The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-20
A NEGRO MOB.

| MURDERER OF A NEGRO oIRL---TERRrBLH
AND FATAL STRUGGLE WITH A SHERIFF AND
HIS PossE-THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Recently at Pensacola. Fla, named Simon
Johnson ravshed little negro giri ana caused hes
death. The colored community became frantic with
excitement and determined to emulate the whso
III their ven geance The Pensacola Gazstte says:-
We presume that there is not person In PcnsacoA
OF adult age, black who you'd not rejoice 10
know that The bsastly murderer Of little Louisa Daw-
sou mad gone his account; that the living body
which now pollutes the atmosphere we breathe was
dangling bacKsning corpse on galiows as nigh ~
OF the psbic with puIsation common to ell
Tho coiored people resolved that the matter
the VICTIM being both Of their race. In the fore
neon Of "Wednesday they gashe.sd 70 me
na%e:r Of a.oa 'aoSsans usa o'. soos o.
get possession of the prisoner and execute prompt
Vengeance II they coeld have doos so wltneat eolI
son with the authorities one would have de-
nouuced their action: perhaps all wsuld nave APP
proved the prisoner was In charge OF an officer
| OF the Jaw, and sheriff Hutchinson was determined
viudcsIe Its authority, and No proved equal 10 the
| emergency The crowd slowly aud unwiiling!y dts
inson, urged 10 DO SO by Judge Avery aud Mayor
Jones aud eioquently exhorted 10 90 SO by Rev. w.
tue sheriff, mounted dray and addressed the
hage.
Everything was quiet for the rest OF he day. but
evei ybody ielt the trouble was yet to come.
snerir Hutchinson prepared. 10 meet tpe issue BY
summoniug posse 20 guard the jail, which was APP
preached a. late hour Of the night by crowd oil
| about one hundred and nity men, rheir SPOKESMAN,
George Caro- by name demanded that tho prisoner be
SURE ndered THIS was refused, and The crowd be-
ginning TO camor thai they would have him anyhow,
Sheriff hutcnns0 mis- assistants imui edateiy ar
Caro- others aud sent Ihcm into The
Ja, Tho shern then ordered the crowd 10 leave. aud
they left Without further demonstrations tnan NUT
toriugs low aud deep
About an hour later the steady tramp 0f an organ
fzaua md mn M d
son street, ana sheriff formed his across the
street IN font Of the jail. As the approaching
force into Saragossa which The all 70
situated, near tho middle OF the mex. block jener.
sou, showed TO three hundred strong. When ths
i've yards OF the jail ii challenged by ths
sheriff The response was demand Tor toe delivery
a shot from the crowd apparently aimed
at the Sheriff, who at once returned the
discharge. A rapid tusiiude al once ensucd, the
SnerIds posse falling back into the jail yard before
the furious charge Of the multitude OF assaiinnts.
these tore open the gate with hot IRE
which drove them back, but they continued 10 fire
Soards from the fence a. distance from the gate aud
began to push IN through the breach, 10 which the
Sheriff rushed with some Of his mon, most O! whom
had already exhausted their ammunition. Hutchin.
son dubbed his guu and stood In the breach,
and broke the stock OF over the heads OF the In.
vaders. The defenders were now exposed to q
vertical fro from the gallery windows OF the two
story building which overiooks the jail yard being
but about feet from II. This mouse Ia tenapted
by negro prostitutes. This IRE slightly wounded
Deputy Speigner tho bali grszng his stomach, pass
ing leg inside the pants and being found In
hs sock. The thus holding tho yard against the
furious multitude and divided between the breach
ana tho gate, did not number more than .
dozen men aud their last shot had been
fred when the assailants, dismayed by THAR osses
ana discouraged by the desperate resistance, with
drew in haste II panic stricken. bearing oil their
wounded, some OF wnom are dan ,s,roasly injured
among tnem rli Mauac, shot through right arm aud
The right breast, and VIII Curry IN lett breast
Richard Dlehay about seventy yards after being
sho and tel aud died front Of lawyer Campbells
Office door IN the Piuney Building. Al the time OF
this writing rumored that more than one oil the
wounded have died.
beside slight wound Of Deputy Speigner that beel
the defenders was That oil Deputy De Marquis, the
skin whose forehead was razcd from eye 10 eye by
o bullet. Both were narrow escapes.
REINFORCEMENT
As soon tho brief but furious battle ended, and
Sheriff Hutchinson (who acted with great courage,
judgment and GOODNESS throughout we are todl
found that there not round OF ammunition islt
Tor the pistols OF his brave little army, he despatched
u messenger TO request the Escambia Rfos
to reinforce him-and, by the way, there
were number OF the members Of that
company, which he Is lieutenant, IN
hts posse Corporal ). r. Mallory hastily collected
squad the prvtes resident IN mis- neighborhood aud
marched to the jail but there was happily OCCASION
Tor their services. There was no further attack.
most laneutable and tragca event had ended iss
cortland while the law abiding must feel that II u
we'll that its power has been viudcated yet Is sad 10
think that those have suffered whose oence Was yield
ing 10 4 natural impulse TO summariy punish an IN.
carnate heud VINO lives. But accomplish their
object they made the mistake oil an open attack on DID,
e al with murdorOus WoaUOnS.