The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-26
The wound was evidently made by a

DIR. j. Ii. Lawrence-"I am attending
two cases. The first man was E. j.
Small, who was shot through the hip.
Geo. Munroe was shotin the head and
it was only flesh wound. The balls
were think large balls"
CAPTAIN BIRDS TESTIMONY.
Capt. John Bird-"I am captain of
Company G., Second Virginia Regiment,
known to you as the Roanoke Light In
fantry. My duties are: was sworn in
10 obey superior officers and to protect
the constitution and laws of the State
at my own peril. received my com
mission properly signed"
DIR. Gray asked the question, Do YOU
regard Mayor Trout as your superior
officer?
Captain Bird replied-"Ido."
captain Bird made his statement in
his own language as follows:
"About IL o'clock September 90.
was talking with Mr.. Lazell, who is CON
nected with our business, and noticed
the crowd in front of the Jail. After
finishing the business l went into NV
office and was told by a young lady
stenographer that so ne one wanted me
ut the phone. Mayor Trout's son, John
Trout, said his father wanted me at the
mayors Office at once
VI went to police headquarters and
Mayor Trout and Mr.. Hardaway wers
there, and Mr.. Trout sail. Il EXPECT
trouble to night and may have to call on
you for your company 1 said, We'll,
we will be ready Mayor Trout said,
Y GU had better inform your men to
hold themselves In readiness Mr..
Hardaway asked, Isn't there some form
to go through to call out the company
l told him there was and Mr. Hardaway
went at once to look at the code and
Mr.. Trout said the orders would be
ready whenever 1t was necessary. l left
police headquarters and went to the
armory and got the roster and looked up
the location of the men,
II called up Lieutenant Moss and
asked him to come to my office at once.
While on my way met three men and
gave them orders according to those
given by Mayor trout. Lieutenant Moss
ana went over the roll call and took
down the names of the men who were in
town and who were able to serve. Each
took list and went around town and
notified every man we could find. About
o'clock was going out to the shops
and mot Mayor Trout. He asked me il
everything was ready. l said | could
have the men ready at one-half hours
notice. decided not to go to tho shop
and returned to my office.
about o'clock Mayor Trout called
me up and | went to tho MAYORS Office
on horse back and he told me he had
written the order and delivered it to a
policeman. He gave mo orders to bring
part of my command to police head.
quarters at once. On nv way to the
Office the policeman delivered the order.
L telephoned Lieutenant Moss to bring
ell the men in the Office to the armory
at once and to-Sergeant Bently to tell
Lieutenant Hatcher to bring all the
men there at once.
IL then went to the armory and saw
some of my men on the way up and in
structed them to go to the armory at
once. at 4:l5 1 had eighteen men in
the armory. l gave orders to put ten
ball cartridges in each mans box. We
went at once to police headquarters,
where we found Mayor Trout. AS we
went down the street the crowd jeered
and made such remarks as they won't
shoot, Il can eat all the bullets that tney
will shoot.
The first thing Mayor Trout said
was, Get this crowd away from the
door, We proceeded to clear the
crowd with fixed bayonets and sue
ceeded after some trouble. then took
them into police headquarters and
loaded tho rifles with ball cartridges
and placed sentinels on the street to
keep the crowd away, which we did
with considerable trouble. cautioned
the men at that time not to do anything
without orders.
They stayed in this position until
G:l5, when Lieutenant Hatcher brought
another squad, making thirty eight
men, including the surgeon, DR..
Simmons. l then established
regular guard composed of Lieu.
tenant Hatcher, officer of the
guard; Sergeant Warner, sergeant Of
the guard; Corporal Crute, corporal Of
the guard, and eight privates went to
eight different posts as follows:
One on corner Of Campbell and Com
MERGE streets, one from corner to tho
Jail, one from the Jail to Roanoke street,
one at intersection OF Roanoke street,
one in front Of courthouse in the yard,
two in rear of jail and one in the open
lot completely surrounding the jail. and
instructed them to allow no one to enter
those lines.
"We had no trouble and allowed per-
sons to walk along the sidewalk, but in
structed tho men not to hold converse
tions with any ono and to obey instruc-
tions only from officers. l instructed
the men that If they found it impossible
to hold the line to retreat to police head
quarters. The men were getting hungry
and 1 asked Mr.. Trout where We could
get supper for them. He told me to
send to Catognis for supper and he
would be responsible for it. I gave
orders to have supper sent up before I
o'clock. AT 7:15 went down to Catogni's
with DR.. Simmons to see about supper
and told Lieutenant Moss to take charge
Of the JAIL