The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-04-04
A CINCINNATI MOB.

and Fire Upon the Crowd Fatally Wound
ing Several.
CINCINNATI, March 2S.-Ten thousand
people gathered at the Music Hall, in re
spOnse to call by reputable citizens, :,
take action on the Bemer verdict. Many
could not get in. Strong resolutions wert
adopted condemning the verdict, and com
mittee on legislation appointed. Upon ad
journment vast crowd moved directly t.
the Jail, where they began an attack on the
front door. At $40 a riot alarm was
sounded, summoning the entire police force
to the Jail. Vast crowds of people gathered
in that vicinity. Berner was removed
after his sentence this afternoon, and
is now on his wav to Columbus. but il
the mob gets in the other murderers will be
lynched. The police upon arriving in the
vicinity of the jail commanded the crowd to
move. Not being Obeyed, they fired, but as
no one was hurt, it was presumed the police
fired in the air. 1t is said that 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 re-
fused to move. The meeting at Music Hall
was presided over by DR.. A. c. kemper,
who made conservative speech, taking for
his topic the prevalence of crime throughout
the whole country. He then spoke of the
PREVALENCE OF THE CRIME
of murder in this country, and the necessity
of more certainty in the administration of
punishment for crime. His remarks were
not intended to awaken 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 bodily
in that direction. At eleven p. m. the re-
port from the Jail was that the crowd had
got inside. They had previously broken
into blacksmith shop and had taken
all the tools they could find. There is diff
Guilty in getting information about their
because the streets all around
the court house and Jail are jammed. A
reporter of the Associated Press says that
at eleven o'clock from the stone wall of the
jail yard he saw great crowds of men inside
the Jail, but they had not yet reached the
cell room. They were well supplied with
tools, and were at work at the doors. 1t
was possible they would have to go through
4 stone wall, which would be easy.
There is apparently no resistance to
The mob, and, on the other hand,
no violence has been offered to persons
Dys the mob, except that Adam Maegley,
)ne of the policemen in patrol wagon, was
struck with a brick and slightly hurt. This
vet was condemned by the mob, and now the
patrol wagons are standing in front of the
Jail, surrounded by people. The militia has
been ordered out, but large numbers failed
% appear, and there Is general disposition,
70 far as can be seen, not to interfere with
he mob. Nothing as yet has been heard
rom Sheriff Hawkins, who is inside of the
Court House and cannot be reached. Mayor
Stephens is confined to his house by sick
less. leaving the Sheriff wholly responsible
or the preservation of order, except for the
assistance of the Chief of Police.
TIE MILITIA CALLED OUT.
11:30-The First Regiment Ohio National
Guard have just entered the jail, having
,een marched through the front entrance of
he Court House, thence through the tunnel
nto the Jail, where the mob is thronging.
{ now remains to be seen whether the
militia will do anything to Illustrate the pur-
,ose of the mob. The police inside the Jail
!rrested some of the first members of the
mob that entered, but this soon became I'M
practicable and the police refrained from
Isng their pistols. 1t now appears that
5erner, after sentence, was disguised
md placed in buggy with
Deputy Sheriff DOminick VevOtO, and
riven to Linwood where they got aboard
he narrow accommodation and went to
IOveland to await the arrival of criminal
equity, Joe Moses, with necessary papers
or committal to the penitentiary. 1t be- |
anne known that Berner was at LOveland |
nd crowd gathered. When the train with |
fOses aboard came i'm and VevOto and |
Serner went to get aboard it the crowd made |
rush for Berner. He ran through the car |
nd escaped and is still at large.
FIRED on BY TIE MILITIA.
Midnight-AbOut thirty shots with musk
IS were fired by the militia for the purpose
soaring the mob. The result was glanc-
lg balls struck at least four persons, in
letting injuries which may be fatal in the
ase of one or two. Policeman Mum and
'rivate Cook are the worst hurt. The latter
;as shot in the breast. The volley seems to
ave checked the movement of the mob,
lough the crowds have not yet dispersed
rom about the Jail. There does not seem
D be any doubt that these wounds were in
icted by the guns of the soldiers. The
lob made no effort to shoot, SO far as is
nOwn.
When the iron door between the reception
pom and cell rooms were broken down. the
Military fired on the mob at that place. and
Vm. Kent, laborer and member OF the mob,
as shot and killed. This seemed to break the
pirt of the mob, Though they did not retire
astiIy. A number of brickbats wore thrown
Y them at the soldiers and police, but
cnerally there was not much bitter
ess of feeling displayed on either
de. The greatly superior strength of the
blenders of the Jail over the unarmed and
nprOmptu mob was so manifest when the
,rmer opened the fire that it would have
cen utter folly to make any further
fort. Some twenty-five men We're ar
ested and are in Jail. The jailer's resi-
cnce in the Jail. which was entered by q
ortiOn of the mob. was roughly handled,
indows broken and furniture smashed.
rom this number of men made their way
ito the kitchen, and thence to the lower
,rridOr. After the REIMBURSEMENT of the
lain effort to get at the prisoner, the mob
ngered outside throwing stones and brick
Its at the windows.
els a. m.-NewtOn Cobb of Manchester
:. was shot in the shoulder by soldier
trough the Jail window. Cobb was a
lstander on the sidewalk.
The following wounded have been gath
ed into the drug store at Court and Wal
II streets, and at hotel near:
James Green, dying.
Walter Fay, dying.
James Turk, MORALLY wounded.
7, Soehner, bad wound in the thigh.
Ed. Dullef, shot i'm the legs