Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — General “Clean Up” Follows The Newark Lynching. [ARTICLE]

General “Clean Up” Follows The Newark Lynching.

Newark, Ohio, July 11.—Before he had been in office an hour this evening, J. N. Ankle, the vice-mayor elevated to the office of chief executive of Newark, following the suspention of Mayor Herbert Atherton by Governor Hhrmon, had< summarily removed Chief of Police Zergeibel and Police Captain Robert Bell. He gave as his grounds for the removal the non-enforcement of the county option law which resulted in the. lynching of Detective Carl Etherington Friday night. He appointed in their stead Charles Hindel, a former deputy sheriff, as chief, and patrolman Charles S. Wank as captain. He gave them orders to commence the immediate enforcement of all laws to the letter. As soon as the new police officials had assumed office they caused the arrest of a second negro, who fs held in connection with the Friday riots. Vance Mopre, of Zanesville, is alleged to have struck Carl Etherington, the raider, who was lynched, Just prior to the fatal shooting of William Howard. Moore is the second colored rioter arrested, Levi Valentine, a colored mjate, having been arrested in the afternoon.

Mayor Atherton upon a receipt of a telegram from Governor Harmon late this afternoon, immediately over his office to Ankel. He will of course put up a defense, he declared. “I have a witness who will testify that the local raiders refused to file charges against the speak easies' with me because they do not want me to have the credit of cleaning up the town. I will not step down tamely.”