Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-09
DRAG DETECTIVE
. FROM CELL, BEAT
AND LYNCH HIM.
Officer Kills Cafe Proprietor in a
Raid on Blind Tiger at
Newark, Ohio
SHERIFF CALLS FOR TROOPS
Citizens Fear Mob Will Storm Jail
in Effort to Capture
Other Raiders
SHERIFF CALLS FOR TROOPS
ASSOCIATED Press1


NEWARK, Ohio, 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 1926 o'clock to-
night following a day of almost con-
tinuous rioting. The heavy doors of
the Licking county Jail were battered
| and Etherington was dragged from his
cell. He was shot, kicked and bruised
| before the street was reached and the
finish was quick.
Etherington early in the evening con-
fessed he killed William Howard, pro-
| prietor Of the Last Chance restaurant,
and former chief of police, in raid of
alleged "speak easies" this afternoon
and narrowly escaped lynching at that
| time. When news was brought from
| the hospital that Howard had died at
9 o'clock tonight the fury of the mob
took definite form. Large batterlng
lrams were directed against the doors
of the Licking county jail and the
deputies were powerless. The doors
fell after an hours work.
Crying piteously, Etberington, curly
headed Kentuckian, who had been
serving as a strike breaker since he
| was released from the marine service
three months ago, was dragged forth.
"I didn't mean to do It," he walled.
His cries fell on deaf ears.
SHERIFF DEMANDS TROOPS
Fearing the mob spirit would not be
satisfied by one victim, Sheriff Linke
Immediately asked Adjutant General
Weybricht 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 1t
is feared that they will storm the city
prison before morning.
Etherington's last moments, while he
heard the mob battering the doors,
were passed in prayer and writing
| note to his farents, farmers, residing
near Willisburg, KY.
what will mother say when she
hears OF this7" he kept moaning to the
| jailers.
Howard, it is charged, did not resist
the detectives when they entered his
place on the outskirts of the city, but
put his arms about Etherington as II
| to hold him, whereupon the officer
| fired a bullet into his head.
Striking Baltimore e. Ohio railway
employees declared Etherington recently
came to Newark as a strikebreaker and
the Ill feeling growing out of the strike
intensified that due to the raid to-
day. Tonight strikebreaker was pur-
blocks. He saved himself by jump
| ing through the window of laun-
dry.
The detectives who made the raid
arrived this morning with search war
rants from the mayor of Granville, the
nearby village.
One of the first saloons visited was
that of Louis Bolton, where Edward
| McKenna, a bartender, was hit on the
with hra xnnnklPS. de16c-
| tive who hit him was pursued by
crowd and was rescued with difficulty
bv the police. The officers with their
prisoner were followed by the mob to
the Jail.
LIQUOR LAW DEAD LETTER
Licking county, Of which Newark is
the county seat, is dry under the Rose
local option law, but Antl-Saloon
league officials say the law Is not en-
forced. Wayne B. Wheeler, state sup
erintendent OF the league, In an inter-
view at Columbus tonight, declared TO-
days situation was brought about
through the negligence on the part or
Mayor Atherton.
While the mob was battering down
the doors Etherington was in a cell.
in an attempt to commit suicide he
smothered his head in his coat and set
fire to it.
In the melee as the mob was leaving
the Jail eight prisoners, held for petty
offenses, escaped. One refused to
| leave.
AS Etherington mounted the block
ready for the swing he was asked to
make a speech.
II want to warn all young fellows
not to try to make living the way
have done, by strike breaking, and taxi
ing jobs like this" he declared. Il had
| better not have worked or l would not
be here now"
The swing of the rope cut him short.
He hung there for an hour, while the
crowd left quietly. After the first ex-
citement there was no disorder. Hun
dreds of women and little children were
in the crowd, all eager to witness his
death No member of the mob was
masked, and no attempt was made to
conceal their identity. The leaders were
personal friends of Howard.
After the body has dangled from the
pole for an hour, swinging before the
gaze of a quiet and sobered crowd
which slowly melted away, the rope
broke. The city ambulance rolled up
and the limp form was loaded in and
hauled to the city morgue.
An hour later the city was absolutely
quiet, with little danger Of further dis
turbance.