Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-05
STABBED N FOUR PLACES
CONVICT GUARD SHUMNN HAS
AN UGLY ENCOUNTER.

Set Upon in Cooper shop Lane anC
Frightmlly Hacked by Noun.
Negro Whose Place He Entered
Mob Tries to Hide the Assailan
From the Policc-Thrcats u shoe
the Negro in the Officers Hands
The Wounded Man at the Hos
pital.
1t has been many days since IamacraN
was so convulsed with excitement as il
was about noon yesterday. For quar-
ter OF an hour tie streets and lanes were
thronged with a mass Of men, women ana
children, rushing hither ana tblther' yeA-
ing themselves hoarse, gesticulatins eN-
citedly aud many OF them cursing every
body else with little Discrimination. VII
liam Smith, young mulaito'
who was trying TO get away from the mob
was the cause OF the unusual excitement
About 80 O'Clock smith stabbed WI
liam l. shuman. chief of the county con-
Wet camp. There are different versions
Of the affair. one story was that Shuman
Rnda guard went down into the western
section of the Guy IN quest Of woman,
an escaped convict. According to this
story they tound her IN a house on Cooper
shop lane at the corner of Farm street.
Shumau went INSIDE to arrest her, ana
Smith. who Was n the house, interposed,
and inally cut ShCmau and ran. AT all
events, SmIlu tried Dard toescape.
SHOT AT FOUR TIMES.
As he ran Shuman shot at
him four times. The reports
oil the pistol emptIed all the
houses along Cooper SHOP laue before the
smoke cleared away. As the denizens
OF the lane poured out into the open air
they saw three or four men running. The
oneiu the lead was a coiored man and the
sympathIes Of those Of his race was
aroused and they took up the race to help
the fugitive escape if possible. Down
Zubly street the crowd pursued, getting
larger every block. Directly smith dis
appeared in yard. AS many as could
crowd through followed.
Smith kept a good distance ahead OF the
white men who Were trying TO capture
him. He leu them through yards and over
fences some say Tor 30 minutes. EVIL
IDENTIFY he knew the ground we'll, and half
OF The time he was not in view. The pur-
suers kept on though in the direction he
seemed to be going. and every little While
they could catch glimpse OF him as he
scaled a fence or crossed a lane.
A MOB IN ''THE CRAw."
Some Of the residents OF the Craw
Slammed their gates and ordered the
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Little need was paid to orders, and the
mob smashed gates and tore down fences
in the chase. Once some one caught sight
OF Smith and fired at him, but he kept on.
In the meantime shuman had jumped
into his buggy and driven rapidly up
town for physician. His face and cloth
ing were covered with blood, aud quiet
citizens on tue streets wondered what
terrible tragedy had occurred. At Haber-
sham and south Broad streets Shuman
was seen by the officers in the barracks.
As soon as the circumstances Of the
cutting were learned Sergt killOurhy
dispatched mounted Officer Fleming in
search Of Shuman's assallant. When DO-
liceman Fleming reached Farm street the
crowd was still in pursuit. Presently
though, the hOrseman saw smith emerge
from yard, and spurringup his horse he
soon overhauled the fugitive.
ATOUGH PRISONER TO HANDLE.
The policeman had considerable trouble
with MS prisoner. The cOlOred pOpula-
ton made demonstration as il to take
Smith away and for a lew minutes things
looked serious. Policeman Bender came
up and helped Officer Fleming. The negro
women were loud in their threats against
The policemen, aad kept urging the men
10 attack tue officers. Fleming and Ben
der, with their prisoner, started for the
barracks surrounded Toy mob. When
they reached West Broad there were
1900 people IN the street.
King, convict gua5d, who was with
Shuman, said that he wanted to kill Smith.
The excitement increased, and King had
TO be disarmed. All the way TO the bar
racks the policemen were tollO we'd bv
perfect thfong.
sBUMAN's WOUNDS NOT FATAL.
Shuman drove from the barracks to DR..
James b. K lads office, where his wounds
We're dressed. aud from there he went to
st. Joseph's lnhrmary. He had one cut
across mis- left temple and one unuer the
jaw and TWO in his back. They are all
ugly wounds but are not fatal, and Shuman
viii probably get over them before long.
he has been chief Of the convict camp for
two years, and was guard for three
years before be was made chief. He was
not allowed 20 talk. Ii was reported that
be mlstook Smith for an escaped convict
and undertook 10 arrest him.
Smith is "A tall, 1.-the, light-complected
young fellow, who has been working for
Messrs. Smith a Kelly. TO a NEWS re-
porter Smith said:
THE PRISONER 5 STORY.
Il was standing IN a door on Cooper
Shop lane, talking to a man who was Sit
ting down eating oysters. Snuman and
two other men came up, and Shuman
said something to the man who
was eating about his mouth. The
two got to cursing each other.
and Shuman struck the cOlored
man with a whip. The man went inside
the house aud ohuman cursed me and cut
me with his whip. ! told him he could
not do that out in the lane and | stepped
out OF the door. He cursed me again and
cursed him back. Then he struck me
with bis whip again and somebody hit
me with brick or something from behind.
When they did that cut"
Smiths right hand was stained
Win blood. lie said that he did the cut
ting with knife.