The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-07-14
LYNCH|NC IN OHIO
JAIL DOORS BATTERED DOWN
AND YOUTH Is QUICKLY
STRUNG UP.
WASRAIDING BLIND TIGER
Victim, a kentuckian, Killed Pro-
prietor of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Are Finally Quieted, After
Day of Riotina.

Newark, Ohio-Carl Etherington
22 years old, employed by the
State Anti-Saloon league as a blind
tiger raider, was lynched here at 1879
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 be-
fore the street was reached, and the
finish followed quickly.
Etherington early in the evening,
confessed he had killed William How
ard. proprietor of the Last Chance"
restaurant and former chief of police,
in a scuffle during a raid OF alleged
"speak-easies," at 1890 in the morn
ing, and narrowly escaped lynching
at that time. When news from h
hospital that Howard had died passed
out, the fury of the mob took definite
form.
Large b~attering rams were directed
upon the doors of the Jail and the
deputies were powerless, The doors
fell after nearly an hours attack. Cry
ing %piteously, Etherington, a curly
headed Kentuckian, who has been
serving as a strike breaker since he
was released from marine service
three months ago, was dragged forth.
Il did not mean to do it," he walled.
His cries fell upon deaf ears.
Further Trouble Feared.
Fearing that the mob spirit would
not be satisfied by one victim Sheriff
Linke asked Adjutant General Wei
brecht 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
defense. The mob, after the first
taste of blood seemed to quiet, but
it was feared that they would storm
the city prison before the night was
finished.
Etherington's last moments, while
he heard the mob battering down the
door, were spent in praying and writ
ing a note to his parents, farmers re-
siding near Willisburg, Ka.
What will mother say when she
hears of this?" he kept moaning to
the jailer.
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
AS the mob was leaving the Jail
eight prisoners, held for petty offenses
escaped. One refused to leave.
When Etherington mounted the block
ready for the swing he was asked to
make a speech.
Il want to warn all o young fell
lows not to try to make a living the
way l have done-by strike-breaking
and taking jobs like this" he said.
Il should have worked, and l would
not be here now"
Rope Cuts Him Short.
The swing Of the rope cut him short.
He hung for an hour, while the crowd
quietly left. After the first excitement
there was no disorder. At the finish
there were hundreds Of women and
little children in the crowd, all eager
to accomplish his death. No member
Of the mob was masked, and no at
tempt was made to conceal identity.
The leaders were personal friends Of
the dead man.
Howard, it is charged, did not re-
sist the detectives when they entered
his place on the outskirts of the city.
He it is said, however, put his arms
about Etherington, 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 Ross
local option law, but anti-saloon league
officials say the law is not enforced.
Wayne b. Wheeler, state superinten-
dent of the league, in an interview at
Columbus, said the situation was
brought bout by negligence In not
upholding the law. Wheeler said de-
tectives brought here were secured at
Cleveland.
After the body of Etherington had
dangled from the pole for an hour,
swinging before the gaze of a quiet
and sobered crowd which slowly melt
ed away, the rope broke under the
weight of the body.
An hour later the city was absolute.
ly quiet with little chance of further
disturbance. The other dry" detect.
ives in the city prison are safe for the
present.