Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-10
A RIOT.
An Indiana Negro Interseres With q
Democratic Joll.ticatiOn.
He IL Struck With Brick. Shoots His Assaii-
ant Dead and Narrowly ESCAPES Lynch
ing-sl1 Men Wounded.

MARION, IND. Nov. 9.-The town of
Paramount. twelve miles south Of
Marion, had its first murder last night in
the killing of Con Paul by a negro
named Tom Uttely. For time the af-
fair took on the proportions Of a riot,
aud when the smoke OF battle cleared
away siz men had been shot. 1t was
the occasion OF Democratic
jollircasion, and a knot of the faithful
were grouped around an anvil oelebrat-
ing their recent victories. In the party
IVES w. Il. Campbell, Con Paul. j. j.
Berry, Lee Harrington aGd Jerry
Frazier. Harrington had charge of the
anvil and was doing the firing
when Tom Uttely, negro OF
unsavory reputation stepped up aud
ordered the celebration to stop. Har-
rington, frightened, dropped the rod
and stepped back and Barry, Ken
tuckian by birth and a late arrival a.
Paramount, took his place. He was
also ordered 20 desist by the negro,
and upon his refusal Campbell came
to ths front and hefed Uttely
and both men went for their guns,
drawing and firing simultaneously. The
apart and had fred two shots apiece,
when the negro was struck in the fore
head with a brick tied in q grain sack
by Paul. The blow was severe,
bu. had no effect and a second after he
was hit Uttely wheeled upon his assail-
ant aud fired. Pau! fell with a bullet
through his head an inch from the fore
head. BY this time Berry Frazier (col-
ored) became involved IN the fight
and he went TO the ground with
q bullet through the left leg and right
hip. After shooting Paul, the negro
turned around and ran with the crowd
in full chase. The firing became gen.
eral and ne received bullet in the
fleshy part of the back. With
three or four men in pursuit
Ut,ely ran all over town. crawled under
a barn ana was finally captured in the
Central hotel by three citizens and es-
corted TO the office CT DR.. Hurley. A
mob soon gathered surrounding the
office crying for the negro blood. While
these interesting proceedings were in
force an examination of the battle field
was made. In all six men were shot, IA
follows: Paul, shot IN the head. died
this morning at o'clock. Berry was
shot through the right cheek and hit
with a stone. Frazier, colored, was
shot in the leg and thigh. Will
lam Cobb, farmer spectator,
was shot through the calf Of the
left leg. Cttely WIS wounded In the
back. Campbell was wounded in the
wrist and arm with stones. Another
man supposed to be from SomervilIe was
seriously wounded. but In the ex-
element his friends placed him on
board the SOUTH bound train and carried
him home. The affair occurred about 9
O'CLOCK in the evening and was all over
within half an hour. Sheriff McFeley
and Deputy Pagan were telephoned for
snd arrive at the seat of war at mid
night, finding the town in an
uproar and its citizens terribly ex-
cited and determined to hang
tho negro. The riot act was read and
the crowd pleasantly dispersed, but it
was not until s o clock this morning that
an opportunity was giving Of stealing the
prisoner away. He 10 now in jail in this
city. He pleads his Innocence strongly,
but without much effect.
The version Of the affair as given
above can be substantiated by witnesses.
Coroner Hamilton was notified of
Paul death at 10 O'Clock this morning
and Is now busy with the inquest.
With the exception of Uttsly the men
engaged In tho riot are all respectable
citizens, and Paul was an honest, hard
working teamster with . wife and four
children. Il was only by the heroic
means Of the officers that his death was
not IsvenEsd.