The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-27

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DIR. j. Newton Lewis-"I assisted n,
Jones in dressing Will Eddy's wound
me wound was evidently made bv a
large bullet ~
Ut d. ID. Lawrence-''I am ATTENDING
two cases. The first man was q
small, who was shot through the hin
Geo. Munroe was shot in the head and
IL 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: 1 was sworn in
to obey superior officers and to protect
the constitution and laws of the State
at my own peril. 1 received nv com
mission properly signed"
DR.. Gray asked the question, Do YOU
regard Mayor Trout as your superior
officer?
Captain Bird replied-"Ido."
Captain Bird made his statement in
MS own language as follows:
about ii O'Clock September 90, 1
was taking with MIR. Lazell, who is con-
nected with our business, and noticed
the crowd in front of athe Jail. After
finishing the business l went into nv
office and was told by young lady
stenographer that some one wanted me-
At the phone. Mayor Trout's son. John
Trout, said his father wanted me at the
mayors Office at once.
II went to police headquarters and
Mayor Trout and Mr.. Hardaway wers
there. and Mr.. Trout said. Il expect
trouble to night and may have to call ON
you for your company l said, We'll.
we will be ready Mayor Trout said,
You 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
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 it was necessary, I left
police headquarters and went to the
armory and got the roster and looked up
the location of the mon.
~ called up Lieutenant Moss and
asked him to come to my office at once.
while on my way l met three men and
gave them orders according to those
given by Mayor Trout Lieutenant Moss
ana l went over the roll call and took
down the names of the men who we're in
town and who were able to serve. Each
took list and went around town and
notlhed every man we could find. About
o'clock was going out to the shops
and met Mayor Trout. He asked mo if
everything was ready. l said l could
have the men ready at one-half hours
notice. decided not to go to the shop
and returned to my office.
"About 4 o'clock Mayor Trout called
me up and I went to the mayors office
on horse back and he told me he had
written the order and delivered it to a
policem. n. He gave me orders to bring
part of my command to police head
quarters ut once. On my way to the
office the policeman delivered the order.
L telephoned Lieutenant Moss to bring
all tho 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.
81 then wont to the armory and saw
some of my men on the way up and in
siructed them to go to the armory at
once. At 4:l5 had eighteen men in
the armory. l gave orders to put ten
ball cartridges in zach mans box. We
went at once to police headquarters,
where we found Mayor Trout. AS we
went down the street the crowd ieered
and made such remarks as they Won't
shoot, Il can eat all the bullots that taey
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. 1 then took
them into police headquarters and
loaded the 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
6:l5, when Lieutenant Hatcher brought
another squad, making thirty eight
men, including the surgeon, DR..
Simmons. then established
regular guard composed of Lieu
tenant Hatcher, officer of tho
guard; Sergeant Warner sergeant Of
the guard; Corporal Crutc, corporal of
the guard, and eight privates went to
eight different posts as follows:
One on cornor of Campbell and Com
merce streets, one from corner to tho
Jail, one from the Jail to Roanoke street,
ono at intersection OF Roanoke street,
one In front OF courthouse in the yard,
two in roar Of jail and one in the open
lot, completely surrounding the jail. and
instructed them to allow no ono to enter
those lines.
1--WE had no trouble and Above per-
sons to walk along the sidewalk, but in
structed the mon not to hold conversa-
tions with any one and to obey inBtruc-
tions only from officers. | instructed
the men that IL they found it impossible
to hold the line to retreat to police head
quarters. The men were getting hungry
and | asked Mr.. Trout where we could
get supper for them. He told me to
send to Catogni's for supper and he
would be responsible for it, / gave
orders to have supper sent up before :
O'clock. At 7:l5 went down to Catognis
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