The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
A CINCINNATI MOB.

In Mass Meeting and a Mob to Lynch
the Murderer-The Militia Called Out
and Fire Upon the Crowd Fatally Wound
ing Several.
CINCINNATI, March 2s.-Ten thousand
people gathered at the Music Hall, in re-
Spouse to a call by reputable citizens, to
take action on the Bemer verdict. Many
could not get in. Strong resolutions were
| adopted condemning the verdict, and COM
mittee on legislation appointed. Upon adj
| journment vast crowd moved directly to
the Jail, where they began an attack on the
| front door. At $40 a riot alarm was
sounded, summoning the entire police force
| to the Jail. Vast crowds of people gathered
| in that vicinity. Berner was removed
| after his sentence this afternoon, and
is now on his way to Columbus, but if
| lynched. The police upon arriving in the
vicinity of the Jail commanded the crowd to
move. Not being obeyed, they fired, but as
no one was hurt it was presumed the police
fired in the air. 1t is said that was the
intention of the police, they being deeply in
sympathy with the movement to condemn the
outrageous Berner verdict \ shot or two
was fired from the jail, but the crowd re-
| fused to move. The meeting at Music Hall
was presided over by DR.. A. c. Kemper,
who made conservative speech, taking for
| his topic the prevalence of crime throughout
| the whole country He then spoke of the
| PREVALENCE OF THE CRIME
of murder in this country, and the necessity
/ of mn aarf1intX- the administration nf
| punishment for crime. His remarks were
not intended to awaken a mob spirit, but
when the meeting adjourned the people by
common impulse moved down TO Twelfth
street, where shouts began to be uttered, TO
| the Jail, and the crowd then moved bodily
in that direction. At eleven p. m. the re-
port from the Jail was that the crowd had
| got inside. They had previously broken
| into a blacksmith shop and had taken
all the tools they could find. There is diff
Guilty in getting information about their
| movements because the streets all around
the court house and Jail are damned. A
reporter of the Associated Press says that
at eleven o'clock from the stone wall of the
| Jail yard he saw great crowds Of men inside
the Jail, but they had not yet reached the
cell room. They were well supplied with
tools, and were at work at the doors. 1t
was possible they would have to go through
stone wall, which would be easy.
There is apparently no resistance to
the mob, and, on the other hand,
no violence has been offered to persons
byi the mob, except that Adam Nfaegley,
one of the policemen in patrol wagon, was
struck with brick and slightly hurt. This
act was condemned by the mob, and now the
patrol wagons are standing in front of the
Jail, surrounded by people. The militia has
been ordered out, but large numbers failed
to appear, and there is a general disposition,
so far as can be seen, not to interfere with
| the mob. Nothing as yet has been heard
! from Sheriff Hawkins, who is inside of the
Court House and cannot be reached. Mayor
Stephens is confined to his house by sick
ness, leaving the Sheriff wholly responsible
for the preservation of order, except for the
assistance of the Chief of Police.
THE MILITIA CALLED OUT.
II :3O-The First Regiment Ohio National
Guard have just entered the jail, having
been marched through the front entrance of
the Court House, thence through the tunnel
into the Jail, where the mob is thronging.
1t now remains to be seen whether the
militia will do anything to Illustrate the pur-
pose of the mob. The police inside the Jail
arrested some of the first members of the
mob that entered, but this soon became i'm
practicable and the police refrained from
using their pistols. 1t now appears that
Berner, after sentence, was disguised
and placed in buggy with
DEPUTY Sheriff DOminick VevotO, and
driven to LinwOod where they got aboard
the narrow accommodation and went to
Loveland to await the arrival of criminal
deputy, Joe Moses, with necessary papers
for cOmmittal to the penitentiary. 1t be-
came known that Berner was at LOveland
and a crowd gathered. When the train with
Moses aboard came in and VevOto and
Berner went to get aboard it the crowd made
a rush for Berner. He ran through the car
and escaped and is still at large.
FIRED on By TIE MILITIA.
Mdnight-AbOut thirty shots with musk
cts were fired by the militia for the purpose
Of soaring the mob. The result was glanc-
ing balls struck at least four persons, in
flicting injuries which may be fatal in the
case of one or two. Policeman Num- and
Private Cook are the worst hurt. The latter
was shot in the breast. The vOlley seems to
have checked the movement of the mob,
though the crowds have not yet dispersed
from about the jail There does not seem
to be any doubt that these wounds were in
flicted by the guns of the soldiers. The
mob made no effort to shoot, so far as is
known.
When the iron door between the reception
room and cell rooms were broken down. the
military fired OH the mob at that place, and
VIM. Kent, a labOrer and member of the mob,
was shot and killed. This seemed to break the
spirit of the mob. though they did not retire
hastily. A number Of brickbatS wore thrown
by them at the soldiers and police, but
generally there was not much bitter
ness of feeling displayed on either
side The greatly superior strength of the
defenders of the Jail over the unarmed and
imprOmptu mob was so manifest when the
former opened the fire that it would have
been utter folly TO make any further
effort. Some twenty-five men were ar
rested and are in Jail. The jailers resi- |
dence in the jail. which was entered by a
portion Of the mob. was roughly handled, |
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 REIMBURSEMENT of the |
main effort to get at the prisoner, the mob
fingered outside throwing stones and brick !
bats at the windows.
2:15 a. m.-NewtOn Cobb of Manchester, |
o. was shot in the shoulder by a soldier |
through the Jail window. Cobb was a
bystander on the sidewalk.
The following wounded have been gath |
cred into the drug store at Court and Wal |
nut streets, and at hotel near:
James Green, dying.
Walter Fay, dying.
James Turk. mOrtally wounded.
T, SOehner, bad wound in the thigh.
Ed Dullef, shot in the legs