The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
A WHITE LAD y YEARS old,
Detective Shot Blind Tiger Keeper
and Friends of Dead Man Storm
Jail, Take Prisoner Out and Swing
Him With Rope in Presence of
Hundreds, Including Women and
Children-Troops Ordered to Scene.

anSton, ~ years old, employed by the
State Anti--Saloon League as a blind
:iger raider, was lynched here at 10 :35
Friday night, following day of al
most continuous rioting. The heavy
doors of the Licking county Jail Se e
battered down and Etherington Wcs
dragged from his cell. He was shot,
kicked and bruised before the street
was reached and the finish folio ..et
quickly.
Etherington, early in the evening
confessed he killed William Howard,
proprietor of the "Last Chance" res
taurant, and former chief of police e,
in a raiding of alleged "speak
'easies,' In a raiding scuffie Friday
afternoon and narrowly escaped
lynching at that time. When news
from the hospital that Howard had
died passed over the city the fury
of the mob took definite form. Large
battering rams were directed upon
the doors of the Licking county
Jail, and the deputies were powerless.
The doors fell after nearly an hours
attack
Crying piteously, Etherington, a
-curlyheaded Kentuckian, who has
been serving as a strikebreaker since
he was released from marine service
three months ago, was dragged forth.
81 didn't mean to do it," he walled
His cries fell upon deaf ears.
Fearing that the mob spirit would
not be satisfied by one victim, Sheriff
Linke Immediately asked Adjutan'
General Weybrecht for troops to pre-
tect six other "dry raiders" held
the city prison, in another section :
the town. A hurried guard was
thrown out in their defense.
Etherington S last moments while
he heard the mob battering down the
doors, were spent in praying and writ
ing note to his parents, farmers re-
siding near Willisburg, Ky.
"What will mother say when she
hears Of this?" he kept moaning to
the jailer.
Howard, it is charged, did not re-
3ist the detectives when they entered
his place on the outskirts Of Newark
He, it is said, however, put his arms
about Etherington, as if to hold him,
whereupon the officer fred bullet
into Howard g head.
Striking Baltimore & Ohio Railway
employees declare that Etherington re-
Gently came to Newark as a strike
breaker, and the ill-feeling growing
out of the strike was intensified by
the Staying Friday.
The detectives arrived Friday morn
ing with search and seizure warrants
ha g
nearby village. One of the fist sa-
looms visited was that Of Louis Bolton,
where bartender, Edward McKenna,
was hit over the head with brass
knuckles. The detective who hit him
:, was pursued by crowd that quickly
assembled. The detective was rescued
by the police with difficulty. The of.
f1cers with their prisoner were follow
ed by the mob to the Jail.
Licking county, Of which Newark
is the county seat, is dry under the
Rose local option law but Anti.
Saloon League officials declare that
the law is not enforced. Wayne B.
Wheeler, State superintendent of the
league. at Columbus, declared that
fridays situation was brought about
by alleged negligence on the part Of
Mayor Atherton of Newark in not up
holding the law. Wheeler said that
the detectives sent to Newark were
from C'onsland.
W yhe mob was battering down
rss, Etherington was in his
y ;hn attempt to commit suicide
he ,Eered his head in his cot and
set tfe tilt. He was caught in time.
As Etherington mounted the block
'ady for the swing he was asked to
T lake speech.
81 want to warn all young fellows
not to try to make living the way
/ have done-by strike-breaking and
taking jobs like this ne declared.
81 had better have worked and I
wouldn't be here now."
The swing of the rope cut him
: short He hung there for an hour,
while the crowd quietly left. After
the first excitement there was no dis
order. At the finish there were hun
\ dreds of women and little children
In the crowd, all eager to accomplish
his death. No member of the mob
was masked and no attempt was made
to conceal their identity.