The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-31

CoIUMBUs. March 29-Tho train men and
passengers, who arrived here after midnight,
give the following account Of the mob at Love
land and Morrow, and the effort to -.r Rorner
the murderer to Colun..3~cs: The two deputies,
with 8erner. drove from Cincinnati over to
Linwood, and there took the accommodation for
Loveland This part of the Journey was made
without accident. Joe Moses was then to go to
the Little Afrnni depot and quietly board the
train for Columbus, and join the two deputies
and Bemer at Loyeland When the Little
Elismi train pulled into Loveland, BeIner was
placed III the car next to the sleeper. before the
train had come to a full stop. The deputies sat
near him. buS did not have him fastened to
them Joe Moses sat in the next car in
advance As the train came to stop
a bowling mob of nearly 300 men made dash
for the cars, yelling, There he is-catch him"
Some men were masked while part Of them we're
not. They climbed in all the cars, but most OF
them broke for the one in which Moses was
seated One of the deputies, who had been de-
tailed to watch Berner, sprang from his seat and
started for the front end of the car. The crowd
thought it Berner trying to escape and
bouncing on him bore him to the ground He
was choked beaten and almost killed before the
mistake was discovered Berner had sprung
from his seat, but in attempting to jump from
the platform he fell headlong to the ground. IL
crowd from recognizing him. The train boy,
who was standing on the platform
at the time, says that Berner
walked around the car and entered again
from the rear. Meantime the wild mob had dis
covered their mistake and were even more IN
furiated than before Berner walked about two
thirds of the way through the car, when one Of
the deputies, who had seen him jump from the
train, cried 'There he goes, now catch him
Immediately Berner started on a run and again
jumped from the train, which, by this time had
started to pull out from the station One of the
deputies ran after him, while the one who had
been mistaken for Belner was then held by the
crowd Joe Moses and a third deputy remained
on the train
When the first section of the train, the
one that had been attacked at Loveland,
pulled into Morrow, another mob was
awaiting to capture the prisoner. The
mob was composed of $50 or 200 men, only
a part of whom were masked. Before the
train stopped they climbed on the engine, and
into the cars and on the steps, eager to get pos
session of the murderer. Some OF the men at
tempted to force the engineer to stop the train
before it got into the town, in order that they
could SWING Berner from a bridge near by
They hunted through the passenger, baggage
and sleeping cars, completing their search Just
as the train pulled away from the town. Moses
and his deputy got off here and were so excited
that they could hardly speak.
The second section of the Little Miami, which
starts from Cincinnati almost fifteen
minutes after the first, witnessed almost
the same scenes that had been enacted
before. At Loveland the wild mob was still
yelling and searching for Berner. Many men
rushed upon the train. thinking that perhaps an
attempt would be made to smuggle him through
AS the train pulled out cries were heard, saying
that the search would be continued until day
light, when the fugitive would easily be recog-
nized. At Morrow the mob was at the depot
waiting for the second section, and when it
rived the same frenzied effort was made to dis
cover the object of their search. In spite of the
excitement and attempts to delay and search
the trains both came in on time Passengers
and train men on the second section gave the
same thrilling accounts that were given before,
and stated that the excitement was increasing.