Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-12-10
GArLlNa GUN FOR a HOB.
Firing Upon . Oroat crowd who At
tack Jan to Lynch = Murderer
Terrible Genes Of BloOdshed.

few minutes after 10 O'Clock this morn
Ing for the purpose OF lynching X. K.
Hames, confined there for the murder of
his wife and child. The sheriff turned a
ehatling gun upon the mob. Nine men
were killed and thirty others wounded in
the brief battle that followed.
THE CAUSES LEADING TO THE ATTACK.
The past week has been season Of
sensation iu Birmingham. On Tuesday
morning the body OF May Hswes, a IA.
year old girl, was taken from the waters
of East Lake. On Wednesday the re
mains were identified, and the father, r.
Il Halves, was arrested charged with
murder of his chlld. On Thursday and
| Friday the Coroner's inquest developed
some very sensational facts and Iynchlng
was freely talked Of Yesterday the dead
body Of Mrs HRWes was found In the
bottom Of the lake at Lake View. About
200 pouuds of lead had been fastened TO
the body to hold 1t under thewater The
woman's skull had been evidently crush
ed In with an axe. As the body lay upon
the bank the crowd of curiOus and in.
dignaDt spectators was .momentarily in.
creased until It swel1ed into Burging
multitude. The feelings of rage increas-
| ed with each moment until 1t threatened
to become a frenzy. Fierce threats OF
vegeance were heard Ths woman's skin
had been wrlnkled aud blesched by the
water, and it Is evidC at that she had been
under wafer for several days. Shortly be-
fore the body Of the woman was dragged
from the lake another party searching
around the house ioi Ger sly hid be
meath the front doOl a tightly wrap
ped bundle Of blood hes about the
size Of those worn b, 5ungest child.
] They wgrn nVl11uttv ~ he ItttIa ona
when she was so cru murdered The
evidence against Ha complete He
killed his wife aud Two children and
marrit d young girl all within week.
THE ATTACK ON THE JAIL
Public Indignation continued to Increase
| in intensity until at midnight the crowd
was mad with rage. At that hour 80 o
people bad gathered around the Jail, de-
termined TO lynch HaWes.
] The shefih had drawn dead line and
said when anybody crossed that line he
would give the guards in the jail the com
mand to fire. by degrees the crowd came
nearer and nearer the line The outer
door Of the jail, facing the new Court.
house was open aud on the narrow plat
! form aud stone steps leading TO the door
| were gathered a dczen determined men,
under the lead Of Chief Pickard and
Sheriff Smith, all armed with Winchester
rifles aud with numerous rounds Of cart
| ridges and Cat ing gun.
"Shoot directly into the crowd" were
the Instructions issued by sheriTf Smith,
and the dozen policemen and deputy
sberitfs on duty patiently awaited tho on
sl1ugh. of the expected crowd with a
| duty to law aud order that could not be
easily mistaken. On the root OF the jail
number OF men, all armed with Winches-
ter rifles, were stationed and these men
were likewise under instructions to pre-
vent the entrance Of the crowd into the
a ley leailng to the jail.
At midnight the shouts of tho ap-
| proachlng crowd could be plainly heard
The shouts grew closer and ouder still.
/ mas OF men appeared in the entrance
TO the slley, and in a loud voice She III
Smith ordered them out of the alley at
the peril OF their lives. 1t was very dark
AID impossible to distinguish the exact
place he men at the entrance to the
alley were located. Some ere evidently
on the opposite side of the street Again
the mass of human flesh appeared In the
entrance to the alley.
81 am going t. shoot at three" called
out the Sheriff. "One, two, three !'' but
the sheriff nor his men did not fire 81
will fire at i've" again announced the
sheriff.
The officers could see the forms of the
meu creeping up the alleyWay toward the
jail. Again the sharp voice OF the Sheriff
called cut tone" two" etc, and when
"fYe" had bsea reached he called out
''fTe P' A perfect fusilade followed, and
when the smoke cleared away the alley
leading to tie jail door was blocked with
dead and wounded men, No less than
for men fell to the ground, nine
wounded unto death
The mob broke at once, It's constituents
separating in all directions. The dead
and wounded were picked up and csrrled
where the latter could be given medical
attention. At the drug stores, physcians'
offices, at the hospitals and undertaking
rooms heartrending scenes wtre wit
messed.
THE MILITIA ON HAND,
After the appearance of toe military at
the Jail aud removal of all the killed and
wounded the crowd which had again as
sembled in the vicinity began to disperse,
b At soon congIegated again at points
lurther down town. At 10 o'clock this
morning the I'd Alabama Regiment. COM
posed of thirte companies, reached the
city, commanded by Colonel Thomas g.
Jones. The presence of soldiers seems
only to augment the rage Of the mob.
At o'clock this afternoon about 1000
men assembled two squares from jail.
Their ranks were rapidly swelling when
the military marched in on the congrega-
tion, and at the points Of bayonets dis
persed them for the time
THE KILLING OF THE POSTMASTER,
At $50 O'Clock Maurice B. Tbrock.
morton, postmaster, of Birmingham,
than whom there was not q mere popu-
laTlman, breathed his last Mr.. Throck-
morton had just arrived on the scene and
finding several OF his friends In front of
house where they lived, he went in to be
with them. When he saw the crowd
pressing toward the front be stepped up
10 the fence and tried 10 reason with
shem and beg them to go to their homes.
While he was in the act of forcing the
crowd back he was shot by ball from q
Winchester ride. The ball struck him 10
the lower part of the stomach and he
asked his wife be sent for at once. He
was picked up and carried 10 the house
and DR. Luekie called 10. Mr.. ThrOck-
morton died IN half an hour.
YergeE's, 4l9 shipley street, is the
place for picture frames and pictures.
A large stock IeNdY framed.