Show jIJ1 bt BUCKEYE BUSINESS HH FftJl 11 J t If Indignation Runs Had and Rushes People to their Death I111t1 i ik War Between a Cincinnati Mob i1 and the Police and Military I When Laws Fail the People It Assert Themselyes i1II Ein The Murderer Escapes hut is Recaptured K ii t He May he Lynched Yet Hr4 I ti fl if j Cincinnati 2SThe history of I b the crime for which Berner was 4 today oentenced to twenty year is briefly as follows Win H Kik was murdered in his stable last j February by Berner who sttod behind k be-hind the door and when bis victim h entered smashed his bead with a hammer robbed him of 5400 put tLi1 the body into the wagon of the murdered mur-dered man and hauled it off and ii1p dumped it into Mill Creek where it was found two days later Newton Cobb of Manchester 0 was shot in the shoulder by a soldier t iirh through the jail window Cobb was a bystander on the sidewalk The crowd claim that the soldiers are firing unnecessarily upon outs I HAt elders who are merely lookers on iI On the other hand the soldiers i dread an effort to bare the place or tkt blow it up by rolling co ii oil barrels i into the basement and justify Hi i themselves in clemag tbe sidewalks jLtiIi side-walks on that account It is said a I number of women specUc r nave been hurt with random shote 1 i1L The firng of j guns is E tiH htard at intervals The mob is now looking I I for ammunition with the prcBi ect 1 jtI of success The first regiments armory ar-mory has been guarded for three I nights in auticipation of this affair i b but the Veteran regimen of which Sheriff Hawkins is colonel did not r II take the same precaution For the 4 purpose of getting more aims and ammunition the mob is now in the extensive gun store ot Ivittredge Co the largest in the city In a few minutes greatly superior force I to the military will be about the 1 jail and serious results must follow I i Some are talking about getting cannon can-non at the Music Hall r Cincinnati 292 20 am The firing 11 4 fir-ing by soldiers from the windows has been terribly destructive The i 1 1 following wounded have been gathered r gath-ered into a drug store on Court and I ji i I Walnut and a hotel nesr E James Green dying Walter E Fay dying I Ps ft James Turk mortally wounded F P il Soehner bad wound in the thigh Ed DallBff shot in the legs These 9 1 were all bystanders and there is I growing a bitter feeling against the j t soldiers The mob has taken all the I arms they want from Kittredges 1ii store including a small cannon I t r 11 I 3 amLuud reports from the I I I vicinity of the jail indicate either J I t that the mob is firing cannon or J i I I 1 that barrels of coal oil are being exploded 1 I t ij f ex-ploded These were rolled into the I I lower part of the jail some time ago 1 I f JI The mob has organized and marched I up Main street lust now with a fife I i t Iif and drum Firing still continues j with the prospect f f a bloody battle S I 7 i I 315 9mlhe firing hy cannon it i was by the mob about fifty of the I 1 m leaders of which said they were w l thirstiog for revenge It does not II It t appear tht they nave produced I Ii r II any effect The police have full I I r U f f control ot the jail and the greater I 1 < J portion of the mob has dispersed It I I J I 1 is thought now the work for the 1 1 1 night is over Jos Stern member f ilf iF of the patrol wagon force who L i L71R was shot is dead i 4 I i F1 I g amTher8 is still quite a large crowd around the jail but collected l I 1 i t i 1 there by curiosity The military is tl t t still on guard and no further attack ii is anticipated The following are Ii I the additional woundeJ last night d Iil It Private Edward Muthert slight It t Private Herman Rose slight Private I Irf t i Pri-vate Harry Rolling serious Private h Charles Gibbons slight Policeman ill I 9 elt l Phil Nunn seriously Arthur Bou i i tUBer arm shattered Henry Yaiger slight John Griffith fatal Martin Eafferty fatal C L Barking iF Bark-ing serious Lawton slight Don t nelson slight Mike Holle slight Adolok Busser slight Cyrus Johnson 1 John-son slight Reid slight J A Leo ard slight Jack Berry man slight n f McMinner slights Mary Smith k f fat George Miller serious A man jI Ff from Virginia seriously wo nded 44 refused to give his name iL As the meeting at the Music Hall ijq adjourned last night the attention jirt of the people was attracted by the shout of a young man who cried out To the jail come on follow S me and hang Berner Although there might have been an intention ur l to organize a mob this is the first time that it found vent in decided iiIt expressions The cry was soon taken 1fl4 up and spread rapidly There was a report on the 6 reels 1ip this morning that Berner had been Jt recaptured and hung at Loveland iift Love-land Tnis proved groundless I 13 One story is that Brner in running i4iii from the crowd at Loveland ran iE4U into the Miami River and was drowned This is not Improbable 1 i as the night was very dark antI no 1f trace was found of him The whole i country is being scoured by excited J1 citizens and if found alive he will i certainly be lynched i1 11W Officer Nunn died at four oclock iUll1 from the effects of his wounds pr The crowd around the jail soon jk reached 10000 people There seemed vw to be about 200 men in the lead who took the initiative in all step but 1 j S 5 m ii 5 paid little As soon as it was learned in tbe jail that the mob was outide Sheriff Hawkins called up for Marshal Mar-shal Bunker by telephone and the riot alarm was sounded Th sheriff and preparations to nosse made all rerel the attack On the way 10 the jail tie mob secursd a long heavy fcantl u > which they used as a battering bat-tering ram They began operations on the north tide f f the door anti knocked a hole long enough to admit a mans body through which the mob crowded thick ana fast end about fifty mounted the stairs Here they were met by a aetail of the police and the sherff and were forced back into the jail office By this time the mob outside out-side had procured a long heavy board and placing it in the iron railing in front of the jail pushed it through a window into the tecmd story Wittt this they broke out the entire sash and inside shutters and scrambled into the apartment of jailor Brady This successful move encouraged the crowd who made a rush for the south door leading to the street from the second story which is here level with the pavement This soon gave way and the mob went through in great numbers The sheriffs force consisted of thirteen men When the mob entered these withdrew hastily into the jail proper leaving between them and the mob the heavy grated iron doors which separated the reception room from the cell room This is at the foot of the stairway leading up to the cell room The reception room was jammed and the mob kept calling Give us Berner Give us Johnson and so on through the list of murderers confined in the jail There seemed to be no leader Finally a tall muscular negro began to give orders and the mob quickly obeyed A space was cleared and a plank used as a battering ram brought to bear against the iron door Behind the door i stood Sheriff Hawkins and his men wth drawn revolvers The sheriff said calmly that it meant death to I enter that door The crowd wavered a moment and hesitated then the colored leader gave the word Swing the plank He was instantly in-stantly obeyed and the gate trembled trem-bled with the whack and a mighty shout went up A second stroke from the battering ram made the gate weaken perceptibly The thrd loosened its bolts and It flew open Sheriff Hawkins had instructed his men not to fire as he did not wish to shed blood He attempted to address ad-dress the mob but they flew by him up the winding iron stairway to the cell room They sought Berner but soon discovered that he was moved Then they went to Johnsons cell one of the murderers of the Taylor amily at Avondale The horrified prisoner suffered more than death as he looked on the determined de-termined men outside A powerful power-ful plank was brought up to batter down the door of the cell but the small space prevented its use with enect Besides the deputy sheriff caught hold of the plank and prevented pre-vented its being used Meantime Chief of Police Reilly hearing the men were in the jail entered through the courthouse and through a tunnel from it to the interior of the jail With this combined force the men were put out of the corridors corri-dors about the cells and the mob seemed to be repulsed Not a shot was fired up to to this time by the forces within the Jail The stairway was again in ps es sion of the sheriffs rorres and the strugge began for the iron gj1e The colored ringleader was eiztt1 by Lieutenant Dunn struck on the hea and dragged inside Then tie gate was closed several others being Arrested about the same time Tb b altering ram was broken in two ard served as a brace for the gate The mob seemed repulsed and a story went out spreading throngh the outside out-side crowd only to inflame a more serious effort Efforts were redoubled re-doubled at all the entrances and the southern gate to the jail yard was broken down Meantime Sheriff Hawkins sent an order to Colonel Hunt commanding the first regiment regi-ment of militia to report to him in the jail with all the men possible Only about forty men were on duty and these went to the jail passing through the courthouse and tunnel already mentioned Here occurred the first bloodshed The farther end of the tunnel was guarded by Officers Phil Nunn and VonSeggern AS the soldiers api proached by threes with guns pointed J Officer VonSeggern threw up his hands ana shouted For Gods sake dont shoot here You will kill your friends Without taking warning the command of Fire P was given and a volley went rattling through the tunnel Officer Nunn fell pierced by four bullets VonSeggern was shot in the side of the head Several of the militia were shot by their own guns This volley had the effect of clearing the jail but for two hours thereafter efforts we e made on the outside to destroy the whole banding A I barrel of coal oil was poured down into the tower part of the jail and set it oa fire but the officers within managed to extinguish it The carpenters office furnished some wood and that I also was fired but as the jail Is mainly stone and iron tills effort was futile The crew threw boulders aud fired pistols promiscuously at the windows and the militia meantime mean-time fired from the windows at the crowd Sheriff IIawkins tried to control the firing by ordeinrg that not more than one man should fire at a time and then only to frighten but not to kill The men were an controlable and fired at the crowd doing deadly work Later a crowd broke into the veteran armory and Kittrldges gun store and got arms but by the time this was done the crowd had thinned out and no farther perous attempt was made rnd at 330 this morning quiet was restored Earners crime was in assisting Joe Palmer colord in the cold blooded murder of his employer William H Klrkon Christmas eve for tbe purpote of robbery Both he and Palner ccnfesced the murder but the jury found him guilty of manslaughter This with the fact that about twenty other untried murderers are in the jail is what inflames the public mind The feelIng feel-ing has by no m ana been allayed by last nights tngedy and is growing not only against the murderers but against the milita upon whom the whole responsibility of the loss is placed Sheriff Hawkins had repulsed re-pulsed tha mob without bloodshed and was holding them at bay when the militia entered and filed indirect in-direct opposition to the protest of Officer VonSeggern People do no rest easy under the fact that Officer Nunn lost his life trying to protect the lives of worthless murderers Columbus 0 291berlOt alarm has been calling the militarv together to-gether for half an hour The Fourteenth Four-teenth regiment is resting oa its arms waiting a special train to Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Four regiments with headquarters head-quarters at Dayton have also been ordered by the Governor to fall in for orders Train men end passengers who arrived here after midnight give the following account of the mob at Loveland and Morrow and the efforts ef-forts to get Berner the murderer to Columbus Two deputies with Berner drove from Cincinnati over to Linwood and there took the accommodation ac-commodation toLoveland This part of the JDurney was made without accident Joe Moses was then to go to the Little Miami depot and quietly board the tram for Cilum bus and join the two deputies and Berner at Loveland When the Little Miami pulled into Lovehnd Berner was placed on the car next to the sleeper before the train had come to a full stop The two deputies depu-ties sat near him but did not have him fastened to them Joe Moses sat in the next car in advance As the train came to a stop a howling mob of nearly 300 men made for the cars jelling uThere he is each hm Some of the men were masked while part of them were not They climbed in all the cars but most of them broke for the one in which Moses wa seated One of the deputies depu-ties who had been detailed with Berner sprang from his seat and started for the front car The crowd thought it was Berner trying to escape and pouncirg on him bore him to the ground He waR choked beaten and almost killed before the mistake was discovered Berner had sprang from his seat but in attempting to jump from the platform plat-form fell headlong t9 the ground It was doubtless this accident that prevented the crowd from recognizing recogniz-ing him The train boy who was standing on the platform at the time says Berner walked around the car and entered again from the rear Meantime the mob had discovered their mistake and were even more Infuriated than before be-fore Berner walked about two thirds of the way through the car when one of the deputies who had seen him jump from the train I cried There he goes nowcatch him Immediately Berner started on a run and again jumped from the train which by this time had started to pull cut from the station Ooe of the deputies ran after bim while the one wh had been mi tar n for Berner was still held oy the crowd Joe Moses and the third deputy remained on the tram t he tran men do not think Berner was captured They believe after jumpIng jump-Ing from the train the second time he ran between the Little Miami train and the second train was standing on the track and after thus evading the moo escaped to the field A train boy a brakeman and the conductor verify these statements While the first section of the train the one that had been attacked at Loveland pulled into Morrow another mob was waiting to capture the prisoner The mob was composed of 150 or 200 men only part of whom were masked Before the train stopped they climbed on the engine into the cars and on the stepseager to get po3688 ion of the murderer Some of the men attempted to force the engineer to stop the train before it got into town in order that they could swing Berner from a bridge near by They hunted through the p senger baggage and aheping care completing their search just as the train pulled away from town Morrow is fourtetn miles north west of Loveland Moses and a deputy got off here They were so excited they could hardly speak The second section of the Little Miami which starts from Cincinnati about fifteen minutes after the first witnessed almost the same scene as those that had been enacted before At Loveland the wild mob was still yelling aod searching for Berner Many men rushfd upon the train thinking perhaps 1 per-haps an attempt would te made to 1I I smuggle him through As the train I i pulled out cries were heard saying i the search would be continued till daylight when the fugitive would be easily recognized At Morrow the mob was at the depot waiting for the Eecond section and when it arrived the same frenzied efforts were made to discover the object of their search In spite of the excitement thera were noat tempts to delay and search the trains Both came in on time The passengers and train men on the second section gave the same thrilling thril-ling accounts that were given before be-fore and stated that the excitement was Increasing Col Hunt was telegraphed by the Governor to be r in readiness and his excellency will rem in Over t Sunday so as to call more troops if necessary Col Hunt made a requisition on the adjutant general for 5080 rounds of ball cartridges and they were sent to Cincinnati on the train Papengers oa the morning and noon train from Cincinnati state tbat the most intense in-tense excitement exists all along the way large crowds being gathered at the stations and threats are made against the deputy sheriffs that they would suffer if they did not succeed in their scouting about i the country to produce Berner or show tLathe had been put out of the way Special trains have been sent out for companies at surrounding surround-ing towns The Governor has given I orders and a large force of troops will start from here at 3 oclock by ppcial train for Cincinnati I Cincinnati 29 Colonel Hunt I I commander of the militia gives this version of the firing on the mob When we endeavored to pass through tbe tunnel we found it occupied oc-cupied by the mob who had just as Boon as the two leading files made their appearance began firing onus on-us Three or four leading men I fell badly wounded The deputy sheriff who was with us ordered the men to return the fire which they did and cleared the tunnel In every Instance the man fired under orders Most of the gunshot I wounds came from the indiscrimi nacp firing of the mob This account or the firing is directly di-rectly contradicted by Officer Von Seggern whore story has been lold already He begged the solditia not to shoot I Nothing has yet been heard oft J Berner Deputy sheriffs left Loveland this morning in carriage going toward Cincinnati I giving rise to the suspicion that Berner had come here to hide bat that is mere gue sing Th crowds in the vicinity of the courthouse and jail continue large though the I I polce and soldiers prohibited all access to the front or sides of the jail or to the street for a square in every direction Apprehension of trouble tonight grows stronger It is rumored tbat Campbrll County Ky will send 800 men to rescue the rioters arrested last night and still in jail I LaterBerner was caught at Fosters Fos-ters Crossing about 2 30 and is in charge of officers who will take him to Columbus i Cincinnati 23o All day hang i lug crowds have filled the streets as I I near to the jail aa they were permitted 1 per-mitted to come The jail is a circular cir-cular building with two wings extending I ex-tending north and south faces easton east-on Sycamore St the yard is enclosed I en-closed with a high stone wall surmounted sur-mounted by an iron fence the I eastern front has doors leading into the residence of the jail which open on the sidewalk Entrance I proper is reached by a stone winding wind-ing stairway leading down to an I area 12 feet below the sidewalk Here was the beginning of the attack left night crowd could surge up to the very doors of the j ulor s residence and could fill the area in front of the lower door which they battered open with heavy sawed beams obtaned from a new building near by The same beam and half a dozen more were carried into the jail today and used as props to secure all the outside out-side doors I |