Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-10
MEN-AT- ARMS.
Which Shall Rule-The Law
or the Mob?
MILITARY CAMP AT BIRMINGHAM.
Thirteen Companies in the Field.
Sheriff smith Arrested.
Stirring Scenes.

Stirring Scenes.
Associated Press DISPATCHES TO the HERALD
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, December 9.-A
crowd which had been collecting on the
streets for several hours, last night at
midnight advanced on the County Jail,
with the intention OF lynching R. r.
Hawes, charged with the murder of his
wife and child. Many OF the best citizens
tried to reason with the crowd and pre-
vent trouble, and some lost their lives in
the attempt. When the crowd was with
in few feet of the Jail door, and had
failed to heed the numerous warnings,
the officers opened fire upon them, killing
three men instantly, fatally wounding
seven and wounding more or less seri-
ously about thirty others. Following is a
full list of
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED:
NJ. B. Throck kmorton, Postmaster,
prominent and popular man, was shot in
the hip and killed.
An unknown Negro shot through the
lungs, died this morning
J.R. Mccoy was toward the front of the
crowd when the firing commenced. He fell
wounded at the first volley.
A. P. Tarrant was shot in the back.
After the first volley he lay down on the
ground with the hope of avoiding the flying
bullets; ball struck him as he lay on
his face and ranged up his back, killing
him.
A. D. Bryant was shot through the
heart. He was standing near the jail.
and was doing his best to restrain the
crowd from going any nearer.
G. G. Tate was shot through the hip
and ioin. He is dying.
Bert Smith (colored) was shot through
the right lung and died this morning.
Lawrence Fitzhugh, civil engineer,
was badly wounded.
head, fatally.
ed but less seriously.
Charles Genkins was shot in the back
of the head and died this morning.
j. T. Montgomery received slight
wound in the jaw.
below the knee
Charles Bailey was shot in the right
side
John Merritt was shot through the left
leg.
Matt Kennedy was shot through both
legs below the knee, and also in the left
arm below the elbow.
B. w. Owen was shot through the right
thigh.
J. w. Gilmore was shot through the
bowels.
Frank Childer is dead
Albert Smith (colored) was shot in the
bowels.
W. A. Byrd was shot in the right
shoulder.
| Most of the above are married and
some of the dead leave large families.
Col. Tom. B. Jones, of the second regi-
ment OF the 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-
lence. There was much excitement, but
it has subsided somewhat to-day.
THE SHERIFF DID HIS DUTY.
ST. LOUIS, December o. The Re.
public's special from Birmingham, Ala,
says The situation here is compare.
lively quiet to-day, though the feeling is
intense and the authorities have taken
every precaution to avert repetition of
last nights horrors. Colonel B. F. Jones,
of the Second Regiment, arrived to-day
aud assumed command of the militia.
Sheriff Smith in an interview said he
deeply regretted the occurrence of last
night, but felt he had simply done his
Inf Hn he tl,a ,rl, IL,
warning and did not give the order to
fire until it was absolutely necessary, and
that after the mob had begun to fire upon
the Jail
Mayor Thompson, who was only in
Quoted to Office last Wednesday, issued a
proclamation this morning expressing
sympathy for the families of the victims
of last nights tragedy and deeply re-
gretting the occurrence, but favoring the
maintenance OF law and order, and ap-
pealing to all who love peace and good
order to refrain from public assemblage
and remain in the quiet Of their homes.
HALVES DECLARES HIS INNOCENCE.
Hawes was interviewed to-day by a
friend. In response to the first question
as to his guilt, he said: "This is terrible
here. I am confined in this cell charged
with numbering my wife and daughter
Why should kill them? l loved those
two children and once 1 loved their
mother. The children l could not have
killed because my heart was too full of
love for them. The mother I would not
have killed because we were apart"
When asked what he did when he
heard the shots last night, Hawes said
II got up and dressed myself, ready to
&C with the crowd to the most ignomi-
nous death man could endure.''
''Did you think they would get you ?"
eyes, felt sure they would"
POPULAR INDIGNATION.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, December 9.-An
american special from Birmingham
says: The defenders of last nights
wholesale slaughter are quoting in be-
half of its perpetrators that the blood of
the martyrs is the seed of the church.
They declare that the killing was done
by the sworn officers of the law in the
solemn discharge of their duty and that