Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-17
OUTBREAK IN OMAHA.


lenders of the Recent Lynching Placed
In Jail-A Mob Threatens to storm tho
Building, but Desists on Finding That
the Prisoners Had Been Removed.
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 12.-Seven of the
leaders of the mob that lynched Coe
were brought to the Jail from which
they on Saturday night took their VIC
tim, and bowling mob surrounded
the bastile Saturday night and demand
rest are II. q. Bloom, Capt. John
O'Donohoe, II. II. Brandies, Ed Fitz-
gerald, Ed Neaschaeffer, Patrick
OHerne and John Fritz. Bloom is
manager of the Morse Dry Goods Com
pany, the largest retail house in the
city; O'Donohoe is an eX-captain of
police and O'Herne was arrested while
attending the democratic county con-
vention as delegate. The men are
all charged with murder in the first de-
gree and were refused bail.
AS soon as it became known that
they were under arrest crowd gath
cred at the city lookup and demanded
the release of the prisoners. Instead
| Seavey loaded the seven men into a
patrol wagon and rushed them up to
the county Jail. The crowd followed,
and by 1880 p. m. the Jail was sur
rounded and word was sent to County
Attorney Mahoney that unless the men
were released on bail they would be
taken from the Jail by force. Ma
honey replied that under no circum-
stances would the men be released.
The crowd at once began to make
preparations for storrning the Jail.
There were fully 5000 people in the
mob The mob secured big steel rail
and marched to the east door. They
had just started to use it as battering
appeared at the Jail door and
made proposition to the crowd to
have committee appointed to &c
through the Jail and ascertain if the
men wanted were inside. This suited
the crowd, and when the committee re-
ported that FIVE of the men had been
released and the other two had been
taken out of town for safe keeping the
mob dispersed.
County Attorney Mahoney said that
under the laws of Nebraska, any mar
who took part in the lynching wa.
guilty of murder in the first degree anG
punishable by hanging. Mahoney viii
advise the county commissioners tt
offer reward for the arrest and con
viction of the leaders of the mob. He
did not blame the county and city
officers, but thought that if a squad O
police had been detailed when the mol
first gathered all trouble would hav,
been avoided. Omaha and Douglas
county would be compelled to take holt
of the matter ami ferret out the perpe
traitors of what he called cowardl,
and cold-blooded murder.
Jailer Horrigan in speaking of tn,
case said that Coe was alive when h,
was pulled through the window ant
into the open air, but before he was L
feet from the Jail he was dead. Ever,
spark of life had left his carcass, as III
was tramped upon by hundreds of men
while others at the end of the rop
pulled the body almost limb from limb
Scarcely had the body of Coe stoppe,
its convulsive swaying Friday before
was known that the negro's victim wa
not dead and in no danger of death
1t is claimed that the announcement
the papers gave of the death of tn
child was merely an incident in tn
plot to provoke mob violence by tn
friends of the victims family. Crap
had been attached to the door of tn
fanny, and apparently preparation
were being made for the childs funeral