The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-29
MOB LAW.

VA0 jail
Several Men Killed AM
Wounded.
CINCINNATI, o., March 23.-TeI
thousand people gathered In Music
Hall in response to q call by reputa
BILE citizens to take action on the
Berner verdict. Many couldn't get In
Strong resolutions were adopted con-
demning the verdict, and a commit.
tee on resolutions appointed. Upon
the adjournment the vast crow
moved directly to the Jail, where
they attacked the front door. Al
$40 the riot alarm was sounded
summoning the entire police force
to the jail. Vast crowds of people
are gathering in that vicinity. Ber-
ner was removed. Sentence Was
passed this afternoon, and he is now
on his way to Columbus, but if the
mob gets In the Jail the other MUIR
derers will be lvnched. The Police
upon arriving In the vicinity of the
jail commanded the crowd to move.
and not being obeyed they fred, tut
as no one vas hurt it is presumed the
police fired in the air. 1t Is said that
this was the intention of the police,
they being deeply in sympathy with
the movement IN condemning the
outrageous Berner verdict. A shot
or two was fired from the jail, but
the crowd refuses to move. They
have a good leader, aud are still Il p.
m, at work at the Jail door.
The meeting in Music Hall was
presided over by DR.. A. G. Kemper,
who made y conservative speech to-
day from the topic. 1.-THE Prevalence
of Crime Throughout the Whole
Country" he then spoke Of the
special prevalence of the crime OF
murder in this country, and the ne
cessity Of more certainty in the ad-
ministrati0n of punishment for
crimes. His remarks were not in
tended to awake the mob's spirits.
but when the meeting adjourned the
people, by common impulse, moved
to Twelfth street to the Jail.
At IL p. m. the report from the Jail
is that the crowd has got inside Of
the Jail. They broke in
to q blacksmith shop and
and took all the tools they could
find. There is difficulty in getting
Information about the movement. be.
cause the streets all around the court
aud Jail are jammed.
ii p. m.--There is q great crowd Of
men inside the Jail, but they have
not yet reached the ce!I-room. They
are we'll supplied with too 5 and are
1T work OH the door. It was possible
they would have to 20 through a
stone wall. which would be easy.
There IL apparently nc resistance to
mob. No violence has been offered
to prisoners by the mob, except that
Adam Maegly, n Of the policeman
In the patrol wagon, was struck with
brick and slightly hurt.
1870 p. m.-The FIRST Regiment
Ohio Guards has just entered the
Jail, having marched through the
drst entrance of the court house.
thence through y tunnel into the
Jail, where the mob is thronging. 1t
now remains to be e whether the
will do anything to Illustrate
the purpose of the mob. The police
inside the Jail arrested some Of the
first members of the mob that entered
cut this became impracticabls and
tbe police refrained from using their
It now now appears that
lnrrnp aff0N 1.oin~ cnntSn0nI vx-nS
disguised and placed in a buggy with
Sheriff Dominick Devato and
driven to Lenwood, where they got
aboard the Marrow accommodation
rain and went to LOveland to await
The arrival of Deputy Joe Moses with
he neces sary papers O rc.mInittal to
he penitentiary. When IT, became
Known that Berner Was LovelaDd,
he crowd gathered. When the train
Moses aboard "a l4e !n, and De-
vatO and Berner Went TO board il,
he crowd made d rush for Rerner,
)ut he ran through tie car and es-
and is still al large.
Midnight. - About thirty shots
mnskets We're hreI iur .i,e pur-
OF sca,lDg the moo. The result
vas that glancing balls struck at
east four persons, intlic,ing injuries
which may be fatal in M or two
Pc iceman Mum and Private
look are the worst hurt, the latter
,eing shot in the breast. The vol
ey seems to have checked the move
Of the mob, though the crowd
las not yet dispersed from about ,he
all.
1880 \. m.-The Jail has been ireG
y the mob and the crowd on tue
say they will cut the hose to
prevent the fire department from ex
in uishing it. The mob seem TO
hink a wholesale hoiocau"t ss the
means Of accomplishing their
.urpose. Fire engines responded to
he alarm, and after much difficulty
Il reaching the scene found the-
larm false. 1t was occasioned by Il
being built ear the Jail, and
s the building is mainly Of stone
nd iron 1t would % difficult to burn
down.
3 D.. m.--Loud reports from the
icinlty of the Jail indicate that the
nob is firing cannon or that barrels
f coal oil are being exploded. These !
7ere rolled into the lower part Of the
Ill some time ago. The mob has
rganized and marched up Main
treet just now with fife and drum.
he firing still continues and there
re- prospects Of a bloody battle.
3:l5 a. m.--Flring OF cannon was
ndu!ged in by the mob and about
0 leaders, thirsting for revenge. 1t
oes not appear they have produced
Elf ct. The police have full cou-
and the greater portion Of the
lob is dispersed. 1t is thought now
FORK for the night Is over. Joseph
tein, a member of the patrol wagon,
as shot, ard Is dead.
What John Bright Says.
PROVIDENCE, March %. - John
fright WAS Informed Of the intention
place a marble bust of him in the