Omaha daily bee., 1884-03-31
that Officer Mum lost his life in trying to pro-
tect the lives of worthless murderers.
CONMANpEP uItNT's STATEMENT.

tect the lives of worthless murderers.
COMMANDER HUNTS STATEMENT.
Colonel Hunt, commander of the militia,
gives this version of tho firing on the mob:
when we endeavored TO pass through the
tunnel we found 1t Occupied by a mob who,
just as soon as the two leading files made their
appearances, began firing on us 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
firing of tho mob" This account of the firing
is directly coutradicted by Officer Var Seq
germ, whose story has been told already. he
begged the soldiers not to shoot.
BEBNER's ESCAPE FROM THE MOB.
COLUMBUS, O., March 2 .-The trainmen
and passengers who arrived here after mid
night give the following account of the mobs
at Loveland and Morrow and their efforts to
get Berner, the murderer, to Columbus. Two
deputies, with Berner, drove from Cincinnati
over to Linnwood and there took the accom-
mediation train for Loveland. This part of
the Journey was made without accident. Joe
Moses was then to go to the Little Miami de-
pot and quietly board the train for Columbus,
and join the two deputies and Berner at
Loveland. When the Little Miami train
pulled into Loveland Berner was placed on a
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come to a full stop. The two deputies sat
near him, but did not have him fastened to
them. Joe Moses sat in the next car in ad.
vance. AS the train came to a stop a bowling
mob of nearly three hundred mon made 4
dash for the cars, yelling,
THERE HE IL; CATCH HIM"
Some of the men were masked, while part
of them were not. They climbed up on the
cars, but most of them broke for the one ID
which AIngaa yyaQ aaatpI nnn nf tha Jap,t;o.
who had been detailed to watch Berner
sprang from his seat and started for the front
end of the car. The crowd thought il was
Berner and bounced on him and bore hin. to
the ground. He was choked, beaten and al.
most killed before the mistake was discovered.
Berner had sprung from his seat, but in at
tempting to jump from the platform he fell
headlong to the ground. 1t was doubtless
this accident that prevented the crowd from
recognizing him. The train boy was standing
on the platform at the time, and says
Berner walked around the car and
entered again from the rear. In the
meantime the wild mob had discovered its
mistake and were even more Infatuated than
before. Berner walked about two.thirds OF
the way through tho car when one of the dep
uties, who had seen him jump from the train,
cried, There he goes now; catch him." I'm
mediately Berner started ON u run, and
again
JUhfgD FROM THE TRAIN,
which by this time had started TO pull out oil
the station. One of the deputies started after
him while the ope who had been mistaken for
Berner was still held by the crowd, Joe
Moses and the third deputy remained on the
train. The mon do not think Berner was cap
tured. They believe that after jumping iron
toe train the second time he ran between tn,
Little Miami train and q second train which
was standing on the track, and after eludinl
the mob
EsCAPEDKo THE FIELDS.
The train-boy, brakeman and conGlctol
verify these statements, When the first sec
tion OF tho train, the one that had been at
tackled at Loyeland, pulled into Morrow an
other mob was waiting 10 capture the prisoner
Tho mob was composer of 40 to 900 me"
only part of whom were masked. Before thl
train stopped they climbed on the engine, int,
the cars and on the steps, eager to get posses
sion Of the murderer. Some of the men at
tempted to force the engineer TO stop the trail
before 1t got into town Ia order that they
could
SWING BERNER FROM THE BRIDGE
near by. They hunted through The passenger
baggage and sleeping cara, completing theil
search Just as tho train pulled AVA from tn,
town. Morrow 10 fourteen miles northeast Of
Loyeland. Moses and lis deputy got of here
and were so excited they could hardly speak.
The second section of the LATHE Miami train
! which starts from Cincinnati ab0nt fiteeI
minutes after the first, witnessed almost tn,
same scenes that had been enacted before a.
Loyeland. a wild mob was still
YELLING n gcRREcHIEG
for Burner. Many men rushed upon tn