From Cincinnati Sentenced for Preventing Colored Men from Voting
and Fraud in the Government

Daily Milwaukee News, 24 Nov. 1870

Cincinnati, Nov. 23 – Lewis and Henry Carter, of Lawrence County, Ohio, father and son, were tried in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Leavett, on a charge of preventing colored men from voting. This is the first trial had under the Law of Congress of May, last.

Lewis Carter appeared to use violent threats against colored men offering to vote. The jury found him guilty, recommended him to the court’s mercy, and acquitted his son. He was sentenced to one month in the jail of Lawrence County and a fine of five dollars.

William M. Mitchell, who pleaded guilty to affixing counterfeit stamps to caddies of tobacco, was fined four thousand dollars and costs.

(Note: This story was paraphrased by Grammarly)

— Another story of the Canter Family–

IR Oct. 19, 1854

Murder.

On Friday the 13th inst., about sundown, a row took place at the house of Widow Canter, some two miles from Monroe Furnace, Jackson Co., between some Irishmen and Perry Price, Wm. Canter and Levi Canter – all intoxicated.

Wm. Mack, an Irishman, stabbed and killed Levi Canter.  Price then knocked Mack down with a grubbing hoe and Wm. Canter stabbed and killed Mack.

The parties then fled, leaving the two dead men with the women, who did not give information about the affair until about the middle of the next day.  All due efforts were made to arrest Price and Canter, but without success at our last accounts.  A daughter of the Widow Canter worked out to obtain the money with which a half barrel of whisky was bought and was being sold out to these men.