Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-11
A MOB REFUSED.
Birmingham, Ala, the Scene
OF a Bloody Riot
RIFLEs AND A GATLING GUN USED
WITH DEADLY EFFECT.

the Governor demanding thu Removal
Of sheriH smIth--A Regiment OF Soldiers
Now Guarding the jail.
BIRMKaHAM, Ala, Dec. tl.--1'he Halves
gburder mystery has been solvedi A terrible
riot has resulted. The mob stormed
the jail, bent ON lynchinS Hawes, the MUIR
derer. sheritrs posse opened fire on the
maddened crowd and shot 70 kill As the
vollcys rang sharply on the air a score OF
citizens threw up their hands with wild cries
and groans Of pain and sunk to the ground
dying or wounded. There were ten killed
outright, two fatally shot and ten wounded
more or less severely. The city Is in atumult
OF intense excitement and Hawes is still safe
in Jail.
The story Of the terrible affair is as fol.
lows:
Saturday afternoon the announcement
was given out that the mutilated body Of the
missing mother, Mrs. Emma X. Halves,
whose daughter May was murdered, had
IReen found in the murky waters Of the lake
Au Lakevicw, a suburban resort, and half
mile only from Eastlake, where the body OF
her daughter May was recovered. The
rumor proved true, and in half an hour
thousands Of excited men, women and chill
dren hurried forward to the lake. The sus-
picion had gone abroad early in the day that
likely the body had been sccreted there. as it
was only about 200 yards from the Halves
hcTne
About II o'clock four determined men set
to work to drag the lake with graphing
hooks. Near ii o'clock one of the hooks
efrxrok a haavv rtaIdfng an1hafnnoa and onon
tine mutilated corpse lay on the bank.
The combined strength Of four men was
required TO land It, The body was weighted
down with heavy pieces OF "fsh-plate" rail
road iron tied around the neck and waist of
the murdered woman. She was completely
clad, and around her neck and waist were
tod heavy scarlet cords known to have been
at the Halves residence, to which were at
tached six iron pieces weighing about ten
pounds each.
The back OF the dead womnn's skull shows
the horrible story Of the tragedy. 1t had
been crushed In with some blunt instrument,
presumably an AK The entire occipital
bone is crushed in, and there is gaping
cavity that Is ouly half concealed by her
heavy auburn hair. Her right hand was
badly skinned across the back, az IL injured
in a struggle for life, and the appearance of
had been in the water several days. The
body as soon as found was taken to the shore
and laid out with the iron weights which
had held it to the bottom still tied around
the neck and waist.
As 1t lay on the bank the crowd Of curious
and indignant spectators crowded around
and momentarily increased until it swelled
into n surging multitude. The feeling OF
Es@Fror, rage and desperation increased mo-
uhentarily until 1t reached the point Of
frenzy Fierce threats of vengeance were
heard cunning from lips whose utterances the
people OF Birmingham have long since
learned TO know mean what they say, and
strong men almost cried in the intensity of
their excitement.
Meanwhile the search for the body Of the
youngest child OF MIRA HAYES went on but
up to o'clock Sunday night it had not been
found
Late Saturday afternoon mob began to
congregADe at Second and Third avenues and
Nineteenth street. It swelled to fully 10000
in number Talk of lynching Halves and
his two negro accomplices in the murder was
heard on every hand
By Mayor Thompson's order Marshal Pack
ard had surrounded the Jail with large
posse. These mon we're armed with Win
chester rln 20 and Calling gun
At midnight Saturday the mob around the
county Jail began slowly pressing back the
oaa@r guard. and advanced down Twenty
frat street To the mouth of the alley leading
to tao jail entrance. The alley is about a
hundred feet long and twenty wide, and is
the only approach to the jail When the
crowd reached the mouth of the alley Sheriff
Smith, from the Jail, warned them to stand
back time and gain He yelled TO them to
keep back, "a they would be fred on if they
advanced up the alley Finally he called
ort:'' will count three, and IL a man re-
mains in the alley we will fire.
lie counted three, and the crowd feel back
little, aud the officers did not fire. This
seemed 10 make the mob holder and again
they pressed up the alley. Sheriff Smith
Yelled TO them: II will count five, and if
you do not fall back we will fire" He
counted FIVE, while the mob hooted, yelled
and continued to advance up the alley. Then
the officers opened fire, which was at once re-
II turned by the mob
At least thousand shots were fired Then
& the uaou fell back leaving the ground covered
wit @9fead and wounded men. Several dead
were hnrriedly carried away by their friends
before identified.
Postmaster NJ. b. Throckmorton was shot
n through the body and is dead. He was near
the front OF the mob trying to dispense it.
The killed are, Frank Childer, NJ. b.
n Throckmorton, postmaster; j. II. Mccoy, A.
! b Tarrant, A. d. Bryant, &. g. Tate,
painter; Colbert Smith, colored; unknown
I man, co.ored; Charles Jenkins, - Bran
+ den
The fatally wounded are, Charles Bailey,
+ Louisville 81 Nashville brakeman; A. ].
Schiede, mechanic,
The other wounded are, j. w. Mont
Comery, ---- Berkeley, John II. Merritt,
: Matt Kennedy, J. w. Owen, carpenter, j.
Fl W. Gilmore, Albert Smith, colored W. A.
Bird, L. Rsichwein, Lawrence FItzhugh,
= civil engineer.
Halves was seen in the Jail after the at
.ack. He appeared unconeerned and saids
tYes, | know what the shooting meant
4 That crowd wanted my life and they can
have it."
He seemed to feel that the mob would sue
coed in setting in the Jail, and he dressed
himself and expressed his readiness TO ac-
81 40, Nsz@v tha crowd as soon as they reached