The morning news., 1888-11-30

five minutes after the information
reached the barracks, the ambulance and
mounted officers were at the scene of the
trouble Chief Green and Sergt. Lining
arrived shortly after with mounted squad
and the rioters were dispersed. They hung
about the lanes, and IN the dives all the
afternoon, but the streets were kept clear.
A squad of officers was kept in readiness
in case of an outbreak, but by 10 O'Clock
last night everything was quiet, and the
police do not fear any further trouble.
M'MURRAY's STATEMENT.
AS soon as the ambulance arrived, Nc
Murray was taken to st. Joseph's Infirmary,
wounds. The wounded officer was seen by
! a MORNING NEWS reporter last night. He
said that he was on Farm street few min
utes before II o'clock. AS he passed Pine
street he met a large crowd of negroes, and
ordered them to get off the sidewalk and
they did so. He went on farther
toward New street, and had gone but a
negroes. One of them remarked that he
was going to have the other arrested, and
called to the officer The other replied.
60 he officer" McMuTray turned
| and arrested him. He was quickly sur
rounded. One of the crowd shouted: 60
you, | will kill you" The negro caught
| hold of the officers club, and, wrenching it
| twice. McMurray drew his revolver and
tho negro caught 1t and tried to strike him
! again with his club. McMurray succeeded
in wrenching the pistol from him and began
shooting. The negro ran down Farm
toward Orange, and the officer pursued
him, firing as he ran. Running up on a
stoop near the corner OF Farm and Orange
streets. tho negro tried to push open the
door of the house, but it was closed against
him.
RUN DOWN AND CAPTURED.
McMurray followed him up the steps and
arrested him. In going down the steps to
tho sidewalk the negro fell and said: ~
am dying" McMurray left him there and
went back up the street, where the fracas
began, to get his helmet Before he had
gone far he was attacked by a mob of 800
or 400 men and women, armed with sticks,
rocks and clubs. The men were cursing and
the women we e screaming at the top Of
their voices: xiii tue - rascal" Be-
fore he had time to defend himself he was
set upon by the MOI and was knocked down.
Regaining his feet he ran into house kept
by Pearl Prendergast. The mo- followed
him, and. being refused admittance, they
broke in the windows AID doors, and enter
ing began clubbing him again. He was
thrown into the street, where he was beaten
until he was insenshle.
Policeman Lysaught, of the Ocean Steam
ship force vas in a barber shop ON Bay street
being shaved when he heard the shooting.
Picking up his coat, belt and pistol, he
hurried to Farm street. As he passed
Quinn's house he saw McMurray lying on
the floor. The street was filed with an
excited crowd, shouting "Go for him, "kill
him."
Patrolman Sweeny of the Ocean steam
ship force arrived soon afterward and ar
rested William Hamilton, one of the leaders
of the mob.
MMURRAY's PROTECTOR.
The Prendergast woman into whose house
McMurray ran, said tnat she heard the
firing, but she thought II was firecrackers.
She opened the front door to look out, and
had hardly got the door open before Nc
Murray came running up on the stoop all
covered with blood, crying: Save me, save
me" and rushed into the house in stoop-
ing posture. She shut and locked the
door, but by this time the mob had got to
the house and had broken in the door.
They swarmed over the fence into the
back yard. She stood in front Of
the door with her dress covering McMurray
and confronted the mob when the door was
burst in. Selling hold of her they hurled
her through window sash at the side
of the room, at the same time
beating her over the head. McMurray
attempted to get out the back door, but
he was stopped by crowd of women who
had scaled the fence. One of them seized
an axe in the yard and struck him with
the fat side, telling him to the floor. He
was then dragged INTO the street.
BRINGING IN THE RIOTERS.
Chief Fernandez Of the fire department
was among the first to reach the scene of
the riot and succeeded in arresting one Of
the ringleaders. The negro was crouched
in chimney corner under a hut. The
chief crawled under the house and pulled
him out. Officer Stegins, while hunting for
some of the instigators of the affray, met a
young negro who told him that he knew one
of the parties implicated in it. The officer
started with the negro to an out of
the way place where, in all probability, he
would have suffered as the other officers had
when a white boy whispered to him that
the negro was one OF the rioters himself,
and that he saw him when he struck Officer
Cronin. Stegins arrested the negro and
carried both the prisoner and the white boy
to the barracks. The name Of the boy was
taken and he was summoned as a witness
against the negro this morning.
DIED FROM HIS WOUNDS.
Mike Tillman, the negro whom McMur-
ray is supposed to have shot, was carried
out to the homo of his mother, on Lumber
street, near Little Jones street, and DIR. B.
+. Sheftall was summoned The .physician
found eight bullet holes in the lower part
Of his abdomen and thighs. 1t is likely that
the balls passed through the body. The
wounds were dressed, but Tillman died in a
short time. Coroner Dixon was notified,
but owing to his inability to secure wit
nesses last night tha inquest was postponed
until this morning.
EIGHT OF THE RIOTERS ARRESTED.
Tho police had arrested eight of the
rioters up TO last night, and are ON the
track of others. 1t is believed that several
of the leaders are wounded, but that they
are kept in hiding. At midnight Farm
street was as quiet as the Bay. Officer
McMurray was resting quietly at
the infrmary. The last report from Cronin
was favorable. McMurrey was considered
brave officer He is about 25 years old,
and was transferred from the Ocean Steam
ship force a short time ago He was formerly
a member of the Savannah, Florida q