The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09
A Young Detective Is Lynched
at Newark, Ohio.
He Was in the Employ of the
Anti-saloon League.
LED RAID ON A JOINT.
And in Scuffle Shot the Pro-
prietor of the Place.
The Lynchers Worked at the
Jail Two Hours.

Newark, O., July 9.-Although Ad-
jutant General Weybrecht and men, .
bers of his staff are here ready to di-
rect the bringing of state troops in
case of need, it is not believed that
further trouble will follow the lynch
ing last night of Detective Carl Ether
ington and the previous killing by the
detective of William Howard, former
chief of police. The double tragedy
and the part in it that was played by
500 citizens of this town has sobered
the people. Extra police guards and
deputy sheriffs are believed by Gener-
al Weybrecht to be sufficient to han
die the situation.
Carl Etherington, 22 years old. en-
ployed Thursday night by the State
Anti-Saloon league as a blind tiger
raider, was lynched following a day
of almost continuous rioting. The
heavy doors of the Licking county Jail
were battered down and Etherington
was dragged from his cell He was
shot, kicked and bruised before the
street was reached and the finish fol-
lowed quickly.
Etherington early in the evening
confessed he killed William Howard,
proprietor of the Last Chance restaur-
ant, and former chief of police, in a
raid of alleged speak easies" and
narrowly escaped 1ynching at that
time. When news from the hospital
that Howard died passed over the city
the fury of the mob took definite
form. Large battering rams were di-
| rected upon the doors of the Licking
county jail and the deputies were pow
erless. The doors fell after nearly an
hours attack. Crying piteously.
Etherington, curly headed Kentuck-
| ian, who had been serving as strike
breaker since he was released from
| marine service three months ago, was
dragged forth.
.''I did not mean to do it, he walled.
| His cries fell on deaf ears
| Fearing the mob spirit would not
be satisfied by one victim, Sheriff
| Linke Immediately asked Adjutant
General Weybrecht for troops to pro-
ttect six other dry raiders held at
the city prison in another section OF
the town. hurried guard was
thrown out in their defense. The mob,
after the first taste of blood, seemed
to quiet
Etherington's last moments, while
he ehard the mob battering down the
doors, were spent in prayer 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 resist
| the detectives when they entered his
| place on the outskirts of the city. He
| it is said, put his arms about Ether
ington as if to hold him, whereupon
the officer fired a bullet into his head.
| Licking county of which Newark
is the county seat, is dry under the
Rose local option law, but the Anti
| saloon league officials declare the law
| is not enforced. Wayne B. Wheeler,
state superintendent of the league.
| in an interview at Columbus, declared
| the situation was brought about by al
legged negligence on the part of Mayor
Atherton in not upholding the law.
OfficiaIs Are Blamed.
Newark, o., July 9.-Adjutant Gem
eral Weybrecht says Licking county
officials, especially William Linke, are
responsible for the 1ynching of Carl
so report to Governor Harmon.
''The lynching easily could have
been prevented" says General Wey-
brecht. 1.-The established fact that the
tells the story of negligence If troops
had been called for when they should
have been. the state of Chico would
not now be disgraced."
Sheriff Linke did not call out the
Newark company of the Ohio national
guard, company G, of the Fourth regi-
ment. Captain Priest says he was in
formed that it was not even necessary
to have men at the armory in case of
| emergency.
The Eubanks anti-mob law pasesd
at the last session of the Legislature
provides for immediate suspension OF
the sheriff in case where he does not
protect prisoners in his custody. Sus-
pension is followed by a hearing be-
fore the governor.
Fully 500 people of the town who,
unmasked, last night aided in this
Hanging of Etherington, an anti-saloon
detective, face a grand jury investi-
gaton. The authorities have caused
lit to be known that such an investi-
cation will be made as soon as the
grand jury shall next convene.
In the meantime preparations are
being made for a great funeral demon
stration for William Howard, former
chief of police, who died of wound
administered by Etherington in the
{ l"dry'' raid that ended so disastrously
, last night.
J The men who requested the bring
: ing of the detectives here are not re-
: garded as being in danger, but the po-
, | lice have arranged to give them spe-
cial protection until the feeling has
. died away.
al 1t will take days to bring the town,
E with its many unemployed. back to its
. normal condition.