The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-03
non Law.
4 bloody Riot at the CincinnatI Jail.
Over the yerdief In the BeEner
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4 Bloody Riot At the Cincinnati Jail.
Over the Verdict In the BeEneE
Murder Case.
CIEcINNATI, March 2S.-Ten thousand
people gathered at the Music hall In re-
Spouse 70 cali by reputable citizens to
take action or the Berner verdict. Many
could not get In. Strong resolutions were
adopted condemning the verdict and
q committee On legislation was appoint
ed. Upon adjournment the vast crowd
moved directly 10 the jail where they
began an attack ON the front door. AT
8 40 the riot alarm sounded summoning
the entire police force to the Jail. Vast
crowds of people are gathering in that
vicinity. Berner was removed after his
sentence this afternoon and is low on
his way TO Columbus, bnt If the mob
gets in the other murdeFers will be
lynehed.
The police;upon arriving IN the vicinity
of the iail. commanded the crowd to move.
Not being obeyed, they fred, bat as no
one was hurt it was presumed the police
fred In the air. II is said that was the
intention of the police, they being
deeply in sympathy with the movement
to condemn the outrageous Berner YER
dict.
THE MILITIA
has been ordered out, but large numbers
fail to appear, and there is general dis
position, so far as can be seen, not to in
terfere with the mob. Nothing has yet
been heard from Sheriff Hawkins, who
is inside the court house and cannot be
reached. Mayor Stevens is confined to
his house by sickness.
The first regiment, Ohio national
guard, have just entered the Jail, having
been marched through the front en-
trance of the court house, thence
through the tunnel into the Jail, where
the mob is thronging. 1t now remains
10 be seen whether the militia will do
anything to Illustrate the purpose 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 RETAINED from
using their pistols. 1t now appears that
Berner. after sentence, Was disguised
and placed IN a buggy with Deputy
Sheriff Dominick and drIYen to
Linwood, where they got aboard
the accommodation and went to
Loveland to await the arrival
of Criminal Deputy Joe Moses with the
necessary papers for his committal to
the penitentiarY. 1t became known that
Berner was at Loveland, and crowd
gathered. When the train with Moses
aboard came in. and DomInIck and
Btrner went to board it the crowd made
a rush for Bsrner. He ran through the
car and escaped, and is still at large.
AT MIDNIGHT
about Thirty shots with muskets were
fred by the militia for the purpose of
soaring off the mob. The result was
fI,a oil he'll OF al f0llF
persons, infIcting injuries which may
prove fatal in one or two cases. Policeman
Dunn and Private Cook are the worst
hurt. The latter was shot in the breast.
The yolley seems to have checked the
movement of the mob, though the
crowds are not Yet dispersed from about
the jail. There does not seem to be any
doubt that these wounds were inflicted
BY the guns of the soldiers, as
the mob made effort TO shoot so Tar as
known.
The Jail has been fred by the mob,
and the crowd on the streets say they
will cut the hose and prevent the fire de-
partment from extinguishing it. The
mob seems TO think a wholesale holo-
caust the only means of accomplishing
their purpose.
at / 80 a. m. the fire tngines respond
Guilty in getting near found the alarm
false 1t was CccasIoned by a bonfire
built near the jail. AS the building Is
mainly of stone and iron it would be
difficult to fire it from without. 1t now
appears there was an actual conflict be-
tween the mob and military, though il
is still most likely that tue wounds and
the police and military were inflicted
by the fire of the latter When the in
ner door between the reception room of
the cell rooms was broken down the
military fried on the mob at that place,
and Lew Kent, a laborer and q
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 brick bats were
thrown by them at the soldiers and the
police, but generally there WAS not much
bitterness 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
fire that it would have been utter folly to
make any further effort. Some
twenty-five or thirty men were
arrested in the jail. The jail
er's residence in the Jail, which was en-
tered by portion Of the mob, was
rudely handled, the windows being bro
ken and furniture smashed. From this
| q number OF men made their way into
the kitchen and thence to the lower cor
| ridor. After REIMBURSEMENT of the main
effort TO get at the prisoners, the mob
fingered outside, throwing stones and
| BRICK bats at the windows.
THE MOB ARMED.
/ As a. H. News just comes from the
! Jail that the mob is not defeated yet, that
they have broken into the armofy of the
Veteran regiment and taken their guns
More firing has been done at the jail
The mob is now looking for ammunition
with prospects of success. The First
regiments armory has been guarded fol
| three nights in anticipation of
this affair, but the Veteran
regiment, of which Sheriff
| Hawkins is colonel, did not take the
same precautioD. For the purpose Of
getting more arms and ammunition the
mot Is now in the extensive gun store oil
B. Kiurldge 81 Co, the largest in the
city. In few minutes a greatly supe
nor force to the military will be about
the Jail and terrible results must follow
Some are taking about getting the can
| non OF Music hail
From Hutchinson.