Daily Republican., 1883-09-27
FIFTH EDITION
B10T LAST NIGHT.
Pisssls DisshargsA And Tw, nj
9hOe.

A disgracefnl riot took place ,bo,t,
after 10 o'clock last night at Tenth NH
Orange streets, between party of coI
ored roughs and some police officsm
during which pistols Were used treeIv
and two men shot, the particulars ~
which, ~ far ~ could b. aseertainsi
are a. follows Between 8 and n
O'Clock . party of cOl0red men, some q,
whom had been drinking, were coDgrs
gated at Ninth and Walnut streets AL
Ing In Q disorderly manner, to the IA
rious annoyance Of persons residing il
the vicinity.
A police officer ordered them from N.
corner, aud they went down Waluut
street az far a. the National Hall, iut
below Ninth, but afterwards returned
and went to Tenth and Orange street,
and were Joined by part Of the gang q |
roughs who frequent that locality. The
men had a jug containing liquor, from
which they were seen to drink freely
They were creating quite disturLaDs
on the corner in the vicinity Of the Old |
foundry, when q couple of Officers, hear
ing the noise, proceeded to the place aud
ordered them to move on, which they
refused to do. Sergeant Blackburn, who
BY this time had also arrived, Ordered
them to disperse, and upon Lewis Il.
Hamilton, the riugleader, refusing 10
20. undertook to arrest him.
The Sergeant had no sooner taken
hold of Hamilton, than ne drew razor
which the officer attempted to knock
ont of his hand with a blackjack. Fail
ing In this, Hamilton made a deadly
thrusr At him with the weapon, and a.
the officer jumped back to avoid being
cut he was strutk with the razor on The
left leg near the groiu, the weapon pas
sing down until 1t was stopped by some
keys in his pocket. His pan,aOon
were split, and had 1t not been for ih
keys, it is probable he would have re-
Gel we'd q dangerous wound.
The Sergeant however,still held onto
his-man, and would no doubt have suc.
ceeded in getting him to the hall, had
it not been that just at that time some
one fired pistol, and this started tho
row. The colored men, who say tua
the officers fired the shots, commenced
tothrow stones and bricks at the police
who were compelled to use their pistol
to defend themselves, and there wen
about dozen shots fired, part OF which
IL IL said were by the roughs Otha
officers hearing the shooting hurried TO
the place, and the gang finding tha
they were about to be Overpowered TOOK
to their heels. 1t was then found tha
two men were shot, one of them being
Lewis H. Hamilton, and the other No
srs Watson, both colored.
Hamilton was Immediately taken 70
his fathers residence, No. 1923 Orange
street. and DR.. Draper summoned, VINO
after examining the wound, said tna
he did not consider 1t dangerous, ai
though it was bleeding freely 1t Vs
found that the bali had entered DIS Oaei
IN the right side, close to the spine aid
DIR. West, tho family physician, v@
was also present, andcavored TO lolIH
its conrse with a probe, but found tAI
it had struck q bone after entering aM
detiecsed FROM u direct course. Na'SOl'
wound was but slight, the ball haVN!
struck the flesh on his shoulder aa
glanced off. 1t could not be IraIna
this morning whether any one else Wy
hit or not, rs the officers and all Con- ~
cerned are very reticent about !"
whole matter. -,
There was hut one person arrrs'e' W.
that was lootblack named Gecfn
PATHS, who, some Of the parties Say ,ls
nothing TO do with the affair: hana'
ton passed a teverish and restless nlsS' sis
and seemed to be suffering intense pam
The respectable colored people in !. 10, ID
vicinity say that the gang has long rs' M
a terror to the neighborhood, ana T,I s.I
raj seem ed to think if the officerS ns
been less leinent with these rousus
the past, the affair last night ~0aA
never have happened.