Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-29
AN ANGRY POPULACE.
a mou or 10000 sunnouso A JAIL.
Cineinnsu tue scene of . oreat uprising
Caused by q Recent rsiiure of jus
tee ConvictF iu Danger

tee -Convictg In Danger.
Ten thousand persons gathered at Music
hall, Cincinnati, IN response to call by
reputable citizens to take action on the
Bcrner verdict Many could not get
ins,1o the building. Strong resolutions
weIe adopted oondemning the verdict, and
a committee on legislation was appointed.
Upon adjournment the vast crowd moved
directly to the Jail, where they began an
attack on the front door. At 9:40 p. IN.
the riot alarm was sounded, summouiug
the entire police to the Jail, vast crowds OF
people gathering in that vicinity. Berner
was removed after his sentence Friday
afternoon, aud is now on his way to Col
umbus, but IL the mob succeeds in getting
into the Jail other murderors will be
| lynched.
| The police, upon arriving in the vicinity
of the jail, commanded the crowd to move
| on, and, not being obcycd, fired, but as no
| one was hurt IL was presumed they fired
| ia the air Ii is said that that was the in
ten ton Of the police, they being deeply in
sympathy with tho movement to condemn
the outrageous Berner verdict.
A shot or two had been fired from the
I Jail, but the crowd refused to move. They
have good leader and are still (tcn
o'clock) at work at the Jail door.
|
over by DIR. \. &. Kemper, who made a
conservative speech, taking for his topic
the prevalence of crime throughout the
whole country. lie spoke of special
prevalence OF the crime of murder in that
| county, aud the necessity for more certain
| ty IN the administration OF punishment
for crime.
His remarks were not intended TO
| awaken q mob spirit, but when the meet.
ing adjourned the people, by a common
| impulse, moved down Twelfth street,
where shouts began TO be uttered of "TO
the Jail - and the crowd then moved
bodily in that direction. Large numbers
Of the militia failed to appear, and there
is general disposition, 50 far as can be
seen, not to interfere with the mob.
Nothing has yet been heard fiom Sheriff
| Hawkins, who is inside the court house
and cannot be reached. Mayor Stephens
is confined to his house by sickness,
leaving the sheriff wholly responsible
| for the preservation of order, except for
assistance from the chief of police.
At IL 80 p. m. tue First Ohio regiment
national guards. entered the JAIL having
boon marched through the front entrance
of the court house and thence through the
tunnel into the Jail, where the mob was
throngiDg. IL now remains TO BE- seen
whether the militia will do auythIus 70
Illustrate the purpose of the mob.
The police inside the Jail arrested some
of the first members Of the mob that ,n.
tered, but this soon became impracticable
and the police refrained from using their
pistols.
At midnight about thirty shots with
muskets were fired by the militia for the
purpose of soaring tho mob. The result
was that glanciug balls struck at least
four persons, intIctiug injuries which may
be fatal in the case Of one or two rioters.
\ policeman named Num- and a private
uamei Cook are the worst hurt.
At 1915 in the morning the Jail was fred
| by the mob aud the crowd on the streets
say they will cut the hose and prevent the
| tire department from eXtingushing it
| The mob seem TO think wholesale holO-
oaust the only means Of accomplishing
their purpose.
Cause OF the Trouble.
On Monday last the jury in the case of
| William BeIner, on trial Tor the murder
| OF VIM. ii. Kirk, brought in verdict OF
| guilty of mansllughter instead of murder
| 10 the first degree, as demanded by the
state. The evidence showed that
| Kirk was killed IN his own stable
| by blow from hammer and robbed
of about 3lOO; that his body was
placed in a wagon. hauled of towards
Cummingsyille and dumped into a mill
| stream, where it was found two days later.
| Suspicion pointing 10 two colored men,
Joe Palmer aud William Berner, they
were arrested. They confessed their
guilt, BeTner on the trial stating that
Palmer tuck the fatal blow while he
looked ON, but that he received his share
OF the money aud aided in the disposal Of
the body. William Beraer was quietly
| brought before Judge Matthews at two
O'Clock in the afternoon and sentenced to
the peutentIary for tweaty years, the full
limit Of the law, and then sent to Colum-
| bus.
Judge johnson Jas imposed tiue oi
$50 upon Henry Meyers, the juror who
went to plaintiff in case aud offered,
for small sum, to procure a verdict il
plaintiffs favor.