The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-03
The Governor Has Ordered the Militia e
Route to Return Home.
The Work of Restoration Commenced and
the Records at the Court House
Mostl Saved.
sabbath's Days Work by the
Mob
Sad Scenes ia and About the Court House,
and incidents of the Day
Berner. After an Escape. is Landed Safely
at the Penitentiary.
The Memorable Scenes of that Bloody
Saturday Night.


RHRNER SAFE IN THE PENITESTIARY.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March a9.-Berner
was landed In the penitentiary at g.
O'Clock tonight, being accompanied by
strong guard commanded by Deputy.
Sheriff Joe Moses, of Cincinnati. He
had most eventful experience of escapes
for the past thirty hours.
After leaping from the tram last night
he wandered over the country, keeping
in sight OF the railroad, and finally rest
ed in a box Car on siding until nearly
daylight, when he broke for the woods,
and was overtaken about 10 O'Clock by
Deputies Moses and Devote, who kept
up the chase with buggies.
They had difficulty in keeping him
concealed during the day. and finally
drove TO Fosters Crossing, the next sta
ton beyond Loveland, where they had
previously arranged to meet some news
paper correspondents. They had changed
Berner's appearance so that no one
would have recognized him from the
description.
They turned him over to two CORE
spondents, and then claimed that they
had failed to find their man. There was
quite q crowd at the place, however, be-
fore the train arrived there at 4 O'Clock,
and the people suspected them and
called for Berner, but they got safely off.
Berner was at once taken into the
closed express car by the journalists,
| and the officers were in the coaches, pre-
| tending to be en- route to the capital for
advice and aid. They kept the govern.
or advised by the conductor sending dis
| patches from every station, and the gov
ernor got the officials to have the train
stopped half mile from the depot here
and close to the penitentiary.
When Berner was taken in on the run
| there were crowds at all of the stauons,
making inquiries, and multitude
| awaited the train in and about
the slip. a detachment of fifteen
| police and a large number of prison
| guards had been quietly located at the
| suburban crossing, where the party
/ aiIghted and then succeeded in getting
there one by one, without arouslng sus-
| picion.
They made a large crowd however.
| On the double quick to the prison gates
Berner was scared neaEto death, and he
was the first man Warden Thomas ever
saw glad to get behind the walls. He
Is eighteen years old and sentenced to
twenty years.
THE MOB RENEW THE ATTACK AT THE
JAIL.
CINCINNATI, March 29-All day
changing crowds have 1lled the streets
as near to the Jail as they Were permitted
to come. The jail and court house oc-
cupY square. bounded on the west by
Main, on the east by Sycamore and on
the north and south by narrow streets
called North and South Courts. The
Jail is a circular building with two
wings extending north and south, faces
east on Sycamore street and the yard Is
enclosed with a high stone wall sur
mounted by an iron fence. The eastern
front has doors leading into the resi-
dence of the jailor, which open on the
sidewalk. The entrance proper to the
iall is reached by stone winding stair
way leading down to an ares
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 jailor's residence and
could fill the area IN front OF the lower
door, which they battered open with {
heavy sawed beam obtained from new
building close by. The same beam and
a halt dozen more have been carried
into the Jail today and used as props tc
secure all the outer doors. They art
long enough to reach back TO the soliC
down the doors would be exceedingly
difficult now. The jsIl office and iailor'
residence have scarcely an unbroken ar
ticle about them. Eyen the large heat
} ing stove was wrecked. Turnkey Nc
Hngh's wife and children passed
NIGHT OF TERROR.
McHugh was compelled TO serve viii
Sheriff Hawkins until the mob was ex
PEELED, while the mother and children il
] the rooms above heard the shots OF tht
, soldiers ard the shouts of the mob ant
witnessed the destruction of their furnl
ture. To add to their horror the mol
} yelled, "Take out the women and chill
dren; we are going to set barrel o
coal oil on fire, and we Will put q barre
, OF powder on top OF that" The coal oil
was fired, but the mob had no DOW dtI
McHugh. final y, at 2 o'clock a. NJ, tool
: his children and wife down the inne
stairway and out through the tunnel to
place of safety. Sheriff Hawkins ha
acted all day as though he expected
A RENEWAL OF THE ATTACK
at night with increased violence. II
has called for troops as elsewhere State
: and has called out his old command {
the veteran regiment composed C
soldiers of the late war, Col. Hunt ha
: also mustered as many of his First reg
D ment as could be brought out, and tn
jail has all the appearance of a fortres
except the heavy guns. That most feal
, full street engine of destruction, To
q Calling gun, belonging to the polio
q force Is also on duty. Late last evenIn
a, police and soldiers were busy under She
if Hawkins direction barricading Ii
streets in every direction at a distance {
# one hundred yards from the jail. Heav
n transfer wagons were upturned in Ii
: street and building material, woot
- stones and iron from neighboI
J. ing buildings were appropriated
II construct a strong defense for Ii
l. purpose of preventing a rush
= people TO the vicinity of the Jail. Tt
mob To night would haYe first to storl
these barricades before getting With
= reach of the Jail. These thorough pref
:, arations added to the fact that
MORE TROOPS ARE COMING
e. may hold the mob IN check. The ia
N is no organized mob is known. That
,p last night was not premeditated it vi
spontaneous, growing not out of incend
a airy speeches or resolutions at the meI
D. ing, for these were all conservative, b
ct out of the fact that q great body of me
b. assembled together on the streets, with
common feeling of intense indignatit
at the criminal farce played by the BE
n ner jury and at the general sIackness
al the administration of justice to murde
- ers- The mob spirit grew by degrees al
~ was not the result of a settled plan I
30 day circulars have been distributed ca
nj ing for the organization of vi
~ lance committees OF 800 II each wal
u Il is anonymous aud seems 10 have
NC respectable backing.
% 6p. m--While Sheriff Hawkins ca
on fully protected his front and TANKS
barricades, as already described, he
NEGLECTED TO PROTECT HIS REAR.
ca which was the court house front lo0ki
~. west on Main street. An immense cro'
IA. has gathered there aud the large pii
glass windows are bling crashed IN wi
re bouIders. This will give entrance to
X. Jail yard and 70 the jail through the Il
an mel, but only to a small number a
"a time. Tha troops from Columbus |
= not yet here.
Ct: A FIRE ALARM.
B. Gas D. ma fire alarm has j
N. sounded from Cou and Vine, {
=. squares from the court house, caused
~ q fire in the treasurer's efiice, which
on the frat floor of the court hoa
There is also an immense bonfire
front of the Second National bauk,
the corner of Coutt aud Main, direc
~ opposite the treasnrer's office. All
100 large glass windows IN the front Of
ow court house are broken TO pieces. ]
mob are firing revolvers, thIowi
boulders and yelling. The militia 81
into the mob from the court house.
led as no harm was done 50 tar as kno
loo it IS supposed they used blank G
- ridges. The mob Is greater than II !
NO last ntRhf and fhera are more drum