Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13
A MOB REPULSED.
Birmingham, Ala, the Scene
of a Bloody RiOl.
RIFLES ND A GATLING GUN USED
WITH DEADLY EFFECT.

Ten Men Killed and a Number Seriously
II. Not Fatally woundsd-PetitIon to
the Governor demanding the Removal
of sheriff Smith-A Regiment of Soldiers
Now Guarding the JaiL
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec IO-The Hawes
murder mystery hss been solvedI A terrible
riot has resulted. The mob stormed
the Jail, bent on lynching Hawes, the muir
derer. A sheritf's posse opened fire on the
maddened crowd and shot to kill As the
volleys 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 tumult
of intense excitement and Hawes is still safe
in jail
The story of the terrible affair is as fol.
lows:
Saturday afternoon the ammo uncement
was given out that the mutilated body of the
missing mother, Mrs. Emma X Hawes,
whose daughter May was murdered, had
been found in the murky waters of the lake
at Lakeview, a suburban resort, and half a
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
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home.
About II O'Clock four determined men set
to work to drag the lake with graphing
hooks. Near IL o'clock one of the hooks
struck IA heavy, yielding substance and soon
he mutilated corpse lay on the bank.
The combined strength of four men was
~equired to land it. The body was weighted
iown with heavy pieces of fish plate" rail
roa'l iron tied around the neck and waist of
the murdered woman She was completely
clad, and around her neck and waist were
tied heavy scarlet cords known to have been
at the Hawes residence, to which were at
tached six iron pieces weighing about ten
pounds each.
The back Of the dead woman's skull shows
the horrible story of the ira gedy. 1t had
been crushed in with Some blunt instrument,
presumably an ak The entire occipital
bone is crushed in, and there Is u gaping
cavity that is only half concealed by her
heavy auburn hair. Her right hand was
badly skinned across the back, as if injured
in struggle for life, and the appearance of
the face and hands Indicate that the body
had heen in the water several DAYS. The
body as soou 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 it lay on the bank the crowd of curious
and indignant spectators crowded around
and momentarlly increased until it sweIied
into u surging multitude. The feeling of
horror, rage and desperation increased mo.
mentarilv until it reached the point of
frenzy. Fierce threats of vengeance were
heard coming from lips whose utrerances the
people of Birmingh Cham 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 boiy of the
youngest child of Mrs Hawes went on. but
up TO 8 O'Clock Sunday night it had not been
found.
Late Saturday afternoon a mob began to
congrerate at Second and Third avenues and
Nineteenth street. IL swelled to fully 10, 0DO
in number Talk OF lynching Halves and
his two negro accomplices in the murder was
heard on every hand.
BY Mayor Tnompson's order Mdrshal Pack
ard had surrounded the Jail with a large
posse. These iaeu were armed with VIM
chester = Il IS and a Gatlins gun
At n'i,in!Iht Saturday the mob around the
county jail negan slowly pressing back the
outer guard, and advanced down Twenty
first street to the mouth of the alley leading
to the 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 Il gain. He yelled to them to
keep back, as they would be fired on il they
advanced up the alley. Finally he called
ont: Il will count three, and il a man re-
mains in the alley we will fire
He counted three, and the crowd feel back
little, and the officers did not fire. This
seemed to make the mob bolder md again
they pressed up the alley. Saariff 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-
turned by the mob.
At least a thousand shots were fired. Then
the mob fell back leaving the ground covered
with dead and wounded men. Several dead
were hurriedly carried away by their friends
before identified.
Postmaster H. B. Throckmorton was shot
through the. body, and is dead He was near
the front of the mob trying to disperse it.
The killed are, Frank Cnilder, NJ B.
Throckmorton, postmaster; ]. R. Mccoy, A.
B. Tarrant, A. D. Bryant, G. c. Tate, a
painter; Colbert Smith, colored; unknown
man. colored; Charles Jenkins, -- Bran
den.
= The fatally wounded are, Charles Bailey
Louisville e. Nashville brakeman; A. III
Scniede, mechanic. &s
The other wounded are, T. w Mont
gonlery, - Berkeley, John H. Merritt,
Matt Kennedy, J. w. Owen, carpenter, ].
w. Gilmore, Albert Smith, colored; w. AL
Bird, L. Reichwein, Lawrence Fltzhugh,
civil engineer. fe
Hawes was seen in the jail after the at
tack. He appeared unconcerned and said:
eyes, I know what the shooting meant.
That crowd wanted my life and they can
have it.n M M
He seemed TO feel that the mob would sue.
coed in getting in the Jail, and he dressed
himself and expressed his readiness to ac-
company the crowd Is soon as they reached
him. He still stoutly asserts his sinnocence