The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-10
Angry Mob
AND TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER.
Citizens of Birmingham, Ala,
Attempt to Lynch a Brutal
Murderer,
And Are Repulsed by the Guards,
Who Are Armed With
Winchesters.
FRIGHHFUL Loss OF LIFE.
Leading Citizens, Among Them
the Postmaster, Shot to
Death in the Street.
4 Night of Terror in the Iron City Of
thr SontIl-A Murderous ScOun.
drsl ls Protected ut the Cost
Of Many Lives.

drel IL Protected ut the Cost
Of Many Lives.
BrRMrSGMAM, ALA, Dec. "a crowd
which had been collecting on the streets
70, several hours last night, at mid
might advanced on the county Jail
with the intention OF lynching II.
lIawcs, charged with the murder OF
his mother and sisters. Many of the
hest citizens tried to reason with the
crowd and prevent trouble, and some
lost their lives in the attempt. When
the crowd was within few feet OF the
iail door and had failed to heed numer.
GUS warnings the officers opened fire on
them, killing three men instantly, fa-
tally wounding seven and wOunding
more or less seriously about 30 others.
The following is full list OF the killed
and wounded.
NJ. B. THRocKMORToN, Postmaster, and
avery prominent and popular citizen.
He leaves wife aud one child.
An unknown negro was shot through
the lungs and died this morning.
]. K. Mccoy was toward the front OF
the crowd when the firing commenced.
He fell at the first voIley.
A. b. TARRANT was shot in the back
and died shortly afterwards.
A. d. BRYANT was shot through the
heart. lie was standing rather near the
front and was doing his best to restrain
the crowd from going any nearer. He
fell at the first volley and died in
stantly.
&C. TALE was shot through the hip,
thigh and lOn. He is dying.
Coz. BEEr SMITH wat shot through
the right lung. He died this morning.
LAWRENCE FITZHUGH, civil engineer,
baiiy wounded. He was shot through
the shoulder. He is 30 years old.
CHARLES RILEY was shot through the
head, it is thought fatally.
Al. ScmEDE. mechanic, swas shot
in the left side Just under the shoulder.
II thought that he will die.
CnAs. JENKINS was shot in the back
Of the head. He lived until 10 o'clock
this morning. Jenkins was twenty years
old.
BRASDEN, at the hospital, wounded in
the thigh and abdomen, died ut 10
o'clock this morning.
J. W. MONTGOMERY received slight
wound in the left jaw,
Mr. BERKELEY was shot through both
legs below the knee while sitting on the
rear porch ot his residence, ,.5
CHAs. BAILEY, a brakeman on the
Louisville 4 Nashville railroad, was shot
in right side. His home is in Boston;
wound may prove serious.
JonN B. MERRIrr, at hospital, shot
through the calf OF the left leg.
MATT KENNEDY, at hospital, shot in
both legs below the knee, the right be-
ingbadly shattered.
J. \. Owen, at hospital, shot through
the right thigh.
J. W. GILMORE, it is thought, is fatally
wounded through the bowels.
FRANE Cnu.DER is dead.
albert SAITH, colored, was shot in the
back and seriously wounded.
W. A. BIRD was shot in the right
shoulder, the ball passing entirely
through him and coming out near the
spinal cord. Mr.. Bird is 80 years old
and unmarried.
Colonel Thomas G. jones, OF the Sec
ond regiment Of Alabama State troops,
arrived here this morning with five com
panies and is confident OF his ability TO
prevent any further attempt at mob vio-
Ience. There was much excitement for
while last night, but it has subsidized
somewhat to-day.
The crime with which Hawes stands
charged is one OF the most horrible in
the annals OF Alabama, and the disCov-
cry OF the body OF the murdered woman
yesterday solved the mystery that hns
surrounded the case. The body OF
Halves child, little Irene, has not yet
been recovered.
Az o'clock the public mind, already
TrOughthp to the highest tension by the
Developments OF the last Ave days, was
set aiiTe anew by the startling announce
Ment that the
FouLLY MURDERED
and mutilated body of the missing
mother, Mrs, Emma X. Hawes, had been
found in the murky water OF the lake at
lakeyiew, half mile only from East
lake, where the body OF her daughter
Nay was recovered. The rumor proved
true, aud in half an hour thousands Of
excited men, women and children hur-
ried forward 10 the lake. The suspicion
had gone abroad early in the day that
likely the body had been seCreted there,
as 1t was only about two hundred yards
IRON the Hawes' home.
About II o'clock four determined men
set to work to drag the lake with Crap
pling hooks. Near o'clock one OF the
hookssttuck heavy yielding substance,
and soon the 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 "fish.plate" rail
road iron tied around the neck and
waist OF the murdered woman. She wa
completely clad, and about her necl
and waist were tied heavy scarlet cord'
known to have been at the Halves resi-
dence, to which were attached six iroE
pieces weighing about ten pounds each
The back OF the dead woman's skull
shows the horrible story OF the tragedy
II had been crushed in with some blum
instrument, presumably an Ak. The en-
tire oCcipital bone is crushed in ant