Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-01
THE DANVILLE RIOT.

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Washington, March 3l.-J. G. En-.
right, white, testiiied.before the Dan.
vile committee that he left the opera
house with Jas. 5. Johnson, who ac-
c0rding to previous witnesses was
said to have killed two colored men
during the riot. Witness said he
was with johnson during the riot, and
Johnson did not fire at all.
J. Il. Perkins, white said there were
firing on both sides. Five or six shots
We're fired by the colored people.
Il. j. Thompson saw pistols in the
hands of the colored men; about rs
many as in the hands of the whites.
r. S. Asbom heard one colored man
say when the officers were trying to
arrest them: 1--WE mean fight.h Saw
colored men with pistols saw them
fire over their shoulders as they ran.
One negro said he was mot satisfied
with this thing and should not be
until he saw Danville burned down.
Chas. H. Conrad, tobacco manufac-
turer AZ Danville, was standing be-
hind Capt. Graves, with his eve on
Capt. Graves pistol, at the time he
was said to have shot Geo. Adams.
Witness stated positively that Graves
Adams. He was. chairman of the
Democratic ward club, and in posi-
ton to know there was no premedita.
ton to bring about the riot.
ID. Richardson (white) was called.
He saw one colored man shoot twice.
Geo. NJ. Hubbard (white) was pa
trolling during the night with others,
and shots were fired at his party and
returned. Witness was wounded i'm
the leg and his horse was wounded by
the same shot.
In the course of the cross-eXamina-
ton by Sherman, witness asserted
with much earnestness that it was
mistake to suppose there was prejudice
against the negro. The prejudice was
against thelow-down whites, the scum
OF the earth, that came down there
from the North-,men who got the me-
groes into trouble and then deserted
them.
senator Sherman asked If the ne
giroes under any circumstances stood
cnance of getting their rights to elect
Officers, they being in the majority.
~ Yes. sir, If they vote with me.
mats lift they vote with me. You
Will never see it as long as you live,
nor as long as live either, that set of
men who own property and are trying
10 ouild up a town and husband their
resources and accumulate wealth will |
ever allow negroes to come in and con-
troi that town. You may just sci that |
gov. as a sure thing. That is the de-
lloerate purpose of the property hold
ers to prevent that. say 1t emphat-
lcally, but only by fair means.u
But you have already told us that |
majority of those who owned prop.
erty VIII not allow that government to |
pass from their hands into the negroes
hands, and worse still into the hands
OF this poor white scum.n
We'll, we despise those worse than
the negroes; worse than the devil"
Green Williams, chief of police of
tahvllle. was examined. He saw the |
I,ot from short distance, and saw
sshooting from. both directions. Before
tne election he heard Squire Toliver
lcoiored make speech, in which he |
auvised his auditors to go to the polls |
witn loaded arms; people did not go
hunting with empty arms. TThe au-
uiehce cheered. Witness described |
THREATS which had been made by col
lows who should vote the |
democratic ticket. Witness named
ahen TO whom these threats We're made |
anu from whom he received the in
formation.
v, flames Woods, city sergeant of Dan
ssmie, Republican, described his ef-
I n9 70 restore and preserve the peace.
ne - was satisfied the riot was a sudden
and not premeditated
auair; On cross.examination witness
s oa II would not have been safe to
, ,i out the colored militia. He
n mought It would prevent violence to
b ba inc Democratic party in control;
He Thought 1t would aggravate the
,neenng TO put colored men on the
Adjourned