The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-18
PANIC In CAMDEN
Another Woman Assaulted
by a Brutal
Negro.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES OUT.
This Crime Was Near the Scene Of
the Miller Murder Quite q
Point for Lingo.
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CAMDEN, Oct. IS, 1890. -Mitchenor,s
Wood, near Merchantville, Camden coun-
ty, where Mrs. Annie E. Miller was SO
brutally murdered last month, was pa
trolled yesterday by Deputy Sheriff West,
of Camden, and an armed posse of con-
stables and residents, searching for col
ored man who had assaulted women Of
the vicinity.
The posse was organized about three
O'Clock from report circulated by q
colored woman, Mrs. Mary &. Williams,
whose house adjoins the woods, and on
the same road where Mrs Miller lived,
about quarter Of a mile distant. Mrs.
Williams, while in conversation with
Levi w. Bankson, a colored photo
grapher and collector for an in
surance company. informed him that
a colored man had emerged from
the corner of the woods on Wednesday
afternoon about two O'Clock, and had APP
preached her house He had made an
attempt to commit an assault. She said
that she had seen the same person yes-
terday afternoon in the neighborhood and
had become alarmed at his actions She
also gave the names OF other females who
! said they had also been stopped by hims
but he was frustrated in his designs BIZ
the approach Of male pedestrians.
HUNTING FOR TIE MAN.
Mr.. Bankson Immediately notified hiss'
friends in the locality. and proeeeded 10 \
the telegraph Office and despatched the Y
facts to the prosecutors of5de, requsst-1
ing assistance. Deputy Sheriff West,
with Constable Edwin TomliHson
of the Ninth ward, proceeded TO Mer-
Constables Naylor and Garlin, Ticket
Agent w. p. Lippfncott, of the Pehnsyl-f
vania Railroad John Shane, Special OIL
Ger William Keyler and others.
They proceeded TO the woods, and after
arriving there divided into separate
parties. The bushes were thoroughly
beaten and searched by the posse
in their efforts TO discover the man,
and perhaps it was feared another
victim of the cruel knife or razor.
Mr.. Lippincots and the special
officer discovered a. e ooioSsd d man n tho
ly, and considered they were not j1tiaed
in holding him. as he Is known insrhe wis
Iage. The others, after a. iiRenti search,
relinquished their task VIXEN nghcfall
prevented them from seeing Objects
plainly. q : : 4 - 50 ~ ~
The announcement of strange,colored
man acting in sucha bold rhatnefAp the
vicinity of the recent murder soon be-
came known, and crowds OF determined
men started on individual scents. Threars
of lynching were freely discussed it he
could be caught and Identified beyond
any possible doubt.
WHAT MRS. WILLIAMS SAYS.
Mary e. William, the colored W0maE
who gave the information. was seen lass
night by NEWS reporter. She is an in
telligent woman. and her account OF the
experience she had seemed entirely truth
full.
Her little house adjoins the woods
on the north end. and is situated
about 200 feet from the road. She said
that on Wednesday afternoon about two
O'Clock, while she was busy about the
front of her house, colored man emerged
from the woods. and approached where
she was and that he made an attempt to
assault her. She became alarmed and
ran screaming into the house, when he
left hastily and proceeded up the road
Yesterday afternoon she again saw him
on the road near the stone bridge.
She described the man as being dark
colored and resembling Frank Lingo,
who is in the Camden prison, held on sus-
picion of having killed Mrs. Mil
Ter. She said that hat his feet feet were
he limped. He wore snuff-colored
slouch hat, same colored coat, blue shirt,
and dark pants. She said he had a slighr
mustache The first day she saw him, she
said, he had his coat on. The second
time-yesterday--he had his coat on his
arm. She said that she would be able TO
identify him if she saw him again.
HE is A STRANGER.
Laura Sharp, another colored woman +
living in Matchtown, said she had seen !
the mysterious colored man and knew I
himito be a stranger in the place. The story
is corroborated by white woman, Jennie
Lloyd, who lives near the town. She said
she was in the tomato patch picking to-
matoes when the repulsive stranger APP
preached the wire fence and made inde-
cent proposals to her. Upon her making
a noise, the attention of the passars by
was attracted and the negro ran into the
woods.
The description given by both these
women exactly comedies with that given Z
by Mrs. Williams.
Constable Naylor, who lives In Mar- i
chantville, was seen late last night after /
his return from the search In the woods, /
and at first declined to express an opinion i
on the appearance OF the strange per-
sonage. He afterward said that hal
thought the scare was concocted by tha@
coIored women in the vicinity TO free Lin-s
20 and to cause doubt to be raised In thaS
minds of the residents Constable Nav
lor will visit tine women today and elose-4
ly question them concerning their stories,
and the searchers will resume work this
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