Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-22
THE MOBILE Il o
Attempted Assassination OF Judge
Kelley.
MOBILE. ALA, May Is, 1867.

Q Attempted Assassination OF Judg,
q Kelley.
MOBILE. ALA, May Is, 1867.
L In the riot last night two men were
: killed. One was white, a German, who
was shot through the head and stabbed
: afterwards. One was q colored man
who lay in the street till this morning.
The firing extended to various streets,
q distance of one mile from the meet
ing, snd was from housetops and win
dows. Col. Shepherd, commanding the
:. United States troops here, will make
an investigation into all the circum-
stances.
Files, the late Superintendent of
was aimed at Judge Kelley, has been
arrested and held in five thousand dol
lars bail. No other arrests have been
made.
Judge Kelley left at noon on a Gov
eminent transport for Montgomery,
furnished by Col. Shepperd.
The instruments of the band of the
18th United States Infantry, who were
on the platform when the riot COM
menced, were nearly all broken in the
melee.
The Mobile papers charge Judge
Kelley with using incendiary language,
and accuse the negroes of being the
cause of the riot.
Mayor Withers is an ex-Confederate
General, and his police is of the same
complexion. All of the police force on
duty were present at the meeting. 1t
is said that the attack was made by an
armed mob, yet only one man has been
arrested.
NV YoRk, May I5.-The HeraPs
Mobile special gives the particulars of
the riot. He says that Judge Kelley
bad been speaking about a quarter Of
an hour in . frank and temperate man.
ner, when there appeared to be 8 dis
position to create q disturbance on the
outskirts of b e-meeting. Cries of put
him down were heard, to which Mr..
Kelley replied: al tell you that you
cannot put me down. The Fifteenth
Infantry sre at my back, and if they
cannot keep the peace IN Mobile, the
United States army can" The tumult
suddenly broke out at this point by q
sudden rush toward the PLATFORM
About a hundred people were on the
platform, including many eminent citi-
zens, reporters of the press, etc. This
rush seemed to be the signal for the
melee to commence.
The Chief of Police attempted to ar
rest a ringlesder on the border of the
crowd, and be drew a pistol on him
The cry of FIRE was then raised at the
corner of Royal street, and instantly a
perfect fusilade of pistols was opened
on the crowd who occupied the plat
form. A colored man wa here shot in
the head and fell Some friends drag
ged Judge Kelley from out the range
of FIRE and succeeded in getting him
away unframed. The firing by this
time was directed right and left among
the crowd in the street, who were fly
ing in all directions.
There seemed to be no attempt on
the part Of the police to arrest the yio-
lence, OF if there was it WIS Intellectual,
for the rebels had 1t all their own way.
1t was evidently a pFeconcerted affair,
and was probably stimulated by incen-
diary articles in the rebel press for the
past few days. Colonel Shepherd, who
commands the military here, at once
dispatched a body Of troops 10 the Bat
tie House, where Judge Kelley is stop
ping, and where Colonel Shepperd has
taken up his quarters for the night
Several white men who probably had
no part in the attack, we're shot in the
melee. Mr.. Goldsmith was killed, and
Mr.. Sudbury, late Chief of Police, was
shot in the forehead. A policeman had
q ball put through his wrist. If any
disposition to renewt the riots is shown, |
it is probable that the city viii be
placed under martial law.
Colonel Shepherd is now in council
with Mayor Withers. The whole mill
tary force, who are eucamped about q
mile from the place of meeting, have
been ordered into the city, and are DOW
posted at different points, prepared for
any attempt of 3 renewal of the riot.
NOZZLE, May l5.-During the melee
last night the following persons were
killed and wounded; Killed-Whites
Tsbual Alsen colored, Samuel Britten.
Wounded-Whites Thos. Taylor, D. a.
Hurd, David Parsons, of the police, two
boys and Jas. Barnes, Col. D. S. Sed-
burg, A. Goldsmith and J. Gaugh. since
reported dead, and an additional num-
Der of men, white and coloFed, slightly
injured and names not known. All is
perfectly quiet to-day, and there will
be no further disturbance.
Judge Kelley has been invited By the
Mayor to remain and speak in public,
ana offered the protection of all good
citizens. Col. Shepherd also offered
him military protection, but Judge
Kelley declined their offers, and left
for Montgomery to-day.
A card appears in the morning
papers, signed by many of the best citi-
zens of Mobile, for smeeting to express
their unqualified condemnation of the
party engaged in the disturbance of the
meeting last night.