The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-06-23

hid. Where, we have not been able
to learn. Later In the afternoon n
buggy was sent two or three miles ont
on the Nashville pike; then, ABOUT
ten O'clock that night the prisoner,
accompanied by several guards, was
taken across the river and walked 10
the buggy waiting two or three miles
away, aud then driven to Nashville,
where he now il.
The Mob's Attack.
There had been 10 much talk Of a
MOB during the day, that hundred
or more citzans gathered on thu
Public Square Monday night TO zee
whatever was to he seen. The most
to be seen the first part Of the even
ing was'A considerable going to and
TO about the saloons. But about 10
O'Clock some one raised the war
whOop and the whole crowd started
down Main street towards the jail,
many Of them ceiling, the voic = OF
boys predominating. AT the corner
of Sixth street, however, q very large
msjOrlty Of the crowd stopped, AMI
OIher4 began to lag, until the mob
proper was shOrn Of its proportions
and dwindl-d down to few. When
these few had gone as close TO the
sil yard As Sheriff Ragsdale thought
they should, he called to them to
hSlt, and they halted. Directly they
began TO move up little aud the
Sheriff halted them second time,
and this time he notified them wa
the last warning he would give; then
they stopped dead still. Up to thi-
time CnleI Friel and policemen
DOwell aud Noss were with the
Sheritf's party, but at this juucture
they went IT, the mob aud a-ked fOr
It's leaders. Three OF the leaders were
pointed out and the officers promp ly
relieved them of Their guns and a
rope they were carrying, and told
them ii they did not behave theIu-
selves. they would be Licked up.
They told them also that The negro
WAS not in the Jail and that if any
two of them wanted to go ana SEE
they could, hut the crowd could not.
None Of them cared to 20. or at least
none of them did go. During thl-
parley, one Bob Estes WAS arrested
ty Chief Friel and locked up for LOUD
swearing aid boisterOus conduct.
He called on the boys to stand to
| him, but the boys didn't stand
John Taylor and Jim Gillian Were
the supposed leaders and were the
ones the officers relieved Of their guns
pne man who had the rope, the
police did not know.
Tuesday morning when the
| Thompson Gaze WAS called J. G..
VOORHEES, appeared ~ counsel for the
Sheriff tn explain why the prisoner
was not present, PHI SOuthall was
acting Attorney General. When he
had heard Mr.. Voorhees, statnent, he
replied that he could not cen-ure the
Sheriff for doing his duty, but felt
that tue prisoner had been guilty OF
Il great crime aid deserved severe
punishment, and that the Sheriff
through his attorney, should state t.
the court when, if ever, he intended
to bring.the prisoner to trial. Mr.
Voorhees, replied that when the Cir
cult Court next convened in Septem
Der, aud an indictment was returned.
the prisoner, il alive, would be fOrth-
coming. The question being raised
AS to whether the Magistrate could
continue cas- for All indefinite
time, it WAS tscitly agreed that the
case would be continued from time
TO time until court met
The statement i'll Tuesdays Amer
lean that the negro Thompson was n
clerk in DR.. Hafacre's drug store j.
n mistake. Thompson was a dentist
ana had only rSnted a room ia the
rear OF he drug store. The clerk in
the store il named q. X. Crutchtield
He came from Louisville well in
dOrsed, and so far as we can learn
has conducted himself well siuce
here. DR.. Halfacre in a law-abiding,
irru -trlous, intelligent MAJ, knows
his place and keeps it, and is very
much troubled that the report should
have gotten out that Thompson was
in his employ. The parties are all
cOlored, but Haliacre stands well
among all who know him as a
straightforward, honest negro. He
was at ole time member OF Tn e
Board OF Aldermen