Show 1 The MoTli Stood Off Vamvert O Nov 5 Charles Hart aged IS hire bedn arrested charged with the murder of two children of a farmer near Paulding 0 whose mutilated mu-tilated bodies were found today Hart is in jail here and it is reported that < 1 t > J from 300 to 500 men are organizing to take him from jail and hang him As soon as Hart was taken to the Paulding jail a mob of 300 to 500 men organized to hang the prisoner at once but were dissuaded on pleas that the chances were largely in favor of the boys innocence and that the guilty party par-ty was still at large As it was evident this argument would hold the crowd off only until night came on the sheriff watched his opportunity to spirit the prisoner away to the jail at this place a distance of thirty miles It is currently reported tonight that the mob is coming from Paulding into Vanwert county in such numbers that it cannot be resisted by the authorities here |