The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-01
A Proposal to Withdraw the Troops
and Enroll a Large Force Of Police.
Views As To the Best Method of Dealing
with Notes.-The Criminal Lawyers
MethOdS-SceneS and Incidents.
DISPERSAL OF THE MOB.
The sOldiery and Police in Full Possession,
and Everything Quiet.

and Everything Quiet.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CINcINNAT1 March 31.-The city is again in a
state of comparative quiet, after the excitement
and turbulence of the past sixty hours The
militia are still carefully guarding the jail and
public buildings, and the police are using pre-
cautionary measures to prevent the gathering of
crowds, but the spirit of destruction seems to
have subsidized. There is no anticipation of an
other serious outbreak, for a majority of the
leading members of the mob are in custody, and
the remainder are dsorganzed and dis
eouraged In fact, there has never been
any definite organization among them.
vented them from carrying out their plans.
After the indignation meeting on Friday night
they started out with the intention of hanging
Berner and probably the other murderers in the
Jail When they were frustrated in this they
were ready to do anything in the way of murder
or destruction of property, and this spirit of
lawlessness was partly the result Of the preva
lent excitement, and more the effect of whisky
The opinion is freely expressed here that the
authorities should have acted on the aggressive
from the start and not the rioters. At no time
since the riot began were there more than $50
or 300 of them, and a majority of them
were young and boys. The leaders could
and should have been arrested in the start, and
then the bloody scenes of Saturday night and
Sunday would not have been enacted But the
authorities were content to defend the JAIL
while the mob burned the Court house and shot
down innocent spectators. All last night forty
or fifty of them were behind the barracade on
Court street, and hidden in neighboring alleys
and yards, keeping up persistent firing in the
direction of the jail, and several persons were
movement on the part of .he
police or one of the military companies rould
have resulted in IL ure of these men with
out any great difficult nd thus put summary
end to the trouble Put they were allowed to
continue their guerrilla warfare until nearly day
light, while the militia an occasional volley
down Court street to prevel 4 e approach of the
insurgents 1t was only after the destruction
of the Courthouse on Saturday night, when
people began to realize that hey might suffer
individual loss, that the citizens really began to
appreciate the gravity OF Lhe situation, and were
ready to resort to heroic measures to prevent
a continuance of the rioting In fact pub
lie sentiment and sympathy has been with the
mob, to a certain extent and they have felt en-
couraged in their lawlessness Since Saturday
night, however, they must have realized that
they could not succeed in breaking into the Jail
and hanging the murderers, as was their first
purpose, and their intention was then diverted
gest itself There were numerous thieves
among them, as was shown by the fact that
purpose of securing arms, many valuables, such
as iewel1y and silverware, were taken and found
i'll possession of those who were arrested.
Last night and to-day the approaches to the
Jail have been protected by barricade of boxes.
barrels and planks, behind which the militia
keep guard. Immediately surrouding the Jail
are 500 or6OOsoldier provided with guns cannon
and plenty of ammunition. The latter was
brought from various parts Of the city in the
police patrol wagons, and one Of the surest signs
that the backbone of the mob is broken is that