Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-07-13
Had Previously Confessed Kill
ing Saloon Keeper Dur
ing A Raid
LynChers Not Masked Nor
Make Attempt to Conceal
Identity

Newark, O., July Carl Etherlng-
ton. aged %, employed by the state
anti-saIoon league as blind tiger
raider was lynched here at 1926 p.
m. last night, following day OF al
most 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"
confessed he had killed William now
ard. proprietor of the Last Chance
restaurant and former chief of police,
in a raid of the place.
When news from the hospital that
Howard had died passed over the
city at 9 last night, the fury OF the
mob took definite form, A large bat
teripg ram was directed upon the
doors of the Jail and the deputies
we're powerless. The doors fell afte'
an hours attack. Crying p1teously'
Ftherington. a curly headed Kentuck
ian who has been serving as a strike
breaker since he was released from
the marine service three months ago,
was dragged forth.
81 didn't mean to do it" ne Wailed.
His cries fell upon deaf ears. Fear
ny that the mob spirit would not be
satisfied with one victim, Sheriff
Linke Immediately asked Adjutant
General Weubrecht for troops to pro-
tect the six other dry" raiders who
were held in the city prison in anoth-
err section of the town. A hurried
guard was thrown out in their de-
tense. The mob, after its first taste
of blood. seemed quiet, but it was
feared they would storm the city
prison before the night was finished.
Etherington's last moments, while
he heard the mob battering down the
door. were spent in praying and writ
ing a note to his parents, farmers
near Willusburg, Kentucky.
what will mother say when she
hears of this?' he kept moaning to
the jailers.
Howard, it is said, did not resist
the detectives when they entered the
place. 1t is said he put his arms
about Etherington, to hold MIN,
whereupon the officer fired a bullet
into his head.
Striking Baltimore and Ohio en-
ployes declare that Etherington re-
Gently came to Newark as strike
breaker. Last night a strike-breaker
was pursued several squares. He
saved himself by jumping through a
window of laundry.
The detectives arrived yesterday
morning with search and seizure war
rants secured from the mayor OF a
nearby village. At the saloon OF
Louis Bolton, a bartender, Edward
McKenna, was hit over the head with
brass knuckles. The detective who
hit him was pursued by crowd who
quickly assembled He was rescued
by the police. officers with the pris-
oner were followed by the mob to
the jail.
Licking county, of which Newark
is the county seat, is dry, but the
anti-saloon league officials declare
the law is not enforced.
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. He was caught in time.
IN the melee as the mob was leav-
ing the Jail eight prisoners. held for
petty offenses. escaped. One refused
to leave
AS Etherington mounted the block