People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — MOB DID NOT GATHER. [ARTICLE]

MOB DID NOT GATHER.

Polio* Prevent a Demonstration Against Prlau norm Jirkaoo and W Hug. Cincinnati, Feb. 19.—Owing to an incendiary advertisement calling for 1,000 men at Court and Sycamore streets at 8:30 Tuesday, “ready for work,” there was a well-founded apprehension that a mob was to be gathered to lynch the prisoners Jackson and Walling when on their way from the jail to the police court. The crowd did assemble, but a heavy relay of police was found there and no concentration was permitted. Little by little news got abroad that no occasion for any sort of demonstration could arise, for the simple reason that the prisoners had been quietly removed to the city hall two hours before the time when it was supposed they would leave the jail. Notwithstanding this fact, curious people kept coming to that vicinity, only to find no cause for excitement. When the cases were called in court the prisoners promptly appeared from the cell-room below with no signß showing any change in their bearing. They were required to remain not more than a half minute, for counsel had agreed to continue the hearing until Feb. 27.