Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-12
A MADDENED MOB
ATTEMPTS TO LYNCH THE xuRpgars
COLEMAN At P0RrsMoUrH.
The military Ordered eut-k Mob Makes q
Bush for ths Station HOuss-Re-
pulsed by Police, Etc.

NoRFoLE. September IA tremen.
dous excitement was created in Ports
mouth this morning by the arrival OF
Henry Albert Coleman, the negro mur-
derer Of James Grant. the dairyman
back OF Norfolk. One half the town.
white and black, turned out and visited
the vicinity OF the jail, expecting TO Get
81 glimpse of the murderer or see some
sort Of demonstration. The prisoner
was carried over from Norfolk in the
custody Of hief-of.Police ROLAND and
ms assistants and sixteen officers. sur
rounded by the Norfolk City Guard,
and was met at the wharf in Ports
month 10y Chief-of- Police lyman and
q squad Of men. Over hundred peo.
pie followed the procession from Nor
folk and the throng swelled considera-
10y larger 10y the time the jail was
reached. on the corner Of Washington
and High streets The military drew up
ln front Of the Jail entrance and the pri.
soner was quickly hustled into the dun
Ceon. All this imposing parade was ne.
co.sary % provide against tho threats OF
Che mob 90 lynch the prisoner and the
81 inifcsJ desire to get at him. To IN
sure the delivery OF the prisoner to the
Norfolk county authorities he was hand
cu,'ed to tso Norfolk policemen. so that
IS WIS impossible 70 have dragged him
away. Sheriff Bunting, of the county,
vss informed that mob was organizing
SOD huntersvllle 10 assault the lail and he
81 once applied to Mayor j. Thompson
Baird, of Portsmouth, 10 order out the
military of the city, which was promptly
done, and the Old Dominion Guard, I'M
der command Of Captain James NJ. Bin
ford. have been patroling Portsmouth all
d4v. At noon Justice A. W. Hawks, Of
Hlntersville, visited the Jail and had
tie prisoner brought before him In the
Chce. and he was formally committed
f.r tn days. Unless Judge Parker or
5.rs o special grand jury term of the
County Court the prisoner will not be
tiei until December.
Among a certain class in Norfolk there
was great excitement nearly all night.
aai about half-past O'Clock this morn
cr an attempt was made to take the
murderer from the station house and
.,uch him. A mob of about seventy-fve
r.r,ouS young men and boys. some
with colorcd handkerchiefs over their
fces for masks, made rush on the en-
trance 70 the station, butth detachment
o. police fought them back and repuised
tlCm with their bilies and then stood
vtl 'raVn revolyers. After a short
struggle the mob retired before the de-
termred front of the police, and with
sticks and stones smashed IN every win
GaV-g'ass in front OF the station. house.
~ o'clock Mayor Ii. c. Banks ap-
p.arrd on the scene and addressed
i.t rioters IN cOnciliatory speech,
appealing for submission to the
Jaws. The speech had a good effect, and
t.e mob gave three cheers for the Mayor
m1 3 dispersed Sergeant MOrdecai WIS
hurt ty Giving fragments of glass. Two
of the foremost rioters, young men
llmei brown and Holland, vino had
-.rlr faces concealed. were captured by
tte police. and this morning Polce-Jus-
ur. Baum sent them on 10 court for
tlnA rveN thing Is now quiet, though
large tnr0ng Of people huger around
-e j1'l IN loItsmuuth, and II Is not
r-.nlhle there Will be any further
monstrstioD. The military viii remain
or duty al night, however IN Ports
uth. The murderer 10 his confession
t Us tlc manner 10 winch he killed ms
victim With on axe, and SAYS he did SO
l,plse Mr.. Grant owed him money and
would not pay It. He says he did not
llteui To kll Mrs Louisa Spratt
colonel X. G.. Hulglus. commanding
t, Fourth regiment of Virginia voun-
te,rs. to-day ie.eguphed Governor Lee
THAR the Nayorof Portsmouth had made
r.guisinon upon him for troops to guard
the jml against any violence, and that
he bad ordered out one company and
would send more If necessary. Gov
rnor Lee Immediately sent the follow
,-c reply:
"D.'oacl H e. H3gjna, Command-
nv TourH Virginia Rcgimcnt
t0rf't, a.:
Dispatch received The negro
E.. man now iu iah in Portsmouth
.t Dee protected from violence If it
4s al the troops under your com
-all. FlTzHUGH LEE"