Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1910-07-13
DETECTIVE SHOOTS BLIND TIGER.
Bar Room Buns and Organized Labor do
lVnChing Stunt.

Newark, o., July 8.-Carl Eth
erington, % years old. employed
Thursday night by the State Anti
Saloon League as a blind tiger
raider, was lynched here at 1924
tonight, following a day of al
most continuous rioting. The
heavy doors of the Licking county
Jail were battered down and Eth.
erington was dragged from his
cell. He was shot, kicked and
bruised before the street a
reached and the finish followed
quickly.
Etherington, early in the even
ing, confessed that he killed Will
liam Howard, proprietor of the
"Last Chance" restaurant and
former chief Of police in a raid
of alleged "speak easies' in a
raiding scuffle at 1:20 this after
noon and narrowly escaped lynch
ing at that time. When news
from the hospital that Howard
had died passed over the city at
9 O'Clock tonight, the fury of
the mob took definite form.
Large battering rams were direct
ed upon the doors of the Licking
county Jail aud the deputies were
p~owerless. The doors fell after
nearly an hours attack.
Howard, it is charged, did not
resist the detectives when they
entered his place Oh the out
skirts of Newark, he, it is said,
however, put his arms about
Esherington, as if to hold him,
whereupon the officer fired a
bullet into Towards head.
Striking Baltimore and Ohio
railway empoyes declare that
Etherington recently came to
Newark as a strike-breaker, and
the il~l-feeling growing out of the
mob after the first taste of blood
resulted in the Staying to-day.
Newark, O., July 9.-Mayor
Herbert Atherton announced that
if the Anti-Saloon League sent
another ra1ding party here he
would declare martial law and
call upon Governor Harmon for
troops"
eff Harmon attempts to re-
move me I will fight him to the
last ditch declared the mayer.
Judge G. NJ. Seward of the COM
mon pleas court stated tonight
that he will order a special grand
Jury Monday to Investigate the
lynching.
The mayor today ordered two
soft" drink establishments clos.
ed until order is restored. Sieve.
raj implicated in the lynching
left the city to-day when it was
learned that Governor Harmon
will return to Ohio Monday to in.
vestigate.
1t developed today that last
nights mob was after two prison
ers instead of one. Frank Anne,
all Italian, charged with assault
ing an iron moulder, was the 9TH
er intended victim. While the
mob was searching the jail for
him he hid under his cot. Ths
lynchers left the second rope
intended for him lying on the
floor of his cell.
Newark, o., July 11,-BefoIe
he had been in Office all hour this
evening J. N. Ankele. the vice
mayor elevated to the office of
chief executive of Newark, follow
ing the suspension Of Mayor
Herbert Anterior by Governor
Harmon, had summarily removed
Chief Of Police Zergelbel and
Police Captain Robert Bell.
He gave as his grounds for re-
moval, the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of
the county option law which re-
sui ed in the !ynchiug of Detec-
tive Carl Etherington Friday
night
He appointed in their stead
Charles Hindel a former deputy
sheriff, as chief, aud Patrolman
Charles Swank as a captain. He
gave thsm orders to commence
the immediate enforcement of all
laws to the letter.
AS soon as the new police off.
Gals had assumed office they
caused the arrest of a second Negro
who is held in connection with
the Friday riots. Vance"
Moore of GAINESVILLE is alleged to
have struck Carl Etherington, the
who was lynched, just prior
to the fatal shooting of William
Moore Is the second
colored rioter arrested.
Mayor Atharton, upon receipt
Of a telegram from Governor Har.
mon late this afternoon, immedi-
ately turned over his Office to An
kele. 81 will, of course, put up a
Defense" he declared, Il have q
witness who will testify that the
local dry leaders refused point
blank to file charges against the
speak easies' with me, because
they did not want me to have the
credit of cleaning up the town. /
will not step down tamely."
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