The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-09
Start Riot By Hitting Bartender
Over Head With BrassKnuCkles.
AssaiIant Rescued By Police
After Battle With Mob, Who
Pursue Prisoner TO Jail Doors.
Dead SalOOnist Did Not Resist
Arrest But Was Shot While
Arguing With Officer death
Later Aroused People to Frenzy.

Newark, o., July 0. - Carl Ether
ington OF Harrodsburg. KY, a detec-
tive In the employ of the Anti-Saloon
league, was taken from the county
jail by a mob of $500 persons and
strung up to a pole in front of the
Western Union telegraph office. Eth
erington was accused of the murder
OF William Howard. alleged saloonist.
The mob had been surrounding the
Jail all day, determined on getting
Etherington and other detectives.
First the two big outer doors were
battered down, and then the sheriff
called for troops. The sheriff at
tempted futilely to prevent the mob
from getting into the cell block. Two
more iron doors fell beneath strenu-
out blows, and the prisoner was In
the hands Of the mob.
Mayor Atherton made an appeal to
the mob to disperse, but his words OF
entreaty fell upon deaf ears.
Etherington was special detec-
tive engaged by the Law Enforce
ment league of Licking county and
brought here with 10 other special
officers to raid local saloons alleged
to be violating the Rose local option
law.
The detectives who made the raids
arrived here armed with search and
seizure warrants secured from the
mayor of Granville, nearby village.
One OF the first saloons visited was
that of Louis Bolton, where bar
tender, Edward McKenna, was hit
over the head with brass knuckles.
The detective who hit him was pur-
sued by a crowd Of people who quick
ly assembled and he was rescued by
the police with difficulty. The officers
with their prisoner were followed by
the mob to the Jail.
Howard's death greatly inflamed
the mob, which for hours had been
hanging about the jail. Howard, It is
charged, did not resist the detectives
when they entered his place on the
outskirts OF the city. He is said
however, to have put his arms about
Etherington, as II to hold him.
whereupon the officer fired bullet
into his head.
Striking B. G. o. railway employees
declare that Etherington recently
came to Newark as a strlkebreaker
and the III feeling growing out of the
strike intensified that due TO the
raids. A strikebreaker was pursued
through the streets for several
squares. He saved himself by jump,
Ing through the window of laundry
Ten OF the other detectives were
placed In jail for protection from the
populace. A group of newspaper men
leaving the Jail after interviewing
the detectives were set upon by the
mob and were being roughly handled
when one established his identity by
means of secret society emblem
and then saved his companions from
further mistreatment,
Licking county, of which Newark
Is the county seat, is dry Under the
Rose local option law, but Anti.Sa
loon league officials declare the law
Is not enforced. Wayne b. Wheeler
state superintendent of the league, al
Columbus, declared the situation was
brought about by alleged negligence
-
Newark In not upholding the law
Wheeler said the detectives sent tl
Newark wero from Cleveland.
Etherington's last moments. while
be heard the mob battering down the
doors. were spent in prayer and In
writing note to his parents, farm
ers, residing near Willisburg, Ky
"What will mother say when she
hears OF this?" he kept moaning te
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