Triple Hanging In Ohio
Item
- Title
- Triple Hanging In Ohio
- Source
- The sun (NY)
- Date
- 1880-06-26
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1880-06-26/ed-1/?sp=1&q=murder&r=0.461,0.119,0.342,0.163,0
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- murder; race
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- hung
- Location
- Out-Of-State; Canton, Ohio
- Length of story
- 1223
- Description
- TRIPLE HANGING IN OHIO nIIEE nor xtvitDEiiriia svfFEtuxa xnE Dl I1 lUNJr E ffbrt for n Commnlutlon Aitiimlliff the Am peel or it HcllBlont Itlrtilry Hie Mllltla Ordered Unt tu leeerve tho Icuve A Iropuied Sleek Hnnalnif Prevented CANTON 0 Juno 25 There wns great ox tomont In this town today ovor the hanging 01 George W llnnn O A Ohr and John Ram net the throo boy murderers Coups circus hal ndvortlecd to give two or three perform tuners within half I mile of tho jail umnd In an elpatlon of large anti possibly unruly mob tbe mllltln were ordered out to preserve tho poses nnd nn extra force of police was on duty Four military companies formed a hollow around the court house and jail and Square jnl nld no one was permitted Inside tho lines without a in 8 All the saloons were ordered closed Tho boys who had maintained an nlr of bravery while there was hope of HiecutUoolnmoncy begun to weaken when I became known that Guy Foster would not Interfere and thut bo md gone to New York to remain until after this liT fixed for tho hanging Mann and Ohr wore convicted of tho murder of John Watt mouch Ohr Is a native of Germany nod was brought up In Chicago Mann Is from New York The murder was com milled on 291879 In crovo near Alliance Ohio The victim was nn need man who lived lii Philadelphia but who had walked to Illinois to vIsit frlimdt and was returning the same wiiy Ho had fallen In with his murderers nnd had given them of his little storo of money to buy food nnd drink Ho had when killed only t5 and a hlver watch While asleep ho was at tacked by Ohr who struck him on tho heat with a car coupling pin Mann then stole his watch and moneynnd the murderers fled Wattmough ranted to a houso nnd told of tho attack but died without revealing his name Tho murder ore warn soon arrested convicted and ton enced John Bammet a boy of 17 years was convlctmi 01 f murdering Christopher Kpuhler a bov of 1C who was nn Important witness against him In a trial for grand larceny The boys met tho evening before the trial was to take place and Snmmet shot Huuhlor through the breast t Sam net wits tried on tho burglary cliargu and sentenced enced to fire years Imprisonment Ho was hen taken out of tho penitentiary and tried for murder convicted ant sentenced Mann has all along maintained that ho never truck old man Wnttmough I blow and that Onr Is guilty of the actual murder Ohr ad mitted his own guilt and declared Mann equally guilty with himself and flnco Mann hums told several stories and Obr but one the hancns are that the latters Is tilt truo one iJhte evidence is with him nlso Ohr was re cently appealed to by the Ilov Mr Kuhn his spIritual adviser to tell the whole truth and nothing but tho truth In regard to the connec lon of Mann with tim crime and ho replied that tie had told tIle truth and could do nothing more In a recent Interview Samnet declared his DMoeoncc of the murder of Christopher Spuh Icr He said that ho did not know anything of he murder until Informed of It by the oflleer Tho arrested him He talil that he was willing to die If necessary and that while there was no use of making any Insg about it ho would die nn Innocent man lie spoke very bitterly of some of those who testified against him on the stand claiming that thuy had perjured them selves to convict him Any one familiar with the case knows tlmt he was convicted upon iliuudaiit and overwhelming testimony Tho plea of Insanity bet up by his friends In their efforts to sceuro a commutation did not seem to hum any morn basis than tho young mans declaration of innocence Since they have boon lu jail here hundreds of people visited them dally Ono day two thou sand persons entered tlio jail Among these were many ladies especially young ladles Mann Is a Uoinan Catholic ami he being tho most youth ful his lloman Catholic friends exerted their nlluence for ExucutUo clemency The dough ten of Judge Myers who sentenced all the boys hiss been vervactive In behnlfoIMnnn Hammet Is nlso a Catholic His relatives In Stark County aborod hard for him Ohr Is of Protestant tilth having been brought up a Lutheran When tile ProteMants saw the Catholic Influ ence exerted they declared Ohm should be caved and tile attnlr assumed the aspect of a religious rivalry Protestant as Catholic A months reprieve was granted by Qov Foster and thin strotigeet pressure brought to bear for n tuirdon Judge Mi ems daughter went to Columbus ugnln as did other friends Includ log the aged aunt of Mann and the bars had hot1 of clemency The scaffold was In readiness before the Gov ernors reprieve one month ago It stood In the south corridor of the jail which is about six lent wide and thirty long and was so ar ranged that the three boys dropped from one trap at the same Instant Tim roar wall of theIr cells had been remold anti through It the culprits walked to tholr death The boys ate hlcartily i this mummer and manifested courage Mann In parting with lila aged grandmother who had been with him for some time broke down but rallied again Thu execution ac cording to tho law ul the State was private So farewell Bpeeohea were made exceptUammot and Ohr said Goodby to thoae of thin HIicrlfTs attendants they knew and Mann cried out God bless iny poor grandmother I Death was almost Instantaneous and without apparent pain The boillis were allowed to hang thirty minutes No disorder occurred although then was n vast number of people oiusldu the jail None of the murderers bad reached 21 years of age A nuKk ituuglng wits advertised to come off nt tho fair grounds last Saturday the projector of Ibis spectacle having had the gallows erected the ropes adjusted and everything In readiness for tIle counterfeit presentment of a triple hanging HU plan was to have three boys mount tue scaffold with their arms and legs tied Tholr death warrants wore to bo road prayers uttered anti the heartrending scones of the gnllows enacted when lot away over nt thin outskirts of tho largo crowd which was ex pected to gather at twontyIlvo Cents a head n cry would bo hoard and a mewngor canto rushing forward Saved 1 sa oill I would ho the cry and thu commutation which was to ar rlvn mst In the nick of time was to send the crowd homo happy and confident that full VtllilO hiatt ngion for thiqmirtor But tills scheme was foiled Several Indignant Cinton Inns broke Into Cite fair grounds on Friday nael I tier anti demolished the gallows thus put C ting nn end to the proposed hanging for fun hail the mock show not boon Interfered with in tlilsmnnnoilt WiiS the Intention I of thu author ities to suppress It on some pietcxt of law
