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i ve i luvior, uui i uau uu uuit* vi**iu *drill•ampprtftit In-force.Frank Graul being called testified » f»*li*le ia Sanduskv; am a painteran innocent and inoffensive viigin female,lows: 1 rand in a very few feet from the hearthstoneof A. K. West’s mansion, and with a deadly*v o eapation. Oil the even'Dg of the -Ithin-t. 1 was on tire corner of Columbus eve-ownireweapon she w, ^ truck senr-elegs, outraged and murdered m the day time. Then hiselt; ui -sn n mu ie to the officers of the law,a. .. ,and going with them and showing themI... ,t,n|f 0-L.ini irom th« *uth ecd »l the, * , lh„ co s(ter■ .... Wn. I,;, to Ih p;«od» 1 j*v hav kwiwl,uue.ud Al iitti t sireet. I heard yelling andalto j they had a darkey them. I went unto „ * . j Tayllt; rand got bon! of him by the lappefof his vest.i an tI tried to keep the mob of! the J best I coaid. ‘‘Bril,’' says I. “now I have I always t»lt; en a good friend of yours, and for end-1 God a sake make a confession ; maybe the mob will kill you. ’ Bill arid: “1 know it Funk, and 1 will conf+ss if the crowd will keep null ” Then I told them ail to keej quiet liecaase Taylor was going to speak; but the crowd woaldn’t listen but kept ylt; hing “bang bias!” The next thing thatregi-posenorelib-Ithato ina*IkuiatAt6At.i exmpsthevI knew a rope was put around Taylo neck. I did not see any rope in any one’s hand. Taylor was j-rked away while he was talking to in*-. My idea was that he had escaped because he went so quick. 1 ^aw some one falling dow n the steps of the pagoda had then the crow d rushed down to itie co uer t f Columbu avenue and Market street and stopped at a larappo-t. I r.i^h ed through the crowd a: d saw Taylor lying in the gutter; I telt his pulse and fonnd jhe was dead. Then I asked what was thewtedge of the affair;the negligent e of our citizens and city au thorities in t ken time bv the forelock toWsuppress the riotous demonstration, which had inanitested itself twenty-four hours be f.»ro the lynching of aid Taylor: the offi «*ei- making known his confession before the prisoner was secured from the infuriate t mob; making a public exposition of the murdered mutilated body, covered with gore, in a farm* r’s wagon, going through i ur streets in an exposed condition, which inflame 1 the already burning jpas-ion of the friends of the murdered Alice O’Donnell; the bringing back of the prisoner within the very reach of the mob; the farce of turning him over to the sheriff in the very jaws of death; the negligenceof our broad cloth citizens ia calling uponour authorities to entorce the law in out-j ting down riotous manifestation, and their cowardly conduct in not trying by word, acti m or deed while the murderer was in j the hand-* of the mob to rescue him. hotnaa i ing u This housilarge The i men I comr the o An i and i othei even i GrowThtheMomlion.ingWellsistaiworkgrowaud tyard his tevineyat O foundJoppiin ouuse of h ad pingfanb in, as be then Then i saw a roue thrownaroun I the I imp p*-r 1 don’t know whothl, ! on the other hand, they stood looking ou‘ * v tad witnessed the whole affair with sealedtu retuse.lt; v, it. Tf pulled on ;t and the rope ke, and then »mo one spliced orj tied it, but 1 don’t kuow who did it.^bojThen they pulled him up again about twofeet Lain tie- ground. Then the crowd\va it* *l to .-je him and some oue got hold of his leg And trie 1 to hoi-t him up higher I I said there was no u?e in that; he wa1 in£ , d- id ; b it some one shouted to take in thenot {slack of the rope, and somebody said: “Graol, you g-t up’’ Then 1 got np oni ps; w hereas s;l *nce limans admission.i' by fore do yon speak now throngh de-t Il» atsi odno n lloiner Goodwin, who has done more toward staying the arm of justice than any ten lawyers in this city in punishing murien-rs. Are you not aiders andabettors, for by your own negligonce you a lowed the law of the land to be overridden by the law of natnre, which will i always he the ca^e under such loo»e management. There never was a case in which Judge Lvncb was more jutified under the ibove circumstances mentioned, time aodgrape Wlt; the LIus an the kplaceThisay n grape viney oar i AvonCatavd !ihadI « , I I I I ** i .— kw V i .ivuiUBiaiivvH mi imiuvu, tliiiDtwoiv,.u«. .booldm-ld.mt iDow who , , doj , t what k h'lifi we — a; i ii '.!.** xaek oi e L ... i ._.i i: i j_' .u._ . ,r._ ,aicbail)g arope a fast as two men elevated him. Then 1 got down and went off. 1 didn t 're Taylor cut down, and I did not recog nize any one at the lamp post.would and did do, than in this case. Hard ly has three years past in which three murders have been committed in our county and all the murderers are free, except oneflUi 7..... ‘7’ . f ,, imprisoned tor life. Two Irish boys furJ. IV. Newman. Superintendent of the Jfi w *CleSoare c*and gightmg are c»w imprisoned, one for t wenty and the second for fifteen years,hi- prisoner at the Infirmary, testified ttat i°,ber “** that ■**' baPP»*-lt;if . i . . . i + it___i i i ii (li 4ned County infirmary, alter giving the facts ia i in a to the arrival of Sheriff Starr and! Higginss*idthed avio the Sheriff wmSe m the yard ; of that institution . “Siarr, you will have | ;o biitig back your prisoner ” Starr repli ed. “I have a duty to perform by lux a ^d{ I shall do it.” Higgins saidMair, it sr:in h o osc ; I will die right here before thatcommunity that could be mentioned.i' bio* dy affair will be a terrible lesson* o'.r “.aw abiding citizens” to take time-warning. Fbkd. Kbiitheimer, Jr.,Attorney at Law.September H, 1S78for thhim nconra fact t:ere 1 pr § oner ?*bAli go away from baada-ky.impStir replied; “L shall no’ givo np the prisuer.** Higgins then said; “You will haveto walk over our dead Ixxlii ' if vlt;*n takoWilliam Higg.ns for Shenff! Frank Graulfor Mayor IEn. Rfeoi.sTKB —In view of the recentptn-lon-ibe prisoner any farther, ia:I will 'piii tne event-* allow’ me to sogge-t the name ofereP.tr^t?r.w.7laS tlTsT -dependent c.udi-in reibrokennexaStomiin thefeeblesleep,blessiimiedate for Sheriff of Erie county at the eu-u-anddusky.” Witness stated that at that jnuc tore Afr. Graham drove up with a r*g to ing election, and the name of Frank Graaluntake Starr aod Taylor to N’orwalk, but at M a canclidale for Mavor of the city viceter some consultation it was decided toing* » iniiv v^»u. uuuuiva iv y iv i ftTM i * »r TIT • 1 /A i . .brirg Tav or back to town, on Higgins’ ^ Wi.son (t* be impt-ached).Both of the above named*s.promise that ho would not be molested.en have provedby-The invc'rigation closed ou Saturdav themselves Indd and determined as leaders% »procetspeed!conchfertili;life-suis inofvegetisafe.theThe O»;oner has not vet rendered bis ver °f a mob, and I doubt not had they occu-tnerpied the posit-on of peace officers aod repFobledTHE MOB OCKSTIONresentatives of lew and older, they wouldAyer’s;heThe following are the two regulations have had nerve and expedience sufficientalyread at the Park meeting on Saturday and 10 saved the name of our city from aManledhisheartily approved by every friend of law and order on the groundfoal dhgrace.hearinRe metidsras-i*tu r,Whereas. On the day of September,1878, a cum of a most revolting and hor rible nature wa* perpetrated upon the b *iy of Alias A ice 0’Donne!!, a young ladv of roost etuuable character, by oneeQe£.DOL^eVTeibeireinWm Taylor, which crime being fastened upon him to the public mind, and for which said Taylor, it legally convicted, ought to have suffered the extreme penalty of the Uw. therefore, be itlitmlc* i, Toat we tender to the re:a lives and friei da oar most beirtieit sympathies in this, their darkest hour of bereave men; aud that a copy of this preimbie andresolution be furnished to the family aDdfi ends of ?aid Al ee O’D ronell.Wherras, The Bar lt;i Erie oonnty, ata called meet ug held at the Court House in this ciiy on Thursday, adoptei the fo low ing preamble and resolutions:bedit-dsadirberePREAMBLE AND RRSOLrTIOH.The B*r of Erie conuty have learaed with horror and dismay tba*. within the laft tw»*at} four hourscit /eng of Sandusky have taken a h iroau being irom the lt;fficers of the law. while n the discharge of tbeir official dmies, and without trial, or givinghim any opportunity to oe heard fn big defen.*e, and occornpatbd with circumstan ces of greatest indignity aud c nelty, put him to death. Th s transaction is a bnrn Dgdisgrace to our easy, and ought never to beDoe' any one suppo-e for a moment that had Frank’Granl been Mayor of the city j by all last W eduesday he woald have remaintd apassive io »ker on while au infuriated mob |was about him openly threatening the peace of our community f Not at all. It wa* only our imbecile and cowardly excuse of a Mayor who would do that. Does any one for a moment suppose that had William Higgins been Sherifi of Erie county in charge of the prioner Taylor and responsible for hss safe keeping* be would have secured a slow poke 01 a bor*e to run Taylor away from a pursuing mob, aud then when overtaken by two noton- j mu roughs who claimed to be repre*eota- j tives of the mob, te would have yielded to 1 he threats aud promises of the.-e irre-1 'ponsibie and lawie-g ruffians and given np his pri-oner to the tender mercies of an insane mold Not at all. It remained for the mamby-paraby, milk and w'ater nincompoop, who is at prerent in receipt of the fat perqu 'ites of the Shenfl s office, to do so foolish and cowardly a throg. What- I ever may be said of Uiggms and Graol as lawless ruffians, they have certainly proveo * themselves bold and resolute men who, if enlisted on the right side, armed with proper authority, wwuld have made a different showing’ from the poor, cowardly idiots who are in charge of the peace and gm*d order of our city and county.Law A5D Order.is an ui baa btslt;rhas si eauntil iteffect ii It arre*ilru amentIt i»t-hampit are ; Hon. T“ Co D. Jot** Ch;Rev leiAs.* *• *M•4U*441*«• 4RJ.lReDrS. iwrenovat$2 aJackaoi
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Sandusky Daily Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 09, 1878
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