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The Cleveland Lradtr, when the reportot William Taylor’s lynching reached it,started the report that Taylor was a Clevelander. there being a colored man 02 that name then missing Irons the city. Being natudiwl that Tavlor, who was murderedW - 9by the mob, was not the Cleveland man, the Platn Ikalrr i«* greatly rejoiced, whsl** it cannot understand why such desperate efforts were made to fasten him on Cleve land. William Taylor, the murderer of Alice O’Donnell, was a Southerner by birth and originally a slave. Some time during the war be was brought to this county and has remained in or about Sandusky up to the day of his death. Be wa* an ignorantand brutal man, and yet a legitimate product ot Democratic civilisation a* developed in the South for hall a century. He directly answered for his crime by a horrible death. The ► laveholdiog Democracy ot the Saouth ate chiefly responsible tor the production of tuch men as Taylor, and we of the North, who are not sponsors tor eiarery, must endure a? best we can the legitimate traits ot an institution to the fostering ot which the Democratic party gave its best y ears and efforts.(irani's testimony before the Coroner, cunningly a* he put it to shield hirclt;cit, is enough to fasten squarely on him the charge that be w* an active participant in ;the disgraceful scenes ot ie*Mt Wed nr laynight. Hie assertion that he trlt Taylor's jiutee and discovered that be was dead be j tore he was hune to the lamp post is, to use a street r \pr» -*ion, deoidtdl 'thin. It oui be proven that Tavlur w as not deadiwhen hung to the Ump post, and iiraul as a medical expert would not count as he would be as likely to feel f *r the pulse at the heel as at the m net. But t e did ad lait that he took part in hanging the body U Taylor to the post, dead or alive, that bo was on the pagoda, «cu active participant there, and ihal he kept to ehtse to Taylor that he waa at the post in time to1 lit in Lis work there. It will also be put
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Sandusky Daily Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Tue, Sep 10, 1878
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