The men accused in the attack were released on bail. The elder Mr. Mullet has not been charged, although he remains under investigation. “I know that nothing moves out there unless he says it moves,” said Fred J. Abdalla, the sheriff of Jefferson County.

Federal prosecutors are considering whether to pursue federal hate-crime charges, according to the Cleveland office of the F.B.I.

The prosecutions are unusual because the Amish do not believe in revenge and prefer to settle disputes internally. The couple in Mesopotamia, Barbara and Martin Miller, have refused to testify, telling officers that they will “turn the other cheek.”

But others are cooperating with law enforcement.

“We want to see these people behind bars so this cult can be torn apart before it ends up like most of them do,” said Myron Miller, who lives in Mechanicstown. Many Amish regard Mr. Mullet as a danger to the wider community and above all to the 120 people in the settlement, including dozens of children growing up under his sway.

Mr. Miller now has a trimmed two-inch beard. He and his wife believe that the attack was retribution because, years ago, they helped one of Mr. Mullet’s sons leave Bergholz.

Mr. Mullet, through the front door of his large white house at the center of his Bergholz settlement, refused to speak a reporter last week and ordered him off the property.

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In an earlier interview with The Associated Press, Mr. Mullet said that the recent attacks resulted from “religious differences,” and that he had not ordered the attacks, though he had known that they were taking place.