The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-09
Newark the Scene Of Wild Dis
order Following Shooting Of
Saloon Man by Detective ot
the DRY Forces.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
WITNESS THE HANGING
Man Was Taken from Jail Att
er Doors Had Been Battered
in and Strung Up on Tele-
graph Pole IN the Street.

Newark. o., July 0.-The etAk0 ant1s
league saloon interference and disrs.
gard Of the local authorities u ~
sponsible for the lynching of Earl
Etherington here last night. This
was the statement Of Mayor Herhsrt
Atherton OF this city Saturday morn.
ing.
Etherington was seized BY N 1nfur.
lated mob at 1885 last night The
riot was the result Of the shooting oe
William Howard. . restaurant pro-
prietor. by Dtherington who attsmpt-
ed to work the search and seizure law
on the Howard place.
A mob OF 5000 infuriated citisena.
men. women and childrsG clamorsd
about the county Jail demanding the
life of the dry" detective altar. ho
was locked up. Steel railroad rails
were used to batter In the heavy iron
doors Of the jail.
The police were helpless before the
angry crowds. ShGri6 William Llnke
called for the state militia, but 10
fore It could be assembled the ysveng.
ers had seized Etherington and drag
ged him from his cell.
A rope was placed about his neck
while he cried piteously and baGgeA
for mercy, 4 didn't mean To Do II Oh.
what will mother say when aAs heass
this"
Brutally the sursing mob puIIed tne
helpless victim down the stairway
from his cell and ont into the street.
Moaning with pain and pleading for.
mercy Etherington was DRAGGED two
blocks through tho public park.
At the corner Of Park Place and 6ec-
ond street cries Of hang him here
halted the mob. A man climbed
quickly up Z pole and hooked tho rop0
over foot piece.
Swaying and staggering ii his tor
ture, Etherington begged for = LAST
word. Il want to warn other fellows
against this kind Of . life; this would
not have happened II hadn't been
and taken this Job" ho
said, send my love to mother ana
tell her died in the the''--hi his
words were lost In death rattle -
the rope was pulled taut.
The lynching resulted from = raid
OF twenty detectives Of the Antisaioo0
league on thirst parlors here. "a Hals.
the leader OF the detectives was badly
cut and bruised when assaulted By
mob. Jim Henderson. another detect
i've. received the same treatment
Henry Barrow, strike e6roakof.
was shot in the arm In IN alterca13oa
growing out Of the raids. An un1mOwn
man said to be . strfkebreaksr wAs
chased by crowd Of rioters and shot
In the leg. The man dived Into :
plate glass window and made III -
cape through store.
All OF the prisoners n tho jail w0ra
set at Liberty when the mob bsol1o
down the cell doors with sledes hA1n-
mers. Etherington when he heard tho'
mob in the corridor Get fire 70 his cost
and attempted to bury his head n tho
flames.
He was shot IN the back ol the neck
the bullet plowinE . deep furrow and
passing out.
The fire waf extinguished " his
own blood. These were the only shoksi
fired by the mob after breaking intO
the jail.
Etheringtnu was allowed TO hang n
the public square for half N hour -
fore cut down by the sheriff. 4 telS-
gram was received BY the sherfff from
the mob victims father, HsTtwell Eth
erington, Of WfIlisburx, Ky, asking
him to hold the body.