, 1884-03-29


murderer, was let out of the p~enitentiary
and taken from the train by Il mob at
Lovcland and is thought to be lynchcd.
CINCINNATI. March 20, 1905 a. m.-The
fire engines responded to an alarm of fire.
After much difficulty in getting earfound
the alarm to be false. 1t was occasioncd
by a bonfire built near the jail. As the
building is mainly of stone and iron it
would be difficult to fire it from without
1t now appears there was an actual con
fict between the mob and the military.
though it is still most likely that the
wounds of the police and military were
inflicted by the fire of the latter.
When the inner door between the re-
ception room and the cell rooms was
broken down the military fired on the
mob at that place and Lew Kent, a la
borer and a member of the mob, was shot
and killed. This seemed to break the
spirit of the mob though they did not re-
tire hastily. A number of brickbats were
thrown by the mob at the soldiers and
police, but generally there was not much
bitterness of feeling displayed on either
side. The great superior strength of the
defenders of the jail over the unarrned
and i%mpromptu mob was manifest when
the former opened a fire that would have
been an utter folly to make any further
effort. Some twenty-five or thirty men
were arrested and placed in jail. The
%jailer's residence is in the Jail, which was
entered by a portion of the mob and rude
ly handled, the windows smashed and
the furniture broken. From this a nun
Der of the men made their way into the
kitchen and thence to the lower corridor.
After the REIMBURSEMENT of the effort to
get at the prisoners the mob remained on
the outside throwing brickbats at the
windows.
l:45 a. m.-Ihe news just comes from
the jail that the mob is not defeated yet.
They have broken into the armory of the
Veteran regiment and taken guns. More
firing has been done at the jail.
CINCINNATI, March 2S.-The history of
the crime for which Berner was to-day
sentenced to twenty years Imprisonment, is
briefly as follows: VIM. ii. Kirk was muir
dered in his stable last February by Ber-
ner, who stood behind the door, and when
his victim entered smashed his head with
a hammer, robbed him of 800, put the
body into the wagon of the murdered man
and hauled it off and dumped it into Mill
creek, where it was found a few days
later.
CINCINNATI, March 29.-Thc mob is
now looking for ammunition with prospect
of success. The First regiment armory
has been guarded for three nights in
anticipation of this affair but the Veteran
regiment, of which Sheriff Hawkins is
colonel, did not take the same precaution.
For the purpose of getting more arms and
ammunition the mob is now in the ex-
tensive gun store of b. Kittridge & Co.,
the largest in the city. In a few minutes
a greatly superior force to the military
will be about the jail, and serious results
must follow. Some are talking about
getting the cannon at Music hall.
2:l5'a. m.-Newton Cobb, of Man
chester, Ohio, was shot in the shoulder by
a soldier through the jail window. Cobb
was a bystander on the sidewalk.
The crowd claim the soldiers were firing
unnecessarily upon outsiders who were
merely lockers on. On the other hand
the soldiers dread the effort to burn the
place or blow 1t up by rolling coal oil
barrels into the basement and justify
themselves In clearing the sidewalks on
that account. 1t is said a humble OF
women spectators have beer hurt with
shots. The hung OF guns is stlll heard at
intervals.
2:30 a. m.-The firing by the soldiers
from the windows has beer terribly de
structive. The following wounded have
been gathered into the drug store at the
corner OF Court and Walnut and at the
hotel near by: II. james Green, dying
Walter Il Fay dying James Turk, NOR
tally wounded +. Soehner, bad wound IN
thigh Edward Dullet, shot IN the leg.
growing a bitter feeling against the sol
diers, The mob has taken all the arms
tbcv want from Kittridyc's atore includ-