Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1882 — A MOB FOILED. [ARTICLE]

A MOB FOILED.

The Would-Be Lynchers Fired On and Numerous Peaceful Citizens Shot Down. Five People Killed Outright, Six Seriously Wounded, and Seventeen Others Slightly Hurt [Telegram from Ashland, Ky.] Wm. Neal and Ellis Craft were convicted some months ago at the Catlettsburg (Boyd county, Ky.) Circuit Court of the murder of Robert and Fannie Gibbons and Emma Carrier. They were granted a new trial by the Supreme Court. George Ellis, an accomplice, who confessed and was sentenced to imprisonment for life, was hanged by a mot at Ashland, last summer. On Monday last Neal and Craft, guarded by 220 State troops, with one section of artillery, arrived at Catlettsburg from Lexington, where they have been held for safekeeping, to stand trial. Yesterday Judge Brown granted a change of venue to Carter county. Last night a mob at Ashland stopped a train on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, and searched it for the prisoners. This afternoon at 2:30 Sheriff Kountz, with the State troops and prisoners, boarded the steamboat Granite State for Maysville, intending to go thence by rail to Lexington to the jail to confine the prisoners untl trial The mob at Ashland, which is five miles down the river to Catlettsburg, seized a ferryboat and stood out to intercept them. The Granite State, under full headway, steamed around the ferryboat, when, seeing they were about to lose their prey, the mob opened fire, w hich w'as returned by the troops with fatal effect. The ferryboat party, finding the troops were in earnest, withdrew, with one killed and several wounded. The battle was for several minutes pretty hot, but the steamboat rapidly got away and out of range of the shore in front of the Aldine Hotel. The fire of the troops was severe, the shots passing over the ferryboat and killing five spectators and wounding twenty-one others. Among those ki led was a woman an J an infant in her arms, whose brains were dashed out by a stray shot. In the m : dst of the excitement a runaw'ay team and wagon dashed into the struggling mass of citizens as they fled from the murderous bullets, altogether making a i rightful scene. The community is very much excited and threats are made to go to Lexington in Jorce and execute vengeance upon the prisoners. None of the passengers were hurt by the fire of the mob. The following is a partial list of the killed and wounded:* Killed—Col. Rippart, George Kener, a child of Henry Dunlap, James McDonald, John Baugh. Seriously wounded Charles Bolinger, Will Charles Bolinger, Wi lies Serrey, Will Springer, Moses Serrey, Gerham Randall and Robert Pritchard. Slightly wounded—Mart Dunlap, Alex. Harris, John Gallagher, Julius Sommers, Thomas Bird, Mrs. B. Butler, A. H. Dickson, Thomas Demerera. N. E. B 11, Dr. Gills, Martin Gear, Robert Lowther and J. W. House. CoL Rippart, numbered mon? t e kil ed, was an old and bg ly respected citiz not 70-odd years, un ver - ally 1’ v d and a fav rite of b th old and y ring. H - was f-t icr-in-law of Col Douglass Putnam, Jr,, Superintend n of the Ashland Coal and I on Railway Company,.and well-known in Marietta circ'es. Mrs. Butler, numbered among the wounded, was attending a meeting held by the ladies cf the tow'n for the purpose of organ zing a public re iding-room in a room donated for the purpose in the Union depot, which is situated on the river front at least a quarter of a mile below the scene of the shooting. Mrs. Butler is the wife of the Auditor of the Chattaroi railway. Other bullets striking the depot and penetrating the walls caused its occupants to seek healthier quarters. The list of wounded inc’udes all ages and both sexes, and .amputations in several cases will be necessary.