The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-10-25
Death to Inccndiaries.

The following reports have beer
gathered with reference to inuen
diarics killed.
A boy attempted to help on the
confagration by igniting u clntEe,
line saturated with kerosene and
throwing it into building 90 THIRTY.
second street. lie receives hi. DE-.
sert. at the hauds of the ircmcn, wh.
saw the act, aud "now sleeps in the
valley"
A man, name unknown, was shot
by negro at the corner of State and
Phirty-second streets. His offencr
WAS that he set fire to building t.
obtain better opportunity for pill
lage.
Bridget Hickey was arrested for
setting fire to barn in the rear of a
house on Burnside street. BY some
mistaken idea of clemency sho was
not hanged.
Two men who were caught trying
to set fire to the Jesuit church, on
the West Side, were disposed of
without ceremony, and the lockers on
were pleased to say "Scrved 'em
right"
About noon yesterday barn on
the corner of of Burnside and Twen-
tieth streets was observed to be on
fire. Knowing that it must have
been the work of an inoendiary, the
neighbors united to extinguish it,
filling their coats and hats and every
thing they could get hold of with
sand. The fire was extinguishcd in
good time, and a man found in there
captured. 1t is stated that he was
shot. Whether the report is or is
not correct is not known.
At about IL O'Clock yesterday
forenoon man also riding on Fourth
avenue caught man in the basement
of his house, number unknown, armed
with hay and matches. He gave the
alarm, and the incendiary was caught
and stoned and battered to death. lie
lies on the avenue yet, near Four
teenth street.
From Commissioner T. B. Brown
the following incident was learned
On his authority it is correct without
doubt: At about o'clock yesterday
afternoon a colored man, name un-
known, observed a white man sneak
ing round his house on Fourth
avenue. He fred the barn in the
rear of the house, and was instantly
shot dead.
Among the special policemen sworn
in Oh the South Side yesterday vas a
negro named "Dick CASTILLO, who was
assigned to beat on Wabash avenue,
near Hubbard court. About 4
O'Clock in the afternoon white man,
whose name is unknown, was looking
upon the ruins, when CASTILLO warned
him of. He answered that he was
only spectator, and was doing no
harm. when the negro raised piece
of lead pipe, with which he was arm
ed, and smashed in the mans skull,
killing him on the spot. The crowd
followed the negro, and would have
hanged him but for the Intervention
of couple Of poIicemeD, who rescued
him and looked him up in tho Cot
o"6C oiOFS LCu'lOb.
About o'clock yrstcrdar af'cr.
noon residents on The S n: Sic
wee alar,t ed by 'he cry / fiji ,'!' h
incr"a,e shen they sAa .o'DH; 80
cend,ng from NJ. Shaif'. :, ..or,.
corner Of State auy 'il,r. FRS,
streets. 1t Was cyiHen,I, -. ~nr>
Of al incendiary, and, ow,rA 70 ,Uc
deV,lish ingenuity used b; he .;onn
drel who did the work, much dlliicu.-
ty was found in exiting ishing liz.
fire. Commissioner Sheridan haprou-
ed near the place aud assisted to put
out the blaze. A meeting Of over
two hundred citizens Was held imme
diately, and Mr.. Sheridan empower
cd the chairman to swear in all he
thought fit as special polioem en-.
There was indignation enough to
have put a summary end to tho devil
had he been ceught, and a determi,
nation to treat all such as dogs IN.
worthy of life.
Another man shot last evening
BY police officer, who detected hin,
in the act Of attempting to fire the
Jesuit church on Twelfth street.
An excited crowd gathered round
tte West Division police station
about 8 O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
intent upon making an applica' ion OF
Lynoh law TO man who was alleged
to have tried to set fire to house on
Milwaukee avenue. Three or four
ropes wore fourished vigorously in the
crowd, and several speeches were
made by parties urging them t, res.
QUE the incendiary from the hands OF
the police, but tho latter were firm
and at last accounts the man was still
q prisoner in the cell. Chicago Jour.
nal.
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The latest kerosene explosion oc.