The Ely Miner

NEAR A LYNCHING IN OHIO,
Marietta Crowd Menaces Men Arrested for Drugging Little Girls.

Marietta, O., March 4.—A lynching seemed imminent here early Sunday evening when a large crowd of people surrounded the city jail, where Walter W. Savage, of Syracuse, N. Y., and his accomplice, Andy Coruthers, were imprisoned.

Savage is an advertising sketch artist and has been here about a week occupying a window in the Dime Savings society building. He has made a specialty of getting young girls to allow him to make their pictures.

About one o'clock Sunday afternoon he had six young girls between the ages of 12 and 14 years of age in his room, gave them whisky, wine and beer and administered some kind of drug. At six o'clock Sunday evening the police discovered that something was wrong and, upon investigating, found all six of the girls unconscious, lying on the floor. The girls and the two men, Coruthers having been found in the room, were taken to the city jail. Physicians were summoned and made an examination of the girls and administered emetics, and about seven o'clock they had partly regained consciousness. The girls claim that the men forced them to drink.

Under guard of the entire police force the men were rushed to the county jail, which is on the fifth floor of the courthouse building. The sheriff and his deputies, assisted by the police, are guarding the two prisoners, and it seems that a lynching will be averted, although the feeling of the populace is very intense.