption by private persons at $1.25 pera re. The Kansas Pacific Railway Com panv gives notice that all the lands granted to that company by the Government have been sold, or ili posed of within the meaning of Congress, thus fully protecting all its land purchaser.-, and the company’s Laud Commissioner wiil continue to sell theJ S Cowderv.mNow, fellow citizens, we appeal to all of you who believe in law and order, who value the peace of society and the safety ot your persons and property to attend this meeting and express, by your preeenoe, yonr indignation at the scenes which digraced our city ou Wednesday night.THE NEIGHBORHOOD.burglars at KlrmingliamEd. Register :—As yet feeing no acc«»unt of our late burglar haul in the Register, f thought it an item“big’'enough •I whole. They were prevented from doingthis by some of the cooler headed men • d seemed to him to be tho duty of thewho were present and who had taken no Dirt iq the d sjnceluf proceedings.Coroner to investigate the mutter tboroughly, and if he should return a verdictlands giving proper contracts or deeds and warranted titles. For information with regard to ther-e lands, and for cheap rates,etc., apply to G. C. Wattles, the company’s agent in this city. Residence, 819 Camp street. P. 0. Box 361.to report. One week ago to day our quiet little village was thronged with people, like on election day, to witness the examinationot Ed. Ennes and Ebeuezer Hopkins, who were arrested ou the charge of burglarizingthe houso of Ambrose Deuman. The hearing took place before ’Squire Andress, who bound them over to county court, and iudefault of bail the prisoners were remanded
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