Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
Militia Officer Says New
ark Jail Was Poorly
Guarded.
TOWN IS NOW QUIET
Hanging of Detective of Anti
Saloon League to Bring
an Investigation.

Columbus, July e.-The announce
nnent was made here today by Ed Hale,
who headed the detective force of the
AntI-SaIoon league at Newark In the
rdiding of the "soft drink" saloons
there, that he is gathering an armed
force of so detectives here and has Sc
cured warrants which he intends to
serve on Mayor Atherton and Sheriff
Linke at Newark this afternoon for not
unfolding the local option law and for
aiding the Iynchers.
Governor Harmon will leave his
Summer home at CharIeVoix Mich. for
this city at once to take charge of the
situation.
BIames the Sheriff.
Adjutant General Weybrecht says
Licking county officials, particularly
Sheriff Lincke, are responsible for the
lynching of Etherington last night. He
will so report to Governor Harmon.
THE lynching easily could have
teen prevented" says the general.
The established fact that the mob
worked at the Jail two hours tells the
story of negligence. If troops had
been called for when they should have
been Ohio would not now be dis
graced"
600 Face Grand Jury.
Fully 500 people who aided the hang
ing face a grand jury investigation
The authorities have caused it to be
Known such an investigation will be
Irade.
No Troops Needed.
Newark. Ohio, July 9.-AIthough
Adjutant General Weybrecht and
members of his staff are here ready
to direct the bringing of state troops
in case of need, it is not believed
further trouble will follow the
lynching last night OF Detective Carl
Etherington and the previous killing
by detectives of William Howard,
former chief of police.
People SObercd.
The double tragedy and the part
that was played in it by 800 Of the
towns leading citizens, has sobered
the people. Extra police and deputies
are believed by Weybrecht sufficient
TO handle the situation. An autopsy
on Ethington's body shows death was
due to strangulation by hanging.
5000 in Mob.
Newark, Ohio, July "a mob of
more than 5000 persons last night took
Charles Etherington, an anti-saloon de-
tective, from jail and hanged him in
the public square. Adjutant General
WeybTecht at Columbus ordered out a
company of the 4th regiment and troop
3 in response to an appeal for aid tel
ephoned by Sheriff Linke.
The mob got into the jail through
window and found Etherington despite
the efforts of the sheriff to hide him.
Two iron doors baffled an attempt to
force an entrance with sledge ham
mers.
Etherington, against whom the ami
mostly of the crowd was aroused es-
pecially, had killed William Howard,
saloon keeper and former policeman,
as the result of raids on soft drink
saloons made in the afternoon by de
tectives employed by the Ohio Anti
Saloon league, as a result of which 10
detectives were arrested
Best Citizens i'm Mob.
The mob, which is said to have in
cluded many of the best known citi-
Eens of Newark. surrounded the Jail
early in the evening and sought ad-
mittance, which was denied by the
sheriff.
The mob continued to grow and be-
came further inflamed when it was
learned that Howard had died of his
wounds
Newspaper men leaving the Jail af-
ter interviewing the detectives were
set upon by the mob and were being |!
roughly handled when one established |
his identity by means of secret So
ciety emblem and saved his compan- |
ions from further mistreatment.
Fires Shot without warming.
Howard, it is charged, did not resist |
the detectives when they entered his /
place on the outskirts of the city. He |
is declared. however, to have put his
arms about Etherington, as if to hold |
him, whereupon the detective fired
bullet into his head
Striking Baltimore & Ohio employees
declared Etherington came to Newark
recently as a strike breaker and the
i'll feeling growing out of this intensi-
fed that due to the raids.
While part of the mob parleyed with
the sheriff others found a way into
the jail at 1850 o'clock, and Ethering-
ton was dragged out, protesting his in-