New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-09
''DRY" DETECTIVE
LYNCHED IN OHIO
Discharged Marine Begs in Vain
For His Life as Mob
Enters Jaik
HAD KILLED A POLICEMAN
Outside Detectives Sent to New.
ark by Anti Saloon League
in Attempt to Close
Blind Tigers.

ton, twenty-five years DID, employed on
Thursday night by the State Anti-Saloon
League a blind tiger raider, was
lynched here at 1875 O'Clock tonight,
following a day of almost continuous
rfoting.
The heavy doors of the Licking County
Jail were battered down and Ethering-
ton was dragged from his cell. He was
shot, kicked and bruised before the street
was reached and the finish followed
quickly. He was put to death in the
public square.
Etherington early in the evening con-
fessed that he killed William Howard,
proprietor of the Last Chance restaurant
and former Chief of Police, in a raiding
scuff1e at 100 o'clock this afternoon.
He narrowly escaped lynching at that
time
When news from the hospital that
Howard had died became generally
known, at 8 o'clock tonight the fury of
the mob took definite form. Large bat
tering rams We're directed upon the
doors of the Licking County Jail. and
the deputies were powerless. The doors
Iell dlteI uedIly Ill IlOuI dlldCh-
Vain Attempt at Suicide.
While the mob was battering down
the doors, Etherington was in his cell.
In an attempt to commit suicide he
smothered his head in his coat and set
fire to it. He was caught in time.
Etheringtons last moments, while he
heard the mob battering down the doors,
were spent in praying and writing a note
to his parents, who are farmers living
near Willisburg, KY.
What will mother say when she hears
of this?" he kept moaning to the jailer.
| Crying piteously, Etherington, curly
headed Kentuckian, who had been work
| ing as a strike breaker since he finished
! an enlistment in the United States
Marine Corps three months ago, was
dragged forth.
L didn't mean to do it, he walled
His cries fell upon deaf ears.
AS Etherington mounted the block,
ready to be hanged. he was asked TO
make a speech.
'1 want TO warn all young fellows not
| to try to make a living the way I have
| dcne-by strike breaking and taking
Jobs like this" he declared. II had
| better have worked, and I would not be
| here now
| The swing of the rope cut him short.
He hung there for an hour, while the
crowd quietly departed. After the first
| excitement there was no disorder. At
the finish there were hundreds of women
!
eager to witness his death. No member
of the mob was masked, and no at
tempt was made to conceal their iden-
| tity. The leaders were personal friends
| of the dead man.
| In the confusion as the mob was leav-
ing the Jail eight prisoners. held for
petty offences, escaped. One refused to
| go.
| Fearing that the mob spirit would not
be satisfied by one victim, Sheriff L1nke
| Immediately asked Adjutant General
Wevbrecht for troops to protect six other
dry" raiders held at the city prison, in
another section of the town. A hurried
guard was thrown out in their defence
The mob, after the first taste Of blood
| seemed to quiet, but it was feared thai
il would storm the city prison before
morning.
Several reporters leaving the Jail after
seeing the detectives, earlier IN the even
ing we're attacked by the mob ana
roughly handled. One reporter finally
esta bIished his identity and saved his
| companions.
Howard. it is charged. did not resist
the detectives when they entered MS
Mace on the outskirts of Newark 1t is
said however, that he put his arms
ahout Etherington, as If to hold him.
ubereupon the officer fired a bullet into
| Towards head.
Baltimore & Ohio Strikers Aroused
Striking Baltimore & Ohio Railway
enonloves were aware Etherington re-
cen+lv came to Newark as strike
! breaker. and the i'll feeling growing out
of the strike intensified that due to the
| shaving to-day.
Tonight a strikebreaker was pursued
through the streets for several squares.
He saved himself by jumping through
the window of a laundry.
The detectives arrived tIlS MOI
| with search and seizure warrants pro-
| c,,red from the Mayor of Granville, a
| nearby village. one of the first saloons
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 a
| crowd that quickly assembled. The de-
| +ective was rescued by the police with
difficulty. The officers with their pris-
oner were followed 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 en-
! forced. Wayne B. Wheeler, state super
| in.endent Of the league at Columbia, de-
clared tonight that to-days situation
was brought about by alleged negligence
on the part of Mayor Anterior of New
arl, i'm not unfolding the law. Wheeler
said that the detectives sent to Newark
TODAY we're from Cleveland.
| Wayne B. Wheeler. state superin-
,endent of the Anti-Saloon League. said
tonight sthat the men who made the
raids to-day were not in the direct en-
| nIovunent of the state league. They
were hired by the Licking County Law
Enforcement League, he said. through a