The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-04-03

pie gathered IN that vicinity. Berner
was removed after his sentence to Co
lumbus.
The police, upon arriving in the VII
cinity of the Jail, commanded the
crowd to move. Not being obeyed,
they fired, but as no one was hurt it
is presumed they fired in the air. 1t
is said that was the intention of the
police, they being deeplyin sympathy
with the movement to condemn the
outrageous Berner verdict. A shot or
two was fired from the Jail, but the
crowd refused to move. 'si or
At II o'clock the reporter saw great
crowd of men inside the Jail, but they
had not yet reached the cell room.
They were we'll supplied with tools
and were at work on the doors. There
was apparently no resistance to the
mob, and on the other hand no vic.
lence being offered to persons by the
mob, except that Adam Maegley, one
of the policemen in the patrol wagon,
was struck with a brick and slightly
hurt.
The First Regiment, Ohio National
Guard, was called out and marched
through the front entrance of the
Court House, thence through the tun-
mel into the Jail, where the mob was
thronging. The police inside the Jail
arrested some of the first members of
the mob that entered, but this soon
became impracticable. 1t now appears
that Berner, after sentence, was dis
guised and placed in buggy with
Deputy Sheriff Dominick Devato and
driven to Linwood, where they got
aboard the Morrow accommodation
and went to Loveland to await the ar
rival of Criminal Deputy Joe Moses
with the necessary papers for the pris-
oner's committal to the Penitentiary.
1t became known that Berner was at
When the train with Moses aboard
came in, and when Devato and Berner
went on board of it, the crowd made a
rush for Berner. He ran through the
car and escaped. He was afterwards
recaptnred and safely lodged in the
penitentiary at Columbus.
About midnight thirty shots with
muskets were fired by the militia for
the purpose of soaring the mob. The
result was glancing balls struck at
least four persons, inficting injuries
which may be fatal at least in the case
of one or two. Policeman Num- and
Private Cook are the worst hurt, the
latter being shot in the breast. The
vOlley seemed to check the movement
of the mob, though the crowd did not
disperse from about the Jail. There
does not seem to be any doubt that
these wounds were inflicted by the
guns of the soldiers. The mob made
no effort to shoot SO far as known.
About one o'clock the mob brought
petroleum and inflammable material
and piled it up against the Jail doors,
declaring an intention to burn the Jail.
The fire department was summoned,
but the fire was allowed to go out.
About two o'clock the mob broke
into the armory of the veteran regi-
ment and took all the arms and am
muhition therefrom. For the purpose
of getting more arms and ammunition
the mob broke into the extensive gun
store of B. Kittredge & Co., the largest
in the city. In few minntes greatly
superior force to the military was about
the Jail. Some talked about getting
the cannon at Music Hall.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of Sunday
gives the following account of the Sec
ond day of the riot:
The popular rage took another and
most disastrous turn last night, and
today the smoking ruins of the court
house remain to tell every tax payer
and property owner of the county ol
the great loss that has been inflicted
upon him. 1t was the peoples proper
ty and the people have destroyed it.
Today they will ask, such as can think
| Was it worth while to inflict this great
damage upon ourselves, even if we die
thereby get hold OF these murderers
1t was mad attempt to burn the Jail
and so far as could be seen from re-
view of the situation at midnight il
was not likely to help the attack OIL
| the Jail an iota.
| The crowd was full of deep rage
against the military for the staying o
some of the citizens the night before
They were disappointed that they haC
not succeeded in getting the twenty
three murderers outand hanging then
The rage against the jury that had al
lowed Berner to escape the gallows
and the cumbersome criminal Law
which had allowed the Jail to become
populated with murderers, was now
turned also against the citizen soldiery
| officered by inexperienced officers
which had killed and wounded So
many of their fellow. citizens the nigh
before. The enraged citizens, feeling
that they were not able to cope with
the militia, expressed their feelings il
a Wanuon destruction of the county
seat of law and justice. AT first there
were some boulders thrown into tn,
windows from Main street. This soor
grew general, and many of the crowC
fired revolvers and shotguns at the
windows. The militia took no notice
of this, and the crowd was encouraged
They broke into the treasurer's office
gathered furniture, piled It up and sci
it on fire. The incendiary fever grew
and one after another of the Office:
were treated in the same way. Finally
the crowd reached the Sheriff's Office
After they had treated this to fire
brand they rushed up South Cour
street to break in the doors on tina
side. This was signal for massacre
The troops drawn up behind the bar
ricade at sycamore street began firing
One crash after another of musketry
made the air shiver, and men dropped
by the scores in every direction. Mean
while the court house burned on with
out hindrance. for the fire department
were not allowed to interfere.
1t Ia an incalculable loss. 1t is q loss