The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-10

room ana cell rooms was broken 0OWH
the military fired on the mob at that
and member of the mob, was
shot and killed. This seemed to break the
spirit of the mob, though they did not re-
tire hastily. A number of brickhatS were
thrown by them at the soldiers and po-
lice, but generally there was not much
bitterness of feeling displayed on eithee
side. The great superiority of the de-
tenders of the Jail over the unarmed and
impromptu mob was so manifest when the
former opened fire that it would
have been utter folly to make any further
effort. Some twenty-five or thirty men
were arrested in Jail. The jailer'S resi-
dence in the JAIL which was entered by
portion of the mob, was rudely handled,
the windows broken and furniture
smashed. From this a number of men
made their way into the kitchen and
thence to the lower corridor. After the
apparent REIMBURSEMENT of the main eff
fort to get at the prisoners the mob lin
gered outside, throwing stones and brick
bats at the windows.
las A. M.-News Just comes from the
jail that the mob is not defeated yet.
They have broken into the armOry of
the Veteran Regiment and taken the
guns More firing has been done at the
Jail. The mob is now looking for ammu-
d
The mob broke into the National Guard
armory, took out about 1000 mJskets,
formed three abreast and marched to the
Jail. They shot away all their ammuni-
and then marched down Main street and
broke open Kittredge's gun store, which
they rified, taking everything they could
lay their hands on in the shape of arms
and ammunition.
Nat this hour the nuE1ber of
n 10 n
They are swearing they will yet get in
and hang all the murdercrs inside. They
have procured a barrel of coal oil and
poured it over the Sheriff's office, swear
ing they would yet burn down the build
ing, and some are meditating an attack
on the gun stores for arms. The militia
andapolice are all on tie inside awaiting
developments.
The mob fired OF the soldiers when the
latter came up from the cellar. The
murderers in the cells were scared nearly
to death. Johnson, the black bUrker, was
nearly white.
The First Regiments armory has been
guarded for three nights in anticipation
of this affair, but the Veteran regiment,
of which Sheriff Hawkins is Colonel, did
not take the same precautiOn.
2;I5 A. M.-Newton Cobb, of Man
chester, o., was shot in the shoulder by
was a by-stander on the sidewalk. The
crowd claim soldiers are firing un-
necessarily upon the outsiders merely
looking on. On the other hand the
soldiers dread an effort to burn the
place or blow it up by rolling coal oil
barrels into the basement and justify
themselves in clearing the sidewalks on
that account. 1t is said that number of
women spectators have been hurt with
frin nf
heard at intervals.
2:3O A. M.-The firing by soldiers from
the windows has been terribly destruct-
i've. The following wounded have been
gathered into the drugstore at Court and
Walnut streets and at the hotel near:
James Green, dying.
Walter Fay, dying
James Turk, mOrtally wounded.
F. Soehn, bad wound in thigh.
Ed DuIeff, shot in the legs.
These were all bystanders, and there IS
a growing bitter feeling against the
soldiers.
The mob has taken all the arms they
want from Kittredge's store, including 4
small cannon.
CINCINNATT. o., March %.
Berner was sentenced to twenty years
in the Penitentiary, the full limit
of the law. 1t appears that after
the sentence he was disguised and placed
in buggy with Deputy Sheriff
Dominick Devote and driven to LinwOod,
where they got aboard the Morrow ac-
commodation and went TO LOveland
to await the arrival of Criminal
Deputy Joe Moses with the neces-
sary papers for commttaI to the Peni-
! tentiary. 1t became known that Berner
was at Loveland and a crowd gathered.
| When the train with Moses aboard came
in and Devote and Berner went to board
it the crowd made a rush for Berner. He
ran through car and escaped, and is
| still at large.
Berner, when he escaped from
the mob, rushed through the Ia
dies car, knocking a woman down. 4
man shouted 'Train rObbcrl Shoot
| hint" Four revolvers were drawn but
none fred as he was so quickly out of the
car. He jumped off, and was seen by a
woman to run to the river bank, where
/ he passed out of sight and has not since
/ been heard from. The people blame
! Deputy Sheriff Devote for carelessness
! in going about with Berner with no
/ handouts.