New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-12-19
BLOODY RIOT IN ALABAMA.
Iynchers Repulsed from Jail in AIabama With
Loss of Fifteen or Twenty Lives.

tity of the murdered girl, MAY HAYES. and
the fact that her mother was missing, it has i
peen suspected that the latter was also muir
dered. The body of the missing woman was
found at the bottom af lake in the park.
hall mile from the cottage where the fam
lily had lived and five miles from East lake,
where the body of little May Halves was
found me head OF the dead woman had
been crushed by a blow with an ak and the
K body was kept at the bottom of the lake by
Two hundred pounds of iron fastened about
n her neck, feet and waist. In addition to
! finding the body, other circum-
stantlal evidence has been found against
: Dick Halves the husband of the dead woman.
mob advanced on the Jail at midnight for
the purpose of lynching Halves. The officer
nred several volleys into the mob. Nine men
were Killed and many wounded. Among
Uhe Killed was the postmaster of this place.
The mob made an attack on the Jail at
Il:3O p. M. AS they approached the alley
way leading to the jail, the officers
called to them to halt which they
! dld. The officers then fired with VIM
chesters and pistols, and the firing was ter
rifle for fifteen minutes on both Sides
None Of the officers were injured, but over
n twenty OF the mob were killed and wounded.
Among the wounded is NJ. B. Throckm orton
postmaster OF birmingham, who was endeay-
orlng to persuade the mob to dispense.
Adolph Shebe, OF the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, was also fatally wounded in the
neck The patrol wagon carried off the dead
and woundedto the hos pital The firing was
commenced by the police, but equally as
many shots were fred by the mob. Over five
hundred rounds were fred The rifles
zouaves and guards are in possession
OF all the streets leading to the jail Inside
theJall the bullets fired by the mob Whistled
around those confined there. Sheriff Smith
gave the order to fire. No further attack is
anticipated. desultory fire was kept up for
half an hour Hawes the murderer was in
y different thrOu oh0ut, the riot
LATER, 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. r. Halves,
charged with the murder of his life 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 a few feet on the jail door and had failed
TO need numerous warnings the officers open
ed fire on them, killing three men instantly,
fatally woundlng seven and Wounding more
or less seriously about thirty Others
: A list of names follows showing thirteen
deaths to date, with more to follow
THE SHERIFF cENsURED. ...
tits generally believed that the reckessness
and haste of the sheriff in giving the COM
mand to fire was assassination, and it is
stated on all sides that the immense gather
ing was not for the purpose at all of forcing
was never any real danger of an assault.
There is no calm in the public mind, and the
excitement is far greater than heretofore. In
the light of the nights terrors, the Halves af
fair has almost disappeared, and the indig-
9 9a6n;91 expressed is directed against
=. let go the fearful volley. And
: the city is military encampment.
I, Col. Jones of Montgomery, with two mill
tary companies is absolutely in charge of af-
fairs. The jail is guarded by state troops
with picket lines extended several squares in
every direction; and at each approach there
1rowns the countenance of a 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
poets OF an armed rising by the people.
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 within doors. They have con gregated
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 mob who sesolemn duty would be de-
clared to be to avenge the murderer of the
popular Mr.. Throekmorton 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 unpro-
voked as unnecessary, and asked Gov. Seay
to i'm m ediately 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
pl1cated, but this was refused and finally
citizen went befo re a Justice of the peace and
swore out 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 stook
charge OF the jail and in his custody that in
q stltution is at present.
There are already ten military companies
4 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 charge of Calling gun
have arrived here from the capitol city Be-
sides these, companies from Tuscaloosa, Ope-
lika, Greenvile aud Admission and other
Alabama cities came. One precauton
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.
..
AS to the occurrences of last night, Sheriff
i said:
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
lgkept coming on. We begged them to go
back, and time and again warned them that
we would shoot. but they would not listen
to us. They came halfway up the alley
close to the Jail door. and shouted, elbow up
the Jail with dynamite After all this and
after they opened fire, gave the order to
fire. They continued firing after we ceased.
feel that we could have not done anything
else under the circumstances, and L deeply
regret the necessity.
Report of the Indian Commission.
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