This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...There was great excitement and in a short time numbers of students and towns-people started for Wellington in buggies, spring wagons, hay wagons and any old rig they could get. Some of these were borrowed for the occasion, without the formality of consulting the owners. The speed limit, as fixed by custom, was exceeded ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...There was great excitement and in a short time numbers of students and towns-people started for Wellington in buggies, spring wagons, hay wagons and any old rig they could get. Some of these were borrowed for the occasion, without the formality of consulting the owners. The speed limit, as fixed by custom, was exceeded by almost every outfit. One man said he made the distance in three quarters of an hour, another testified that his party made it in 40 minutes. Simeon Bushnell, who started late, because he wanted "a good rig and a man with a gun," passed nearly everybody on the road. As no tickets were sold, it is impossible to tell how many went down to Wellington on this excursion, but there were some 50 or 60 in all. They had no organization and no leader. Many went from mere curiosity and Mr. Wack went to get Jennings to give him a good ten dollar bill for one which Jennings had paid him, and which the bank said was counterfeit. There were perhaps 20 guns in the crowd, very few of which were loaded. The first thought of those who were in earnest was, they must prevent the kidnappers--for that is what all believed the Southerners to be--from taking the afternoon train South, and so they surrounded the Wads worth House,2 the hotel to which the captors had taken John, and blocked the doors and every avenue of escape. It was doubtful even then if they could have effected their purpose, except for a fortuitous circumstance which added greatly to their apparent numbers. A building in Wellington near the hotel took fire that morning and rumor spread by telegraph and otherwise that the town was burning up. People came in from Grafton, La Grange, Rochester and New London, on the railroad, and from the surrounding country in buggies to see the fire, and ...
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