The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-01


Office one at time. HIS influence was
counteracted IN some cases. however, by
"Skinny" Lewis. who overhauled each
| man who made q move to leave the Office
aud held him back. and who tried to excite
enthusiasm by yelling. Lets get hImn
String him upi" etc.
1t finally occurred to the mob that they
had no tools to work with, and after dis
patching several boys in search of some
thing Lewis himself finally went out after
q crowbar.
THE CAGE ATTACKED AGAIN.
While half a dozen emissaries of the
would-be lynchers had gone scurrying in
as many different directions after
crowbars. or hammers, or any
thing they could lay their hands on,
| Captain Dawson. Sergeant Kurtz and other
| police officers got Peter Lehr into the lit
! tie officsjust north of the corridor locked
| the. door aud tried to pacify HIM.
| While they we're In there the corri-
dor was practically unguarded. Presently
skinny" Lewis appeared with short,
| heavy hammer. and his first resounding
wback on the jail lock was greeted
with wild yell of delight. That's
| rightn smash 'er imp 'Gt himr
came from the hoarse throaIs of
| the mob. He had not struck dozen blows,
however, until the office door opened and
Captain Dawson and Sergeant Kurtz
| toward the cage. skinny" drop
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silent against the wall. The officers did
| not know who had been doing the pound
| ing and did not care. 1t was enough to
| know that no impression had been made
| upon the lock.
They stood at the cage facing the Gro wd,
| smiling good-naturedly, saying q quiet
| word to each man around them, and the
mob quieted down. Two by two 9TH
or policemen began coming in,
| and each arrival made the crowd little
| quleter.
At this time Sheriff Langenberg appeared
| from the east door, and succeeded in per-
suading Lehr to step outside with him.
| While they were gone Captain Dawson
| started to make little speech.
II feel just as mad at this man as you do,
boys" he began. "but this will"
| Give us the mani" Bring him out"
Where h hep and like cries interrupted the
| captains speech. the confusion finally dying
away in a subdued roar. Then Captain
| Dawson threw up his hand and commanded
silence.
"WilI you listen TO o man talk to youi"
he asked.
| YES" Bring him out.w mo" "Give
the police a chancew were the replies he
got. and Police Surgeon carp was seen
moving In from the door.
| Now. men,n cried DIR. carp when he
could get a hearing. I'VE are all citizens
here. There are laws. Let them take their
course. This man Will probably get the
/ than quick death. If you take
this man out and kill him, some of your
| friends. innocent perhaps. may suffer the
same way by your example. They would
say these gentlemen did this: why
shouldn't wei You see you'd be setting a
| dangerous example"
"Give us the man" Kill the fiend!r and
few like. yells .srested the speech. but it
had good effect
ovERAwED BY THE POLICE.
But much more effective than any speech
was the gathering crowd of blue
| coats who seemed to sprin 2
up in the crowd by magic. They
came in one at a time gathering about
| subdued and it was noticed that the
lynchers were getting out one by one.
while the corridor was filling up with
police, and newspaper men.
This crowds gettin' too d-n auietp'
sung out skinny" Lewis. Wake up. here.
Some o. you fellows bring in the captain las
they had begun to call Lehr.l Go out an
fetch him ini"
A moment later Lehr came pushing in
| from the east door.
I'VE want that man" he cried. 81 tell
you we've got to have him! Get to work
and open that door"
Lehr turned and looked in front of him.
His followers had nearly all melted away.
He was facing solid phalanx of from fif-
teen TO twenty blue coats. He was stunned
for moment. Then he turned and talked
to Yates. At the end of a brief period he
| raised his hand.
Listen to mew he said. in rather cub
dued tones. There's too many police here.
We can't get that --! Let's git outp'
That ended the tasco.
DO you hear your leader!" cried Captain
Dawson. 'Come on, here's the way out
and in a jiffy dozen of the mob had been
| hustled out of the door. Lehr among them
skinny" Lewis was about the last to 60,
and the police were not half SO good
natured with him as they had been at first.
Hurry up" said one of them, harshly.
"Got no use Tor you in here" Gu,
skinny went into the cold night, and
nobody but bIue-coats and reporters was
left in the corricor.
| HOW THE BLUE COATS WERE GATHERED.
The sound of sledge- hammer batterinp
the cell-door awoke the officers TO q sense
of the willingness of the crowd to 10 some
thing desperate, If only allowed play.
Deputy Sheriff Hamilton was at the time
sitting and smoking on a table in the ante.
room. talking with some looker-on who
had crept in. He rushed to the door and
showed the wielder of the sledge
aside. Captain Dawson then sent
word to the police station to
have the patrolmen called in from their
beats, as they should call up at midnight
which is their hour for communicative
with headquarters 1t was then but
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