Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-04-04
QUELLED BY LAW.
The Reign Of Terror in Cincinnati at IN
End-The City Saved by the
Soldiery,
over One Hundred Killed ana wounded
The bloody History Of Three Nights
- of Anarchy Citizens Committee
t3,-4 ia Formed,


.Silpu ana flOting, SuCn rs arc not uncommon
Tin the widest of western cities. A meet
Ing was called by some of the best citizens
to protest against the action of the jury In
the Bcriier case on Monday, when he was
found guilty of manslaughter, though in
dicted for murder In the first degree BY
seven O'Clock Music Hall was we'll filed
with constantly increasing crowd. Long
before the meeting was called to order
TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE
crowded the hall and surgcd about the cor
lfidors and filed the space in front of the
building. The looks of the people were
aominous of evil. Those who called the
meeting soon saw that they had raised
storm thar might end In whlrwind.
sts was too late to back out They or
Ranized with a long list of vice presi-
dents and the usual officers. They In
tended to council together and advise as TO
the best means of Kidding Cincinnati of the
stain that was upon her name. 1t was not
n mob of the lower classes, but an angry
gathering of the best citizens, indignant
beyond control-a smolderlng fire that only
needed breath to fan II into roaring
flame.
s DIR. Kemper, a respected citizen, WINS
made chairman, and made a conservative
speech,
CoUNsELINo MODERATION,
and discussing how to correct the abuses OF
criminal procedure and jury trials. An
Iallusion to the Berner jury was met by cries
sof "Hang thenlp "Hang them all ~ Lynch
'emp' One man called out, II thought we
came here to organize q vigilance committee.
If so let's get to work." Shouts of "Yes!
yesp' mingled with few feeble "Noes,"
greeted the suggestion.
Order was partially enforced and the
speaker introduced General Hickenlooper,
who spoke in the same strain, with frequent
Interruptions of the same sort. Then Judge
Garter came forward and addressed them,
giving his long experience on the bench,and
saying he had not heard of such an outrage on
law in oil his life before. III the jury was be-
lieved to have been dishonest in this mat
ter they should be allowed to leave the
country, for they were not fit to live in n
civilized country A voice called out:
s'What about Tom Campbell, the great
criminal lawyer? IL he's as dishonest as we
seem to think ne is, let him go, too" And
the answering cheer almost lifted the roof.
A big brawney fellow in an upper gallery
LET DOWN A NoosED BorE
I'm the sight of all. 1t was suggestive, and in
aminute score more ropes were In sight.
Amid shouts of "Hang 'em all Gut the
jail Shoot them down on sightw etc., etc.
Resolutions, strong and sharp, were brought
in and passed with whirl. A friend of
Campbell, Berner's lawyer, tried to amend
them. but the crowd would have none of it.
They became more and more bolsterous,
Their blood was getting hotter. The tiger
in mems bosoms was awakened. The
leaders saw they must, If possible, avert
mischief, and as quickly Us possible, adj
journed at $3.50.
In five minutes the hall was empty. AT
9:55 the fire bells struck G2l, the number of
the court house. Instantly the city was in
commotion. Everybody knew what 1t
meant. Crowds filled the streets and hurried
toward the Jail. Fifteen thousand people
were there in fifteen minutes. The first
overt act was by some boys, who
BEGAN TO STONE THE JAIL.
Very soon n crowd gathered. 1t was
soon reinforced from the Music Hall meet
ing In short time all the windows of
the Jail were broken. The crowd had
ropes They broke into carriage factory
across the street and took out a huge beam,
sledge hammers, etc. A dozen men
ran with the beam as n batterng-ram
against the Jail door and forced it open. In
side, the sheriff, jailer and deputies kept
themselves as calm as possible. The mob
found that Berner was gone. They tried to
find the Berkers, and tried to batter down
the cell door of one of them.
BY this time the police were thick about
there. They got possession of the inside
of the jail and restored, in slight degree
order But they did not dare to make any
arrests. The mob would not allow it,
They filed the house and roamed about un-
checked,
SEEKING SOME LuCKLESS CRIMINAL
nm xyhntn IN xyranly yaupaanoa rrhara 1yna
shooting, but it was up to this time only
from the mob firing In the air. Meantime
Berner had been taken to Loyeland, twenty
five miles away, in charge of a deputy.
While awaiting for the arrival there of Joe
Moses, the criminal bailiff, mob organized
and took him away, but, he escaped.
Nothing further was definitely known at
midnight 1t is also there reported that
the mob had
SET FIRE TO THE JAIL.
The First Regiment o. N. G. was drilling
in their armory couple OF squares away
from the jail. Sheriff Hawkins brought
over detachment and introduced them
into the jail through the cellar. The mob
filled the corridors; they were ordered to
Withdraw, but refused, and
THE MILITIA OPENED FIRE,
shooting perhaps sixty rounds. The cor
ridOrs were filed with smoke The gas
went out. Pandemonium reigned but the
mob was driven out. What the effect of the
shooting was on the mob Is not yet known.
Two policemen were shot by the rioters,
one militiaman, one civilian, 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 light went up
and an alarn, want I'm ha anuinau oann
to the scene but could not get near the
place for the crowd, and seeing what 1t was
went back again. There was no danger
there of fire. The mob kept
HowLNG LIKE VERY DEMONS,
but doing nothing. No confusion was ever
worse. No one could get inside the Jail TO
find out the situation there. IL was an
hour and a half before the boy shot Inside
could be brought out.
At two o'clock the number of the mob
was perhaps from 1000 TO 5000. They
were swearing they would get in and hang
all the murderers inside. They had finally
procured a barrel of coal oil and poured II
over the Sheriff's office, swearing they would
yet burn down the building, and some were
Ineditating an attack on the gun stores.
TO SECURE ARMS.
The militia and police were all ON the in
side awaiting developments. The mob
had fired on the soldiers first when the lat
ter came up from the cellar. The muir
derers in the cell were scared nearly to
death.
The mob first broke into the National
Guard ArmOry, took out about 100 muskets,
formed three abreast, marched TO the jail.
fought away all their ammunition and then
came down Main street and broke open
Kittrldge's gun store, which they riaed,
taking everything they could lay hands on
IN the shape OF arms and ammunition.
News just comes from the jail that the
mob is
NOT DEFEATED YET.
They have broken into the aim0ry of the
Veteran Regiment and taken guns. More
firing has been done at the jail. The
Innh Ia now looking for Ammunition