Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-12
NEGRO CRIMINAL.
More Dihhcuity In Are~tias Them Than
White Cplprsts.

NEGRO CRIMINAL.
More Dihhcuity In Are~tins Them Than
White Cuiprsts.
THEY WILL RESIST ARRksr-Ar cIp-TrnE 70
HcEsAS GIVES soHE OF rHR asscLrs OF
Hp ExPTkiKSck-ruE KILLING OF orrrckR
rosLra ~ eursEA LASesrox RECALLED.
Sew people know anything OF the difference
there Is between srsesting white man or . co..
ored man" said veteran police officer 10
STAR reporter this morning. They Lad been
chatting over the effort which some Of the col
ored residents have been making 10 bring about
the removal Of Col. W. @. Moore, superinsend-
emit Of police.
TO have white man resist arrest IL Q very
rare occurreacss continued the old guardian
OF the peace, "but IL is common with the col
ored folks, whether they be men, women or
children When you hear a complsint a. TO al
legged brutality of an officer toward
negro prisoner YOU look NJ ths
testimony and see il theR We n0t
| every prorocation. We l1srnsd b. bi'IsT .Nre-
rience and IL is not strange IL a. ciiiseI who has
gore tn ongh the mil three tour ame-
| should assume the Offensive before his prisoner
starts in to ches him Up.
AN EXPERIENCE or TWENTY-FIVE WEARS.
have been arrcsting Law breakers for more
than twenty-five years, mostly in this city. and
1 never had but two fights with white prisoners.
One OF them was too drunk 10 know What he
| ives doing and when be sobe-ci u,D made
"a very handsome apology. There are a
great many nice co.ored people la this
| city and am surprised to know that two or
three of them are doing their best 70 encour-
age their degraded brethren and sister. 10 re-
| sist arrest by force: il may not occur 10 some
OF these so-calied leader that that is what they
are doing when they endeayor 10 Gust Col
Moore"
ASSAULTS BY ooLoRED PRISONERS.
Instances OF assaults on policemen by colored
prisoners are extremely numerous To get at
the total would be tremendous task but few
Prominent. samples may give those who know
nothing OF police affairs some idea as TO the
| dangers officers have to encounter when. in
line OF duty, they compelled TO deprive col
ored criminals of their liberty
| Officer Daniel Sheahan had some superheated
experiences. While endea,o ring 60 arrest .
desperate character known "Ghost-robber"
the officer was shot and painfully wounded,
| although be had used violence at all just
before that occurrence Sheahan had been as
saulted down in Bloody Field. and to save his
own life took that of the negro. who would
have murdered him.
| KILLING OF OFFICER BOWLER.
by Guinea" Langston. Fowler Was on duty
with the chain gang. Of which Lsngston WAS a
member. With a strong ~ire the prisoner
managed TO undo the ball and chain which en-
numbered his pedal movements aud az soon
as this had been accomplished he ran away
Fowler pursued him. and when Langston
approached threateningly fred q shot over his
head. In the struggle which followed Lang
ston secured possession Of the pistol and shot
Fowler SO that he died within an hour or 40.
When captured By Officer -Boiand Langston re-
GREETED that he was not aware that the pistol
contained one more cartridge He declared he
would have killed Boland with il had he known
there was another shot in the chamber
SHOOTING OF OFFICER oRIppKN.
A desperate named Ba1 shot at and fatally
wounded another toagh mined Basey, just out
side a saloon in Heu's Bottom. Officer Americus
\. Crippen chased the murderer into q house.
he refused to surrender and fred az the officer
Then followed an exchange of shots from which
both Cnppen and the murderer died, the former
Immediately.
Officer Matthew Mulioy arrested q colored
man who had stolen several geese. The thief
who was armed With hatchet. cut one of Null
Toys ears almost of. and would have braint d
his csptor If be could possibly have managed IT,
Ohcer X. o. Melton is on detail duty today
because colored prisoner struck him with q
heavy piece Of pine joist. One eve 10 prscti-
cally sightless as a result Of the criminals vio-
lence
STRUCK WITH 4 BRIcK.
Detective Slater was not even struggling with
prisoner when he received the worst injury
ever inflicted on him. He was standing at q
patrol box, waiting for the wagon to take q
man of his hands, when a colored boy stole
up behind and struck him on the head
with brick SO forcibly that the brick was
broken. For many weeks the detective was
| near death doOr and IL was
before he could do even half duty
Ofcer Frederick Voelbel is q paralytic today
In consequence Of a ferocious assault made
upon him by the johnson gang" yoslbel
hnd arrested Levi johnson and wss
moving toward the station house with him
:, when a mob Of colored toughs set upon
y him. took his pistol and stick away and would
almost surely have killed him had not two or
'hree officers arrived in the nick Of time.
oncer Paul kerston was serving q warrant
on George Baker, notorious negro character
when Baker kicked him in the groin and in,
ficted permanent and painful injury
TRIED TO KILL OFFICER HArrox
Whis oficer J. I. Hstton was making an
arress IN Southwest Washington he was fred
upon BY colorsd man. Letting 60 his prisoner
Hstton chased the weuld-be murderer into a
stable loft, and there crowd Of negroes did
their utmost to kill the officer. They chewed
up one Of his hands most horribly and disabled
NA"a ,oi ooiAAo uAAe, oot y oAomately caught his
assailants.
Officer William Kemp, while standing at a
patrol box, was struck on the head With brick
and badly cut. While prostrate - Arsd at the
fleeing assailant and broke 0 leg with q bullet.
Officer S. L. RedgrHve was in q loft Alta
fugitive negro, when the fugitive struek lin
with pitchfork handle. knocked him cut Of
the loft to the ground and almost killed
| him. This same Officer Redgrsve While
standing near patrol box with O6csr TAonas
Hanley was fired upon by q negro. which q
the two was aimed at il not clear, bat fortun-
ately neither Of them was hit
| OFFICER DoYLEs CLOSE CALL
Last Emancipation day came near 10 being
Officer Robert e. Doyle's last day on earth. A
coIored militiaman from Baltimore fred his
rifle in the street and when Doyle went TO arrest
him he narrowly escaped Q couple Of bayonst
4 thrusts.
Officers c. J. Wagner, Edward Murphy and
George W. Mason all know what il means 70 be
q physical minority. Each of these and othsr
| officers, whose names are not remembersd nov,
have been held down while their pistols md
batons have been taken from them by colorsd
| assailants.
| Oficer Eimmel's lafesf exnerianc>-~h;~h