Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-04-03
RIOTING IN CINCIN
NATI.
OVER TWO HUNDRED KILLED
AND WOUNDED.

CINCINNATI, March 29.--Ten thOus-
and people gathered at Music Hall last
night, in response to call by reputable
citizens, to take action on the Berner
verdict. The meeting was presided over
by DIR. A. d. Kemper, who made con-
servative speech, taking for his topic the
prevalence of crime throughout the
whole country. He then spoke of the
special prevalence of the crime of MUIR
der in this county, and the necessity of
more certainty in the administration of
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 boldly in that
direction.
The riot alarm was sounded, summon
ing the entire police force to the jail
The police, upon arriving in the vicinity
of the jail, commanded the crowd to
move, and not being obeyed they fired;
but as no one was hurt, it was presumed
that the police fired in the air. 1t is
said this was the intention of the police,
they being deeply in sympathy with the
movement to condemn the outrageous
Berner verdict. A shot or two was fired
from the Jail, but the crowd refused to
move.
AT IL D. m. some of the crowd had
cot inside of the jail They had pre-
yiously broken into blacksmith shop
and taken what tools they could find.
There was apparently no resistance to
the mob, and on the other hand, no
violence has been offered to persons by
the mob, except that Adam Naighly,
one of the policemen in patrol wagon,
was struck with a brick and slightly
hurt. This act was condemned by the
mob.
The militia was called out and at
u:3Op. m. the First Regiment, o. n.
e., entered the Jail, having marched
through the front entrance of the Court
House, and thence through u tunnel
into the iail, where the mob was thrOng-
ing. The police inside the Jail arrested
some of the first members of the mob
that entered, but this soon became inn
practicable, and the police refrained
from using pistols. About thirty shots
with muskets were fired by the militia
for the purpose of soaring the mob.
The result was that the glancing balls
struck at least four persons intiicting
injuries which may be fatal in the case
of one or two. Policeman Num- and
Private Cook are the worst hurt, the
latter being shot in the breast. The vol
lev checked the movement, though the
crowds did not disperse from about the
Jail. When the inner door, between the
reception room and the cell rooms, was
broken down, the military fired on the
mob at that place, and Lew 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 entirely. A number of brick
bats were thrown by them at the sol
diers and police, but generally there
was not much bitterness of feeling dis
played on either side. The greatly SUI
perior strength of the defenders of the
! iail over the .unarmed and impromptu
mob was SO manifest when the former
opened fire that it would have been ut
ter folly to make any further effort.
Some twenty-five or thirty men were
arrested in the Jail. The jailers resi-
dence in the Jail, which was entered by
the mob, was rudely handled, windows
being broken and furniture smashed.
From this number of men made their
way into the kitchen, and thence to the
lower corridor After REIMBURSEMENT