LYNCH LAW IN AMERICA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2496, 6 April 1882, Page 4

LYNCH LAW IN AMERICA.

A most exciting incident i* reported in the American papers. A murder took place somewhere in Kentucky, and tho mob showed signs of taking the law in their own hands. Getting wind of thi* tho authorities determined to sand the murderers to Marysville for safe keeping, but the lyncher* took a steamer and wont in pursuit. , So much interest was excited in the chase that tho bulletins, as they may be called, wore telegraphed from every station on the route, and a vivid description of the varying incidents of tho hue and cry is thus afforded. One of the earliest ones significantly says :—“ It is thought the prisoners may reach Marysville j" another, “The prisoners reached here at 2 p.m.; the mob are understood to be trying to head off the murderers at Portsmouth or the nearest point below,” and so on. Finally the last econo is told in a despatch from a place called Yanoeburg:—The steamer Mountain Boy arrived here at halfpast two this afternoon with the Ashland fiends on board, expecting to reach their destination, the Marysville Gaol, about midnight. Word was received that a train loaded with lynchers bad started from Ashland, and was expected at any time. Fearing the mob, the Mountain Girl, whioh was lying at tho wharf, was chartered to convey the prisoners to Marysville. While the Girl was raising steam, a train from Ashland rolled in with about 500 determined Regulators on board. The sheriff, with a party of ton guards, by an adroit movement removed the prisoners from the gaol to the wharf; but as soon as the crowd saw the prisoners they started down the bank with loud yells of indignation, gathering arms and missiles ready for an ascault. Tho sheriff, seeing the mob descending, tho Girl not having steam up, boarded the ferry-boat with his party, and ran down the stream. The mob crowded on the Girl, cut her loose, and commenced a determined chase. The Girl, not haring sufficient steam, soon fell behind ; but in a short time she got into shapo, and commenced gaining rapidly on tho slow ferry, and in a short time approached bo closely that a capture seemed imminent. But, fortunotely for the fiends, tho Mountain Boy was a faster vessel than tho Girl, and approached the scone on hor regular trip up from Ashland to Louisa. She waa hailed by the sheriff, pressed service, and the party rapidly transferred to her. Whan the transfer had been successfully made, the Girl, black with an excited, raging, and howling mob, was right on their heels, and the chase was resumed ; but the Boy, dying light; soon distanced her. Near Ashland, the Hudson, with the Kentucky militia, was met in mid-stream, and Captain A. 0. Bespaso, of the Mason County Guards, and twenty .five men were transferred to the Boy, and took charge of the prisoners. The pursuing vessel was still in eight, but when they learned that the militia had arrived the chase was abandoned. During the chase the Boy cleared twelve milts an hour under a high pressure.