Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-01-10

a contractor; Charles Bailey, brakeman
on the Louisville g. Ma hville Railroad
John Ii. Merritt; Matt Kennedy; j. i.
Owen; j. w. Gilmore; Albert Smith,
(colored) who worked for the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad; a negro boy; W. A.
Bird; n. Reichw elm, is a German and
unmarried; j. W. Montgomery, slight
wound on the left jaw. Nearly every
hour another wounded man is found.
Halves had heard the threats through
the open window of his cell before the
firing and felt almost certain that an at
tempt would be mode to lynch him.
From his window he could see the
throng, and for more than two hours lie
was peering through the bars. He was
In his shirt sleeves and looked out upon
the mob calmly and fearlessly. "But
don't see why we should be condemned, ("
said Sheriff Smith. "We begged and
pleaded with the crowd to keep back,
and then they fired the first shots. Sew
eral shots were fired by the crowd before
gave the order to fire. We begged
them to halt at the mouth of the valley,
but still they kept coming on We
begged them to go back lime and time
again, warned them that we would shoot,
but they would not cease They had the
way up the alley close up to the jail door,
Eand were shouting, Dynamite Blow
up the Jail with dynamite After all
this, and after they opened fire, gave
the order to fire."
At the physicians offices, at the hos
pitsls and undertaking rooms, hearth end
ing scenes were witnessed. Strong
men in the agonies of death groaned
aloud, while skillful physicians d d all
that could be done to relieve their suffer
ings. Men who had Just been revived
from sleep by the news of the terrible af
fair crowd, d around operating chairs,
searching for friends or relations. All
night long crowds of people remained on
the streets, and of course talked of moth
ing but the terrible event of the evening.
After the appearance of the military at
the Jail. and the removal of.all the killed
and wounded, the crowd which still
fingered in the vicinity, began TO dis
per>e, bat soon congregated again at
points further down town. Capt. Clarke,
of the jefferson Volunteers, was in COM
mand of the military until the arrival of
Col. Thomas G. Jones. and one of his
first orders was to place a strong guard
at every gun store in the city. A squad
OF troops was placed at each point, and
all night long they remained on duty. 1t
was thought an attack would be made on
the Jail before morning, but all fear of
this was soon dlspeiled when day dawn
ed A number of hot-headed men sug-
gested that the Jail be bl ,wn up with
dynamite, but even II any one seriously
thought of anything so desperate it
would have been impossible, because no
one had any Of the deadly stuff,
and none could be obtained at
that time at the drug stores.
The feeling against Sheriff Smith was
very bitter, and he was freely denounced
for ordering his men to fire before he
ordered the riot act read; at least, the
better class of citizens think he should
have ordered volley fired over the
heads of the crowd, before more deter
mined measures were ordered. During
Sunday he was discussed vigorously,
and about noon some one went before a
Justice of the peace and swore out war
rant charging the sheriff with murder.
Sheriff Smith was arrested. Detective
Pruitt was also arrested. Both men are
charged with murder, and the charge
grew out Of the shooting. Soon after
the warrant charging Sheriff Smith with
murder had been sworn out he was APP
prised of the fact. He knew just why
the paper was issued by Justice Winkley,
and made 20 attempt to leave. The
paper was placed in the hands of an
officer, who found the sheriff at the Jail
and served it. Smith was anticipating
the arrival of the officer, and as he en-
tered the Jail door, remarked pleasantly.
''come in" The officer walked in, and
pushing his hand into his pocket, said:
"Smith, L." Eyes, / know what
YOU want" said the sheriff "You want
me. You have warrant for my arrest
chai ging me with murder. l am here"
Sheriff Smith smiled as he spoke and
pleasantly extended hand to the officer.
The officer grasped the sheriffs hand.
saying: Il am sorry, but"
"Oh, that makes no difference, said the
sheriff have been looking for you.
Now that am your prisoner, what shall
| DOR Remain where you are. Do as
you please. Only remain here. ] am
responsible for YOU" Mr.. Smith is a
Young man, almost beardless, but he is
man of character and has many friends.
May Halves was buried on Sunday.
Her remaines were laid to rest in Oak
Grove cemetery. There was no big fun
eral, only the undertakers and few Off
GERS went out with the body. Mrs.
Hawes' bodyis in vault at the cemetery.
1t has been embalmed and will remain in
its present resting place until the inquest
Is completed.
Halves was interviewed by newspa-
per man on Sunday, but his story proved
to be tissue OF falsehoods. Fannie
Bryant, his washerwoman, was also in
terviewed, and her account of her con-
nection with the affair proved she was
not telling the truth
The death list brought to light has
turned the anger of the people upon
Mayor Thompson and Sheriff Smith, and
to a great extent taken it away from
Halves Especially has this feeling been
directed towards the sheriff. When it
was known that warrant was out for
r.. l.