The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-30

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restored.
Berner's crime was in asaistin'
Joe Palmer, colort d, 10 the cold
blooded murder Of his employer
William II. Kirk, ON Christmas eve
for. the purpole of robbery. Both D.
and Pain. er confessed the murder
but the jury found him guilt,
of manslaughter. This, with tn
fact that about twenty other untriet
murderers are in the Jail, is wha
infames the public mind. The feel
ing has by no NJ aus been allayed Dy
last nights tragedy, and is CROWNS
not only against the murderers, bu
against the militia, upon whom TIT
whole responsibility Of the loss il
placed. Sheriff Hawkins had re
pulsed the NJ OBJ without bloodshed
and was holding them at bay wher
the militia entered and fred, II
direct opposition to the protest OF
Officer Vonseggern. People do no
rest easy under the fact that Officer
Num- lost his life trying to project
the lives of worthless murderers.
Columbus, O., 20. The riot alarm
has been calling the military to
gether for half an hour. The Four
teenth regiment is resting on lis
arms waiting a special train to Gin
cinnati. Four regiments with head
quarters at Dayton have also been
ordered by the Governor to fall in
for orders.
Train men and passengers who
arrived here after midnight give the
following account OF the mob at
LoveIand and Morrow, and the eff
forts to get Berper, the murderer, to
Columbus: Two deputies with
Berner drove from Cincinnati over
to Linwood, and there took the &C.
commodation toLOveland. This part
of the journey was made without
accident. Joe Moses was then to 60
to the Little Miami depot and
quietly board the train for C1lum
bus, and join the two DEPUTIES aud
Berner at Lovelsnd. When the
Little Miami pulled into Lovelsnd.
Berner was placed on the car next
to the sleeper, before the train had
come to full stop. The two depu-
ties sat near him, but did not have
him fastened to them, Joe Moses
sat in the next car in advance. As
the train came to stop bowling
mob of nearly 800 men made for the
Cars, cling, "rhere he is, ca ch
HIM"
Some Of the men were masked
while part of them were not. They
climbed in all the cars, but most Of
them broke for the ore in which
Moses was seated. One OF the depu
ties who had been detailed with
Berner, sprang from his seat and
started for the front car. The crowd
thought 1t was Berner trying to
escape and pouncing on him bore
him to the ground. Ee was choked,
beaten and almost killed before the
mistake was discovered. Berner
had sprang from. his seat, but in
attempting to jump from the plat
form fell headlong to the ground.
1t was doubtless this accident that
prevented the crowd from recogniZ-
ing him. The train boy who was
standing on the platform at the
time, says Berner walked around
the car and entered again
from the rear. Meantime the mob
had discovered their mistake, and
were even more Infatuated than be-
fore. Berner walked about two
thirds of the way through the Car,
when one of the deputies, who had
seen him jump from the train,
cried: "There he goes now; catch
him." Immediately Berner started
on a run and again jumped from the
train,. which by this time had
started to pull cut from the station
One Of the Deputies ran after him, |
while the one who had Deen mis-
taken for Berner was still held by
the crowd. joe Moses and the ihIrd
deputy remained On the train. he
train men do not think Berner vas
captured. They believe after jump.
ing from the train the second time.
he ran between the Little
Miami train, and the second |
train was standing On tie track |
1Ao oltCk tuuo CsoQiuS tuC I1UO
escaped to the field. A train boy, a
brakeman and the conductor verify
these statements. While the first
section Of the train, the one that
had been attacked at Loveland,
pulled into Morrow, another mob
vas waiting to capture the prisoner.
The mob was composed of $50 or
700 men, only part Of whom were
masked. Before the train stopped
hey climbed on the engine, into the
'ars and on the steps, eager to get
Possession of the murderer. Some
# the men attempted to force the
engineer to stop the train before it
,ot into town in order that they
could swing Berner from a bridge
lear by. They hunted through
he passenger, baggage and sleeping
are, completing their search just as
he train pulled away from
own. Morrow is fourteen miles |
forth west Of Loveland Moses
nd a deputy got off here. They
we're so excited they could hardly |,
peak. The second section of the
little Miami which starts from
about fifteen minutes
fter the first, witnessed almost the
anne scene as those that had been
nacted before. At T,oveland theI