Honoring Carl Etherington

On July 8, 1910, Deputy Marshal Carl Etherington was killed for enforcing the County Option Law, which prohibited the sale of alcohol in Licking County. The County Option Law resulted from the Rose Law of 1908 and was a precursor to the National Prohibition Act, the 18th amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Etherington shot the owner of an illegal saloon in self-defense. Later that day, a mob forcibly removed him through the Licking County Jail’s north side door, beat him, and hanged him from a telegraph pole on the southeast corner of the square. His death has been recognized as a line of duty death by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Ohio Peace Officers Memorial, and Officer Down Memorial Page.

Newark, Ohio · United States