Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-07-28

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der and some of them have appear
ed this week before the special Grand
jury and indictments have been
found against them. An eye wit
ness to the breaking of the Jail >anC
the lynching of the detective, a mar
whose testimony will have great
weight with the Grand jury, de-
scribed briefly the string even
He told the story to me as follows:
l left the vaudeville theatre earl,
and heard Immediately that a mob
had gathered at the Jail for the pur-
pose of getting Etherington. Invent
there Immediately with the INTEL
ton of Offering my assistance to tie
officials. mixed into the Grove ,
and ! found that the policemen
were looking upon the affair as a
lark, making no attempt whatsoever
to keep the hoodIums in order. As
| made my way up to the head Ct
the mob and near to the side doc.
Of the Jail, / came across many men
young middle-aged, and old, men CT
the saloon gangs, under the influence
Of liquor, wild-eyed. desperate, the
blood-lust showing plainly in their
speech, and the craving foT some
unusual excitement overpowering
their minds. They were men alb
solutely bereft of the refinements OF
civilization, men barbaric, beastly,
almost tiger-like in their desire for
blood. The mayer tried to quiet
this mob. People back in the street
gave away at his words. many OF
them going home, but the hoodlooms
the whisky-crazed toughs gave no
ear the words of the mayor, jeerine
him before he had finished a spine
less harangue. Then an old negro
addressed the mob in a strong voice
telling the ring leaders to get busy
with their work or to 90 home. His
speech put some energy into the
gangsters, and they attacked the
Jail door with a telephone pole.
The door was battered in. bold
drink-mad men rushed up mar.
row staircase, which could have beer
held by one man with gun against
a thousand men, broke into the cell
of Etherington, and dragged there
from the defenselesS young man
This work was done by very few of
the mob, for the passageways of the
jail would admit but few. Then the
victim of the most brutal lynching
of white man on record was brought
out A youngSter was sent up a
telephone pole to stretch a rope ov-
er one of the bars. EtheringtOn said:
Tell my mother | died doing my
duty, and, before he had the words
fairly put of his mouth and was
about to speak further, fiend hit
him over the head with a sledge
hammer, knocking him senseless
He was then hanged, his body dang
ling for awhile midway up the pole
All this time dry" detectives, friends
and fellow workers of Etherington
unable to raise hand in his de-
Tense, mingled with the mob, taking
the names of the policemen who
refused to raise a hand to save the
mulilated youngster, one of whose
eyes had been gouged out by his
tormentors. At no time was
the least official protest made to the
jail-break or the lynching. One of
fetal with a little more nerve than
is possessed by a jelly fish could
have stopped the brutal outrage,
but there was not man of that de-
scription in Newark during that time
although the mayor was about, the
sheriff in the Jail, and the policemen
everywhere. The lyncherS, blood
thirsty, after the police had cut down
the corpse of EtheringtOn, repaired
to the illegal saloons, drank deep of
murderOus whisky, and kept up the
orgy all night, awakening the next
day to find Newark the most dis
graced city in the country, and the
saloons, at Bottoms bidding, doing
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