The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-12-20
BLOODY RIOT IN ALABAMA.
Lynchers Repalssd from . Jail In Alabama With
. Loss or Fifteen or Twenty Lives.

Lynchers Rspalssd from . jail In Alabama With
. Loss Of Fifteen or Twenty Lives.
This is q Birmingham, Alabama, telegram
Of Dec, 9th. Since the discovery of the iden-
tity of the murdered girl, May Hawes, and
the fact that her mother was missing, it has
been suspected that the latter was also MUIR
dered. The body Of the missing woman was
found Of the bottom Of q lake in the park,
hall q mile from the cottage where the lam
lily had lived and Ave miles from East lake,
where the body Of little May HAYES wa
found. The head Of the dead woman had
been crushed by y blow with an ak and the
body was kept at the bottom of the lake by
two hundred pounds OF iron fastened about
finding. the body, other circnm-
stantial evidence has been found against
Dick Hawes, the husband of the dead woman.
A mob advanced on the Jail at midnight for
the purpose of lynching Hawes. The officer
fred several volleys into the mob. Nine men
were killed and many wounded. Among
the killed was the postmaster of this place.
The mob made an attack on the Jail at
11:30 p. M. As they approached the alley
way leading to the Jail, the officers
called to them. to halt which they
did. The officers then fired with Win
chesters and pistols, and the firing was ter
rife for fifteen minutes on both sides.
ANOSAO VI CuO OuANCAC lhJuACuy " WV
twenty of the mob were killed and wounded.
Among the wounded is M. B. T~hrockmorton,
postmaster of Birmingham, who was endeav-
oring to persuade the mob to dispense.
Adolph Shiebe, OF the Louisville 4 Nashville
railroad, was also fatally wounded in the
neck. TIL patrol wagon carted of the dead
and wo,ndedto the hos pital. The firing was
commenced by the police, but equally as
many shots were fred by tile mob. Over Ave
hundred rounds were fired. The rifles,
zouaves and guards are now in possession
of all the streets leading to the Jail. Inside
thejail the bullets fred by the mob whistled
around those confined there. Sheriff Smith
gave the order to fire. No further attack ia
anticipated. A desultory fire was kept up-for
half an hour. Halves, the murderer, was in
different throughout the riot.
ATE ACCOUNTS.
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 9.-When the crowd
which had been collecting on the streets for
several hours advanced On the county Jail
with the intention Of lynching r. II. Halves,
charged with the murder of his wife and child,
many OF the best citizens tried to reason with
them and prevent trouble and some lost their
lives in the attempt. When the crowd was
within q few feet on the Jail door and had failed
to heed numerous warnings, the officers open
ed fire on them, killing three men instantly,
fatally wounding seven and wounding more
or less seriously about thirty Others.
IA list of names follows showing thirteen
deaths to date, with more to follow
, THE SHERIFF %cENsURED.
1t is generally believed that the recklessness
and haste Of the sheriff in giving the COM
mand to fire was assassination, and it is
stated on all sides thut the immense gather
ing was not for the purpose at all of forcing
the Jail, but rather out Of curiosity. There
was never any real danger of an assault.
There is no calm in the public mind, and the
n~nstnpoa ~ % r. - <rvnnfon fhnr, horof1fobn Tn
the light of the nights ~terrors, the Halves Of
fair has almost disappeared. and the indig-
nation expressed is directed against
Sheriff Smith and the posse who
let go the fearful voliey. And
the city is military en%campment.
Col. Jones of Montgomery, with two mill
tary companies is absolutely in charge of at
fnirs. The Jail is guarded by state troops
with picket lines extended several squares in
every direction, and at each approach there
frowns the countenance of q gatling gun.
Mounted scouts are sent out of the city, and
at regular intervals %acquaint Col. Jones with
the condition of the public mind and pros
Fire bells sound military alarms and soldiers
in uniform and armed with Winchester
rifles have desolated the principal streets
and driven back the thousands who
have all day been looking toward the
jail. In the meanwhile citizens have not
kept RlILlH NQOFS. 1u0y hive CVHkT6&dtGu
in hotels, or ON the street corners and infront
of bulletin boards. The streets has been q
living maddened mass, and very little ora
torical pyrotechnics could readily organ
ize q mob who sesolemn duty would be de-
clared to be to avenge the murderer of the
popular Mr.. Throckmorton and those who
fell by him. All along the walls of the city
are posted petitions of various kinds, signed
by thousands of people. One of these recites
at length the fact that Sheriff Smith had
butchered in cold blood some of the best citi-
zens of Birmingham by an act as unpro-
voked as unnecessary, and asked Gov. Seay
to immedia tely relieve him of his duties as
sheriff. Another petition side by side reads,
''This is to hang him." and was signed by
thousands of passers by. The military were
called upon to arrest Smith and others i'm
plicated, but this was refused, and finally q
citizen went before Q justice Of the peace and
swore out q warrant for the arrest of Smith
and his deputies on the charge Of murder;
This was served by the coroner, who found
Smith in jail, and the coroner himself took
charge of the jail and in his custody that in
stitutiOn is at present. e.
There are already ten military companies
under command of Col. Jones, and five others
will arrive on special trains by midnight.
The famous Montgomery Greys, the equally
famous True Blues, the Montgomery Mounted
Rifles, under command of Hon. A. A. Wiley,
member of the present legislature. and an
artillery company in churge Of Calling gun
hive arrived here from the capitol city. Be-
sides these, companies from Tuscaloosa, Ope-
lika, Greenville aud Admission and other
Alabama cities came. One pr~ecaution
against undue excitement and consequent
violence was taken BY the city council, which
in special session ordered that all saloons
and drug stores be closed until further no.
tice.
go SMITH s1+
As to the occurrences of last night, Sheriff
said: 49, e.
We begged and pleaded with the crowd to
keep back and then they fired the first shot.
Several shots were fired by the crowd before ]
gave the order to fire. We begged them to
halt at the mouth of the alley, and still they