Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-25
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From the Milwaukee Wisconsin Sept Q.
Lynch Law i'm Milwaukee...A Negro
Murderer Hung by n Mob.

Murderer Hung by n Mob.
The stabbng affray described by us on last Sat
urday had tragic sequel late that night and early
Yesterday morning. 1t will be recollected that
two negroes, named Marshal Clark and James
Shelton, stabbed two Irishmen named Darby
Carney and John Brady, and an Englishman
named Thomas Ellis, on and near the corner of
Milwaukee and Michigan streets, about half past
seven o'clock on Friday evening. Early Sat1r-
day morning the negroes we're arrested, and that
day were lodged in the Jail, having confessed the
deed. but claiming. we believe, that they were in
liquor, and that it the result of drunken
fight about couple of girls who were passing
along at the time. The friends of those stabbed
claim that the negroes nsulted the girls
and that Carney and Brady interfered
and took their part, and that the negroes
turned upon the men and stabbed them and
just afterwards stabbed the lampghter Elhs)
who was passing along mindng his own bus
iness, but whom the negroes ran up against,
when he showed them off, and that they turned
and stabbed him also. The friends of the ne
groes claim that the girls were with the latter and
that Carney and Brady interfered and picked
quarrel with the negroes, from which sprung a
fight in which the latter defended themselves with
knives. el
About half past ten o'clock on Saturday night
Darby died from his injuries, and not long after
that that the fire bells rang, as if for a fire in
the lower part of the city. The engine COM
panes dashed through the streets with their
machines, but were unable to find any fire.
1t soon appeared, however, that the alarm was
signal for mob to avenge the death of Darby
Carney.
About half past eleven the first wave of the
tide that afterwards composed the mob started
from the lower part of the third ward, and rein
torcements fell in as it proceeded, until by the
time It reached the jail there there must have
beed 200 or 300 in the crowd. The numbers
were afterwards swelled by those who were mere
ly lookers-on, and had gone along with the crowd
from curiosity, TO perhaps 500, although many of
them hung back some distance from those who
seemed bent upon riot. On reaching the Jail
no obstacles seemed to stand in the way, and they
began to shout, and exhibit all the various de-
monstrations that generally characterize such
proceedings Nearly all were armed with some
means OF aggression pistols, knives, clubs,
stones, billets of wood, hammers, &c.
The outside door of the Jail was open, as usual,
a heavy wooden and iron door being locked at
the end of the hall, in the rear of which are the
cells. The crowd began to enter the hall at once,
but were at first resisted by Chief Beck and po-
hcemen Smith and Thomas. who had meanwhile
got in among them and ahead of them. They
warned Beck to get out of the way, as they did
not want TO burt him, but he told them he should
not stir, ana that they could not enter the JAIL
This occasioned an attack upon him, and he was
knocked down by either stone or slung shot
The two policemen were also taken and hurled
clear out into the gutter, but were not partic-
ularly Injured. Beck meanwhile had been taken
from among them, and was afterwards conveyed
to his residence. To-day he is able to be about
again.
The crowd by this time was wild with excite
ment. Some shouted. DARBY Carney is dead,
and that's enoughl" Oshers-"We must have
r1rrof f,od II ,sn Ct.n
"D-n the niggers and Abolitionistsl'' Stones
were thrown through the windows int the
part of the house usually occupied by the fam
lily. But luckily the jailor Mr.. KendricS) on
hearing the crowd coming, had sent his family
up stairs, into a small room there was off in one
corner.
There was an iron shutter to the window of
this room, on the north side, which his wife
closed and they then remained there. But SER
want girl was sleeping in front room, and
came within an ace of being struck by rock.
She got up out of bed TO go into another room,
and she hardly got out of the bed before a
rock came whizzing through the window, and
landed directly in the bed where she had been
lying.
By this time they had battered off enough Of
the casing to the heavy inside door. let them in
among the cells There were perhaps from 25 to
80 inside of the hail. They took hold of one OF
the Jail guards named Guild, and had quite a
tussle with him, but soon got him down and took
one of the keys away from him, tearing some OF
his clothes from him during the encounter. They
also took another key away from Wallace Page
the assistant iailor. Meanwhile some of the
crowd had got around in the back yard opening
the gate TO get in, and were attempting to force
an entrance into the back door. Those in the
hall took the keys they had obtained. opened the
back door. and also opened the cell in which the
two negroes were confined.
They caught hold Of Clark first and started oul
with him, exclaiming We've gothimi Here he
is" Nearly all rushed toward him. and at this
instant Shelton seized his opportunity to make
his escape through the back door. Some one
caught him by the coat as he was going, but he
made desperate "lungs" and got Of, leaving a
portion Of his coat behind, and, amid the excite
ment, he made his escape. He was soon after
seen running down Oneida street, in his shirt
sleeves, and he has not been seen in the city
since. IL IS said that negro entered the cavalry
encampment, at Camp Scott, not long afterward
but after while they compelled him to leave
again. It was probably Shelton
As they took Clark out of the hall towards the
sidewalk, he was struck and pounded by man as