Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-05

ana panuenOnlum relSneu, DuC the moo
was driven out.
What the effect of the shooting was on
the mob is not at this hour (midnight)
known. Two policemen were shot by
the rioters, one militiaman, one civil
ian and one boy, the last badly hurt.
The mob remained outside bowling,
yelling and threatening vengeance.
They gathered up material and
made bonfire against the
strong, thick stone walls of the Jail.
The flames made a great light and a yell
was raised that the jail had been fired 1t
looked as though the mob had deter
mined on wholesale holocaust. An
alarm was turned on and the engines
came to the scene, but could not get near
the place for the crowd, and seeing what
it was, went back again. There was no
danger there of fire. The mob kept pres
ent, bowling as very demons, but doing
nothing.
No confusion was ever worse. No one
could get inside the jail to find out the
situation there. 1t was an hour and
half before boy shot inside could be
brought out.
During the confusion it was next
to impossible to get at the
facts, but at | 80 a. m. things
appeared that there was an actual con-
fiict between the mob and military. When
the inner door between the reception
room and cell rooms was broken down
/ the military fired on the mob at that
place and Lew Kent, laborer
and member of the mob, was
shot and killed. This seemed to break the
spirit of the mob though they did not re-
tire hastily. A number of brickbats were
thrown by them at the soldiers and po-
lice, but generally there was not much
bitterness of feeling displayed on either
side. The great superiority of the de-
tenders of the jail over the unarmed and
impYomptu 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 Jail. The jailer's resi-
dence in the jail, which was enterSd by
portion of the mob, was rudely handled,
| the windows broken and furniture
smashed From this a number of men
made their way into the kitchen and
thence to the lower corridor. After the
apparent REIMBURSEMENT of the main eff
fort to get at the prisoners the mob lin
gered outside, throwing stones and brick.
bats at the windows.
l:45 A. M.-News just comes from the
jail that the mob is not defeated yet.
They have broken into the armory of
the Veteran Regiment and taken the
guns. More firing has been done at the
JAIL The mob is now looking for ammu-
milton with prospect of success.
The mob broke into the National Guard
armory, took out about 1000 muskets,
formed three abreast and marched to the
Jail. They shot away all their ammuni-
and then marched down Main street and
broke open Kittredge's gun store, which
they rifled, taking everything they could
lay their hands on in the shape of arms
and ammunition.
"a. Nat this hour the number of
the mob is perhaps from 1000 to 5000.
They are swearing they will yet get in
and hang all the murderers inside. They
have procured a barrel of coal oil and
poured it over the Sheriff's office, swear
ing they would yet burn down the build
ing, and some are meditating an attack
on the gun stores for arms. The militia
and police are all on the inside awaiting
developments.
The mob fired on the soldiers when the
latter came up from the cellar. The
murderers in the cells were scared nearly
to death. Johnson, the black burker, was
nearly white.
The First Regiments armory has been
guarded for three nights in anticipation
of this affair, but the Veteran regiment,
of which Sheriff Hawkins is Colonel, did
not take the same precaution.
2;15 A. M.-Newton Cobb, of Man.
chester, O., was shot in the shoulder by
soldier, through the jail window. Cobb
was by-stander on the sidewalk. The
crowd claim soldiers are firing I'M
necessarily upon the outsiders merely
looking on. On the other hand the
soldiers dread an effort to burn the
place or blow it up by rolling coal oil
barrels into the basement and justify
themselves in clearing the sidewalks on
that account. 1t is said that number OF
women spectators have been hurt with
random shots. The. firing of guns is still
| heard at intervals.
2:3O A. M.-The firing by soldiers from
the windows has been terribly destruct-
i've. The following wounded have been
gathered into the drug store at Court ana
Walnut streets and at the hotel near:
James Green, dying.
Walter Fay, dying.
James Turk, mortally wounded.
F. Soehn, bad wound in thigh.
| Ed Dueff, shot in the legs.
These were all bystanders, and there is
growing bitter feeling against the
| soldiers.
The mob has taken all the arms they
want from Kittredge's store, including a
| small cannon.
CINCINNATI, o., March 20.
| Berner was sentenced to twenty years
| in the Penitentiary, the full limit
of the law. 1t appears that after
the sentence he was disguised and placed
in buggy with Deputy Sheriff
Dominick Devote and driven to Linwood,
where they got aboard the Morrow ac-
commodation and went TO Loveland
to await the arrival of Criminal
Deputy Joe Moses with the neces-
sary papers for committal to the Penl-
tentiary 1t became known that Berner
was at Loveland and crowd gathered.
When the train with Moses aboard came
| in and Devote and Berner went to board
it the crowd made rush for Berner. He
ran through car and escaped, and is
still at large.
Berner, when he escaped from
the mob, rushed through the la
dies car, knocking woman down.
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