The daily gazette., 1881-11-11
THIRD EDITION
The Marion Negroes Murder whit .
Voters.
MKRrpIAS, Miss, Nov. 10, 1881.

votern.
MERIDIAN, Miss, Nov. 10, 1881.
The Marien troubles have produced
no new developments since yesterday,
except the arrest Of one negro. After .
lapse oftwo days and conversation with
forty or fifty different participants . re-
capitulAtion Of the whole affair, In brief,
is - follows:-on Tuesday last, while
the State election was progressing at
Warren, this county, Jasper Barnett,
an aged white man, having just voted,
was ihsulted by negro At the polls.
Barnett raised bis arm to resent 1t with
. blow--some eag be drew stick on the
negro, but before he could strike another
negro, named Frank johnson, shot him
with pistol In the neck, cutting the
Jugulzr VEN and killing him almost
instantly. George johnson (coiored),
formerly slave Of Barnett, ran up 10
defend his old master, and was shot by
negro, from the effects Of which he
died TO day. General shooting amongst
the negroes commenced. The whites
were all unarmed. JEFF Sesars, white,
was killed by . negro named Samuel
Gillesple. Vince SegaIs was wounded
and is expected to die. The negroes
rushed upon Alexander Harvey, the
democratic candidate for County Asses
sor, who was standing fifty yards away
from the seence, and he was killed by
shot through the held. Frank johnson
shot him in the face after he was dead.
James Hodges (white) was wounded In
the knee, and Levy Moore (white) was
wounded In the hand. The negroes who
did the shooting were Gillespie, Frank
johnson, Allen and Burwell Brown and
Martin Malone. Marion was not their
voting place; they were from another
precinct. Will Vance (white), repub-
lican, is said to have given the negroes
the word to begin firing.
yIeHTISe WITH THE sHERIFP's POSSE.
As soon as the news reached Meridian,
six miles distant, Sheriff R. L. Hender.
son, with 4 posse Of seventy five men
repaired to the scene. The negroes had
ali LETT. A party OF twenty men went
TO the house Of Ed. Vance (white), with
warrants Of arrest, and demanded the
surrender Of its occupants. They were
replied TO by Vance, who told them to
"go 10 hell" They were then fired on
and repulsed, one horse being shot. BY
five. .oslock in the afternoon relief came,
and the Siberia, with his men, sur.
rounded the house. The Sheriff called
out TO the inmates TO surrender. AL
white flag was presented at the front
door and the Sheriff met the bearer on
hallway ground. On the promIse that
the Sheriff would protect Vance and all
In the house, should they surrender, it
was agreed on. The Sheriff drove in
bis buggy up 10 the gate to take in the
prisoner. Will Vance and his men
gathered about the yard, anticipating no
danger. John Vance at that moment
was seen In STOPPING attitude behind |
The corner of the stables near by, with a
gun leyelled at the posse, but before he |
could fire he was shot and killed. At
The same instant, while A. G. Warren, ,of
posse, was pledging protection to the
females OF Vance's family, he was shot
Through the head by some one inside
Ihs house and instantly killed. The
Sheriff and Hardin Jones, of the posse,
were slightly wounded. Ed. Vance |
escaped. Several negroes were asen to |
nre On the pOsss from the house. and
run of.