The Rich Form a Lynch Mob

As a comically stupid plan to sneak Berner to prison unravels, affluent Cincinnatians call a mass meeting, where speakers praise lynchings in nearby towns and whip the crowd into a frenzy. Afterward, people start marching to the jail. As the crowd grows to thousands, people grab battering rams, sledgehammers, and nooses, intent on breaking down the doors and hanging the accused killers inside. Despite obvious danger, the jail is unguarded, and by the time a few dozen poorly trained Ohio National Guardsmen are called into duty, the jail is overrun by a lynch mob, and it is surrounded by a crowd of over 10,000 people. Guardsmen respond by opening fire at random.