People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — ISHED BY A MOB. [ARTICLE]

ISHED BY A MOB.

OHIO PEOPLEAVENGE A BRUTAL MURDER. Most Atrocious Crime at New Richmond Punished Without the Law's Delay —Fate of the Culprit Amply Deserved. New Richmond, 0., Aug. 22.—At 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon a mob took Noah Anderson, colored, from the jail here, and hanged him for the murder of Franklin Fridman, nearly 80 yenre n]d, and president of the First National Bank of this place. Mr. Fridman was among the wealthiest men in Clermont county. He owned a number of farms and lived at Clermontville, about two miles from New Richmond. He was driving into New Richmond shortly after noon yesterday, when he stopped at one of his houses. Hitching his horse at the dooryard, he went into an adjoining field, where he was suddenly attacked by Noah Anderson, a muscular negro, who had no weapon but his hands. With these he quickly bore the aged banker to the earth, and then, clutching his throat with the power of a demon, he literally choked his helpless victim to death. When satisfied that the man was dead, Anderson tied. Soon the prostrate man was borne to the house, and found to be past, all help. He was already dead. Fridman came from Germany and was a boilermaker. In 1840 he removed to Clermontville, Clermont county, 0., where he had ever since been- engaged in mercantile, manufacturing and banking pursuits, and had been until the time of his death president of the Fridman Lumber Company, president of the First National Bank and president of the Shain-Roberts Furniture Company, all of New Richmond, O. He leaves eleven children living. He is estimated to be worth about $1,000,000. Anderson came to New Richmond on a shanty-boat some months ago. 11-’ claimed to be a paperhanger by occupation.