The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-01


that there was no warrant whatever for
the fire by the militia. He had ascertained
that everywhere the most pronounced In
dignation existed against the hasty action
Of the militia. The end OF the trouble
was not at hand.
Judge Murphy said that IL the military
had not been called upon. and the ease left
10 the police to deal with, not one would
have been killed.
Archbishop Elder said Il was q horrible
thing, and it seemed strangc that citizens
should appoint policemen and place them
under oath to perform their duties, and
then those same citizens attack the very
men OF whom they required an oath to
keep the peace.
The Commercial Gazette says editori.
ally:
ats mistake to talk about the mob at
the jail the night before last rs tougbs and
roughs. The men active ana earnest in
the movement were not, as a rule, OF the
vicious classes. They were largely work
ingmen. good example OF the plain peO-
pie. There was but one reply made 90 the
protests OF citizens that the mob was
mistake, and that was 10 thic effect There
Is no justice here. II man has money he
can commit murder and get away. 1t must
be stopped OF course ii must be stopped. !
The reign OF the criminal ring was over
before there was a drop Of blood shed.
Public opinion had only to thoroughly de-
clare itself in these cases and the thing is
done. 1t is miserable that honest men
should go killing each other on account OF
the murderers in the jail, while scoundrcls
whose crimes have done thc mischief are
pandering to the passions that are rife"
A remarkable feature OF the trouble il
that the feeling in Cincinnati il shared by
the country towns all over Southern Ohio.
At least dozen efforts were made between
here and Columbus to lynch Berner. the
mockery Of whose trial Is the immediate
caIlsc OF the riOting. People i'm the cOun-
try who knew little or nothing Of the ease
beyond the fact that it was one in which
justice had been shamefuliy cheated were
wild with the desire TO hang him. Ii was
on account OF the efforts OF a\mOb to
take HIM from the train at Loyeland
that he escaped from the officers. After his
capture the same disposition was shown
at every town he was carried through. !
The train was searched wherever stop
was made, and had it not been for the fact
that Berner had been concealed in an cX-
press car he would undoubtedly have been
taken from the officers and hanged. The
same feeling WAS exhibited in Dayton on
Saturday. Evidently the Outburst Of in
dignation against corruption IN the courts
is rs general rs it is fierce.
Scenes al the Hospital.
A special from Cincinnati to the New
York Times SAYS: The most hcart-rending
scenes have been occurring at the Morguc
and the City Hospital all day. Families
missed one Of their number at the break
fast table. 4 search for the missing one
in many instances resulted i'm his being
found either at the hospital or the dead
house. As q reporter entered Ward ID Of
the City Hospital a scene presented itself
that would have drawn tears from a heart
OF stone. On each side OF the ward the
cots were arranged about SIX feet apart,
and between the cots were seated mothers,
fathers. sisters, and brothers. \ mother
would OCCASIONALLY burst out in tears, say
ing, My poor boy" A sister would eX-
claim, " Doctor, do you think my brother
will die? can't YOU save him :" while some
would smooth back the matted hair from
the dampcned roreheadS Of their relatives.
Doctor, do you think | will de-"
asked 4 youth whose breath now came
short and quick. The Doctor, bending
over him. said in a kindly tone:
YES. am afraid there is no hope for
You now
Then please send for my mother. |
want TO see her before die
Hardly had he uttered these words when
the poor. brOken-heacted mother rushed in
through the ward-dOor Hastily looking
around, she recognized her boy, and ran to
his cot, when she frantcaly embraced him.
The reporter and physicians left them alone
10 their last parting on earth. In the NORTH
crn portion OF the ward a group Of surs
geons were amputating the limb OF ThcO-
dOre kloeckler, porter for John G. Fratz,
the druggist, while walking up and down
the centre alsles were dozens OF friends and
relatives, whose grIei at times seemed I'M
comfortable. Taken altogether, il was one
OF the SaddeSt scenes ever witnessed.
DR.. y. :. Young, an old and skIlIful sur
geon. says that one half the inmates OF this
ward will die. This will swell the list Of
the dead to nearly one hundred. The doe
tors are complaining TINT it is almost i'm
possible TO treat the patents properly.
owing TO the interference OF friends and
relatives. While it's the rule OF the hOspi-
tai to admit no one, unless relatives, they
find II impossible TO refuse admission. 20
frantic Is the demand to see and identify
the wounded.