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Show INFORMER LYNCHED STRIFE BETWEEN SALOON AND ANTI-SALOON ELEMENT RESULTS RE-SULTS IN HANGING. " I Voung Man Who Killed Proprietor of "Blind Tiger" During Raid Is Taken from Jail by Unmasked Mob and Hanged. Newark, O. Carl Btherlngton, 22 .fenrs old, employed Thursday night by the State Anti-Saloon league as n blind tiger raider, was lynched here at 10:35 Friday night following a day of almost continuous rioting. The heavy doors of tho .Licking county Jail were battered down nnd Ether-lugton Ether-lugton was dragged from his coll. He was shot, kicked nnd bruised before tho street was reached, and tho finish was (ulclt. Ethorlngton, early in I ho ovenlng, confessed ho killed Wlllinm Howard, proprietor of the "Last Chance" restaurant res-taurant and forinor chief of police, In a raid of alleged "speak-easles," and narrowly escaped lynching nt that lime. When nows was brought from tho hospital that Howard had died at 0 o'clock Friday night, the fury of tho mob took definite torm. Largo battering rnms wero directed against the doors or tho Licking county Jail and tho deputies were powerless. Tho doors fell tutor an hour's attack. Crying plteously, Ethorlngton, a curly-headed Kentticklnn, who had boon serving ns a strikebreaker since ho ivns released from the marine service Ihreo months ngo, was dragged forth and hanged, his body hanging for an hour before tho gazo of a quiet and sobered crowd, after which it was taken to tho city morgue. |