Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-01-04

killing of Deputy Marshall Matthew
Barnhill, by Bob Brewer a colored out
law, continued nearly all day to-day
Ten colored men have been killed. A
mong the whites William Wood, Jr., a
station agent, was killed, besides Barn
hill. Marshal Legett and William
Wood, Sr., carpenter, were badly
wounded.
The Jury OF The white mob became so
great last night that, knowing there
were colored prisoners in the Jail, they
decided TO attack it. At 3 o'clock this
morning the mob drove away the guards
ut the Jail without much difficulty. In
q few minutes the doors were battered
In and four men went inside and shot
and killed Peter johnson Billy Hops,
colored. Hops was an 1S-year- old
boy. johnson was the man who had
been wounded and captured In yester
days fight. The military was stationed
about half mile from the Jail, but by
the time q detachment arrived there
everything was quiet, and all there was
10 indicate what had happened were
the bodies of the dead cOlored men.
The commander of the military had
suggested to the Mayor that detail OF
soldiere should be put on duty AZ the
Jail, bur the latter said the Sheriff and
his deputies would protect the pris-
oners.
COLORED WOMEN WHIPPED.
A large number of colored people
were taken from their homes this NOR
ming and whipped, many of them being
women. & crowd of white men went
to several houses IL s morning and
compelled the colored Inhabitants TO
leave. They brutality punished some
of them. Colorcd men aud women
were tied to posts and thrashed with
cowhides on the bare back or beaten
with poles.
Albert Harper. Dan Jacobs and an
other Negro known only as Calvin,
were taken from house last night by
party of twenty white men. They
were no doubt lynched as nothing more
has been seen or heard of them. The
house IN which they were captured Is
pierced with eleven bullet holes and
the women who live in the house bear
twenty whip marks on their backs.
HOW THE TROUBLE ORIGINATED.
The trouble began yesterday NOR
ming, when Chief Marshal Leggett
and assistants attempted to arrest Bob
N. Brewer. q notorious colored outlaw and
Fugitive. Brewer raised his CUR 20
= his shoulder and deliberately shot
down Assistant Marshal BarLhill, kill
ing him ms family. The Chief Marshal
then fred on Brewer, but missed him.
Brewer returned fire and shot Leggett
through both legs. Brewer and his
crowd OF ten or twelve men then
fied TO McMillans Swa mp, few yards
away.
The report OF the gun threw the town
, into violent excitement. BY O'Clock
500 white men were in the swamp
hunting for the fngitives. Among the
citizens were William Wood, carper
ter, and his son, William Wood, who
is on visit from Ridgeland s. c., tC
his father. The outlaws lodged into
the swamp and when young Wood raj
in behind them, Brewer shot hin
Brewer nezt shot Woods father in the
face. Then the outlaws ran furthe
into the swamp. Now and then shot
were exchanged at long range but tn
desperadoes could not be overtaken
They had fled toward the Altamah
River.
THE RACE HATRED INCREA Sis
When the news of Barnhlll's killin
first spread through Jessup, Salli
Hops, mother of the boy Hops VIII
had been arrested by the deputy
clapped her hands in front of her hous
and thanked God that Barnhin va
dead. Her language was sprinkle
with oaths. Other colored people
her house Joined with her in exclam
tions of JOY. Bill Fluett. rhumati
colored man of bad reputation, VIII
lived next door, was less dsmonstrativ
but declared he was glad Barnhill ha
been killed. These actions inflame
the white people, hundreds OF whol
armed with rifles, swarmed the streets
1t now began 60 look as though fGrthe
trouble would result. Up to this tim
not q single black had been hurt wi,
the exception OF q tramp, Pete J0hnso
who was shot on the edge of he swami
He swore he had nothing to do viii
Brewers crowd. But his appearans
= in the swamp was suspicious and |
was sent TO jail. bis wound WAS n'
q bad one.
The news of the death of young Wos
and the shooting of his father spre'
like wild fire over the town. COnfu
ION reigned for q time and JessI
seemed to be in the hands of a vi0le
mobs Mayor Hops called meetiI
and hssty arrangements were ma
to protect the town. seventy d
armed men were gathered in ft
minutes.
HORSE WHIPPING THE WOMEN.
At O'Clock nifty men from baxt
and other points on the railroad,
by twenty men from IN and arou
Jessup, divided into three parties q
star ted out TO visit the houses of {
colored people. In all thirty hou'
were visited. Six houses were simE
searched for weapons and members
Brewers gang and their occupants W;
not m0lesIed or abused. The very fl
house visited was large two sic
frame tenement occupied by Sal
Hops and other lawless charscte
JUST previously all the buggy WHIPS
one store had been bought and distri
ted. The Hops woman was terri
whipped and told to leave the to
and never return. Two other colol
women in the house were let of wit
light whipping. Three men eau
here were whipped.
In the next house Bill Fluett liv
Fluett and his wife and Schiller and