The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-07-09
Antl-SalOOn League Detective
the Victim
HAD SHOT NEWARK MAN
Carl Etherington, Aged %, Cried Pite-
Ously for Mercy, But the Mob
Was Deaf to His Appeals
Last Night.

Newark, Ohio, July 9.-carI Ether
ington, p years old. employed Thurs
day night BY the Anti-Saloon league
as blind tiger raider, was lynehed
here at 1885 last night following a day
Of almost continuous rioting. The heavy
doors Of the Licking county Jail were
battered down and Etherington was
dragged from his cell. He was shot
kicked and bruised before the street
was reached and the finish followed
quickly.
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 easiesp during a scuille
at 1850 yesterday afternoon and mar.
rowly escaped lynching at that time.
When news from the hospital that How
ard had died passed over the city at 0
o'clock last night the fury Of the mob
took definite form.
Large battering rams were directed up-
on the doors Of the Licking county Jail
and the deputies we're powerless. The
doors fell after nearly an hours at
tack.
Crying piteously Etherincton. curly
headed Kentuckyian, who had been serv.
ing as strikebreaker since he was re-
leased from marine service three months
ago, was dragged forth i didn't mean
TO do it, be walked, but his cries fell
upon deaf ears.
Fearing That the mob spirit would not
be satisfied with one victim Sheriff Links
Immediately asked Adiutant General
Weymecht for troops to protect six 9th
er dry" raiders held at the city pris- /
on, in another section OF the town. A l
hurried guard was thrown out In their
defense The mob, after the first taste (
Of blood seemed to quiet, it was feared I
that the rioters would storm The city /
prison before the night WAS finished
Eheriagtons last moments while ia
hcere lie mob battering down the doors,
Nore spent ia praying and writing a note
t. hH parents farmers rssssiina ussr
Williamsburg ~
II il said that when the detectives
entered Howard's place on the outskirts I
OF Newark he put his arms about Eth 4
erington, as If to hold him, whereupon /
The officer fired a bullet into Howard's
head.
Wayne B. Wheeler, state superintend-
ent of the Anti.saloon league, said that
Che men VINO made the Newark raids
yesterday were not in the direct employ
ment Of the state league. They were
hired by the Licking County Law En-
forcement league, he said, through a
Cleveland agency, OF which ex-Repre-
parta tive piarca D Mptxoer il Dronriptar
AT Granville, Licking county, 20 men
were sworn in as special officers, and
furnished with warrant to serve under
She Woods search and seizure act. 1t
was planned to raid Eve Newark places,
where liquors were sold illegally Super.
sntendent Wheeler said he knew nothing
concerning the special officers nor their
home addresses.
At Last the Rope Broke.
After Etherington's body had dangled
for an hour, before quiet and sobered
crowd, which slowly melted away. the
rope broke under the weight of the body.
The city ambulance came up packed the
limp form aboard aud hauled 1t to the
city morgue.
An hour later, the city was absolutely
quiet, with little chance Of further dis
turbance The other "drya detectives in
the city prison are safe for the present.
Sheriff William Linke, during the at
tack on his residence adjoining the Jail,
frantically tried to have the governors
Office answer his telephone in the appeal
for the troops. He was informed bv
Secretary Long, he says, that the state
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