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officers, armed with warrants made
out by the mayor of Granville. When
Hale, bp simply drawing his gun af-
ter he had been hit with brass knuck-
les in Bottoms saloon, arrested Nc
KEENAN,, Bottoms head bartender and
one thug, he took his prisoners to
the Licking county Jail. Bolton has
passed the word along. When the
detectives and their prisoners reach
ed the jail, the sheriff refused to ad-
NIT the prisoners. saying he did not
honor the warrants issued by the
mayor of Granville.
1t did not take the Cleveland de-
5ectives in the employ of the Anti
Saloon league long to see that their
work of serving warrants could moi
be done without rioting. At abou'
noon, the mayor, it is said, sent
word out to the saloons to serve
free drinks to all habituees. In {
short time the regulars and a large
crowd of youngsters, minors, were
gettinS desperately drunk, fighting
drunk. They were developing intt
anarchists. forgetting all law anc
order and approaching the non-in-
reference of the city police, The
drunken they got, the more the
wanted to get their hands upon the
outside detectives. Etherington left
on a local car for west Newark,
where he planned to take an interur-
ban car for Columbus. Some of
Bottoms gang telephoned out tc
William Howard, keeper of a saloon
at West Newark and a former police
captain, to stop and assault Ether
ington. Some "wets" followed the
young fellow out on the car, too
When Etherington alighted from the
car at West Newark he was set up
on and beaten. He escaped from
the crowd of hangers-on from How
ards saloon and jumped on the run
ming board of an automobile owned
and driven by a Newark physician
Etherington begged to be taken to g
place of safety. For answer, one Of
the men in the machine pushed the
detective off the running board, and
he was Immediately bounced upon
by the Howard thugs.
BEATING ETHERINGTON
A big negro got hold of the Ken
tuckian and knocked several of the
detectives teeth loose, the assailant
cutting his knuckles badly. Then
Howard, whose wife had tried to
keep him from the fray, got hold of
the detective and used some of the
tactics he used to use on the police
force. Etherington, badly used up
bA this time, saw he was in an ex-
IRENE situation, drew his gun while
Howard was on top of him, fired,
and gave Howard the shot which
ended his life. | tell this, because
it never has been told truthfully be-
fore in any newspaper and because
it goes to show the temper of the
saloon element regarding the detec-
tives from out of town. Other de-
tectives would have been used in
the same manner in which Ether
ington was treated had they been
caught The fact that they made
good their escape, saved Newark
from greater disgrace than it now
suffers. Mrs. Howard, wife of Ether
ington'S victim, says that her hus-
b and deliberately started out to get
Etherington, and her statements
have put to nought any statements
which purport to say that Ethering-
ton did not fire the shot which killed
Howard in self defense. The man
the hoOdlumS of Newark lynched
was absolutely innocent of any crime.
This was known to the hoodlums
when they broke into the Jail, for
some of the men who assaulted
EtheringtOn at West Newark were
in the mob which showed up the
cowardice of Sheriff William Linke
and the awful, criminal neglect Of
Mayor Herbert Anterior, who could