St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-31


this firing by ordering that not more than
one man should fire at time, and then only
to frighten, not to kill But the men were
uncomfortable and fired at the crowd, doing
deadly work. Later the crowd broke into the
veteran armory and Kittredge's gun store
| and got arms. But by the time this was
done the crowd had so thinned out that no
| further serious attempt was made, and at
$3.50 this morning quiet was restored.
BERNER'S CRIME.
Berner's crime was assisting Joe Palmer,
colored, in the cold blooded murder of his
employer, VIM. A. Kirk, on Christmas eve,
for the purpose of robbery. Both he and
Palmer confessed the murder, but the jury
found him guilty of mansaughter. This,
with the fact that about twenty other untried
murderers are in Jail, is what in1ames the
public mind The feeling has by no means
been alayed by last nights
tragedy, and is growing, not only
against the murderers, but against
the militia, upon whom the whole response
bility for the loss Of life is placed. Sheriff
bloodshed, and was holding them at bay,
when the militia entered, and the fire by the
soldiers was in direct opposition to the pro-
test of Officer Won Seggern. The people do
not rest easy under the fact that Officer
Num- lost his life trying to protect the lives
of worthless murderers.
THE COMMANDERS VERSION.
Col Hunt, commander of the militia,
gives this version Of the firing on the mob:
''When we were endeavoring to pass through
the tunnel, we found it occupied by the mob,
who, just as soon as the two leading files
do fhai frin
and three or four of the leading men fell
badly wounded The deputy sheriff who was
with Us ordered the men to return the fire
which they did, and cleared the tunnel. In
every instance the men fired under orders.
Most of the gunshot wounds came from the
indtscrminate firing Of The mob.'
The account of the fire is directly contra
dicted by Officer Won Seggern, whose story
has been told already. He begged the sol
diers not to shoot.
WHERE Is BERNER?
Nothing has been heard of Berner. Dep
uty sheriffs left Loveland this morning in
carriage, going toward Cincinnati, giving
rise to the suspicion that Berner had come
home to hide, but that is mere guessing.
MORE TROUBLE FEARED.
The crowds in the vicinity of the court
house and Jail continue large, though the
police and soldiers prohibit all access to the
front or sides of the jail or to the streets for
square in every direction. The apprehen
sion of trouble tonight has grown stronger
1t is rumored that Campbell county, KY,
will send 500 men to rescue rioters arrested
last night and still in Jail.
PROBABLY AT COLUMBUS.
d.,
Fosters crossing to MEANWHILE in direction
of the city where he was transferred to the
Columbus accommodation and locked up in
the express car. He passed Loveland and
Morrow alright and shonld by this time,
q p. M, be in Columbus.
DESCRIPTIVE.
All day changing crowds have filled the
streets as near to the Jail as they were per
mitted to come. The Jail and court house
occupy the square bounded west by Main,
east by Sycamore and north and south by
narrow streets called north and south court.
The court house fronts west on Main and
reaches from north court to south court.
The jail is a circular building with two wings
extending north and south, faces east on
Sycamore street and its yard is enclosed with
a high stone wall surmounted by an iron
fence. The eastern front has doors leading
into the residence of the jailer, which open
on the sidewalk. The entrance proper to the
Jail is reached by stone winding stairway
leading down to an area twelve feet below
the sidewalk. Here was the beginning of the
attack last night. The crowd could surge up
to the very doors of the jailer's residence and
could fill the area in front of the lower door,
which they battered open with a heavy sawed |
beam obtained from new building near by. |
The same beam and half dozen others have |
been carried into the Jail to-day and used as
props to secure all the outer doors. They are |
long enough to reach back to a solid wall or |
pillar, and the work of battering down the |
doors will be exceedingly difficult now.
THE JAILoR's FAMILY.
The jail office and iailor's residence has
scarcely an unbrolen article about them Ev-
en- a large heating stove was wrecked.
Turnkey McHugh's wife and children passed
the nightin terror McHugh was compelled
to serve with Sheriff Hawkins until the mob
was expelled, while the mother and children
in rooms above heard the shots of soldiers
and shouts of the mob, and witnessed the
of furniture. To add to the hor-
ror the mob yelled, "Take out the women
and children, we are going to set fire to
barrel of coal oil and we win put barrel of
powder on that" The coal oil was fired but
the mob had no powder. McHugh finally,
at 2 a. m. took his children and wife down
an inner stairway and out through the tun-
mel to place of safety.
PREPARED FOR ANOTHER ATTACK.
Sheriff Hawkins has acted all day as
though he expected renewal of the attack at
night, with increased violence. He has called
for troops, as elsewhere stated, and has called
out his own command, the veteran regiment,
of soldiers of the late war. Col
Hunt has also mustered as many of his first
regiment as could be brought out, and the
Jail has all the appearance of fortress ex-
cept heavy guns. That most fearful engine
Of destruction, the Calling gun, belonging
to the police force, is also on duty. Late
this afternoon the police and soldiers were
busy under Sheriff Hawkins direction, barri-
cading streets in every direction at dis
lance of 100 yards from the jail. Heavy
transfer wagons were upturned in street and
building material, wood, stone and iron from
buildings, were appropriated to
construct strong defenses for the purpose of
a rush of people to the Vicinity of
-he jail. A mob tonight would have first to
storm these barricades before getting within
reach of the Jail. These thorough prepare
ions, added to the fact that more troops are
coming, may hold the mob in check
THE MOB UNPRECEDENTED.
The fact is no organized mob is known.
That of last night was unprecedented. 1t
vas spontaneous, growing not out of incen-
liary speeches and resolutions at the meet
ng, for these were all conservative, but of the
,act of the great body of men together on the
streets with common feeling of intense
at the criminal farce by the
3erner jury, and at the general slackness of
he administration of justice to murderers
The mob spirit grew by degrees, and was
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