Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-10


Ernest Forbes, twenty years old, is in the An
napoiis Md, Jail charged with the crime. Only
the quickEess of action of the officers of the
county saved him from being lynched, as much
excitement prevailed.
FORBES CRIME.
Miss Phipps lives on the farm Of G.. d. Lyles,
in tho first district Of Anne Arundel county, to-
gether with her widowed mother and her uncle.
Near by also lived Ernest Forbes. 1t was one
of Miss Phlpps duties to milk the cows on the
farm. Thursday morning she again went 10
perform this work about quarter Of q mile
from the house. Forbes followed her aud, walk
ing up to her stealthIly, seized her. tore Oh her
bonnet stuffed II in her mouth until her jsSs
were lacerated, to prevent her screams from
being heard, aud committed most infamous
assault upon her. Forbes made his way TO the
woods and was in hiding. lie veDtured rs far
as a branch near the farm and Mr.. Hardesty,
the uncle of the girl, espled HIM, caught him
and turned him over to the authorities.
1t was 3 o'clock yesterday morning when the
crowd eft the front OF the Jail. At O'Clock
the Governor Guard, with 90 rounds Of am
munition. marched past the jail and took
possession of the outskirts of the town, throw
ing out picket line. This was done TO pre-
vent the approach of supposed lynchers. Moth
ing disturbed the quiet of the night until
O'Clock yesterday morning, when eight or nine
colored men attempted to pass the jail They
were halted by the sherlffs deputies. The
colored people resented tins interference and
one of them drew a revolver. Another revolver
quickly at his ear made him drop his vespon.
IT was picked up by the crowd, which imnsedi-
ately scattered.
DANGER OF A RACE RIOT.
The danger of a race riot on Saturday night
between the whites and blacks was imminent
and Annapolis narrowly escaped Q bloody
\
that a body of organized lynchers was in town
early Saturday night and one OF them was even
in the Jail as a deputy. The colored people got
wind of this and 800 of them armed themselves
with revolyers, il IL said, TO resist any attack.
When Deputy Sheriff Small attempted 70
secretly take the prisoner to the City Hotel 10
hide him there the colored people accused the
officer of trying to put Forbes IN the hands of
the lynchers. They then gathered IN sueh
numbers and we're SO determined that they
held possession of the space made by ths
crossings of Calvert and Cathedral and West
people then began to gather and resolved -
protect the officers.
CLEARING TIE srRyErA
Sheriff Armiger nov began the work Of
clearing the streets Of the rioters, and in about
five minutes fourteen arrests Of the most bois-
ferrous OF the crowd were made. This done, the
posses commitatus went to the aid of sheriff
small, who was at Mr.. Myerss house with
Forbes. The prisoner was then brought out
and taken safely (his guard having drawn re-
volvers) to the jail 1t was proposed at one
time to call for o detachment OF marines TO
take Forbes TO the naval academy for safety.
But wiser counsels prevailed, and the state vas
able to maintain its own dignity and 10 pre-
serve the peace. There ID bitter feeling be-
tween the whites and the blacks The colored
peoples idea is that Forbes should have trial
by law; the whites think otherwise. Sheriff
Armiger's difficulty was TO get deputies Who
were honestly in favor Of protecting the pris-
oner.