Evening journal., 1894-06-11
VICIOUS SET OF DARKlES.
THE ELEVEN Hus1 LED FROM POGO
MOKE CITY TO BALTIMORE

For Fear That They Might share tho
Fate OF the Twelfth Member Of Their
Gaug who killed Constable Carver.
BALTIMORE. June IL Eleven alleged
colored nurderers escaped mob vengeance
at Pocomoke City, yesterday, by the
merest chance, and last night they we're
locked securely behind the iron bars and
stone walls Of the Baltimore city Jail
They were all but one Of the men i'm
plicated in the cold -blooded, brutal kill
ing of Constable Ned Carver, at Pnnesa
Anne, Somerset county, last Monday
night. The twelfth man, and probably
the most guilty Of the lot, fell before the
merciless bullets of seventy five masked
men. In the Somerset jail. on Thursday
night, and a coroners jury thought the
mob was justified, for 10 found verdict
of death nt the hands of unknown men.
10 was Just o'clock last evening wher
/ the Philadelphia express rolled in al
Union Station and Sheriff Sterling, ol
/ Somerset county, and five assistants LED
I from the cars the eleven negroes whc
began TO rea'izs that their lives were once
more worth a minutes purchase tn,
sheriff and posse were armed TO the teeth
/ while the prisoners were securely hand
cuifed. They did not appear 10 mind the
I indiguity in the least, although some O
| the younger men quailed under tbs
/ scrutiny OF people around the depot anc
/ seemed ill at ease.
Detective Gault happened to be in The
/ vicinity when the train arrived, aud hav
/ ing learned through The News yesterdal
afternoon that the murderers were ex
pected here at night, offered his service
to Sheriff Sterling,
| IRE Central district patrol wagon wa
telephoned for, aud on its arrival tn
negroes were bound in the vehicle witt
the armed guards all around, aud th
trip 20 jail began.
Typical "sho" Darkios.
The prisoners are about as vicious
looking q set OF negroes as could bs me
in days travel. They are typics
"Sho' dsrkies. whose principal ocoupa
tion is beIry-picking Ia season, and dis
turbing the peace and doing nothing
except hunt "pOssums" the rest Of th
year. Not one of them had ever seen
patrol wagon befoIe, and they eyed tn
vehicle suspiciously without aaying
word, until the gray pile at Monumen
and Forrest streets loomed up. The
the prisoners began to brighten percep
ibly, and the youngest in the gan
expressed his joy in regular plantatio
gufiaw rs the heavy doors In the Monu
ment street wall swung open to admi
the wagon and it's freight
few minutes later Sheriff Sterlin
had met Warden Constantine and turne
over the prisoners 20 his custody, an
the guards gave q sigh OF relief at bein
rid, temporarily at least, of an unwe
come and worrlsome task. Sheriff dter
ling, indeed, looked as IL he had bee
under tremendous strain. as he had.
He said he had had no sleep since Con
stable Carver was murdered, but Will
the murderers probably richly deserve
the fate which befei Kemp, who wa
shot down by the mob, &c was his dut
to prevent more lynchiug IL possible, an
he had had his hands more than full
The prisoners are George Psrke
George Brown, George Holden, Alfrs
Conquest, John Han. John Hand
George Hammond, Elmer Croppe
Thomas Smythe, Leonard Conquest al
John Williams The majority az
middle aged men, They were give
, cells on the second tier of the mort
, Wing OF the jail aud were sound aslee
soon after the locks had clicked benin
, | them.
To assist him in the long trip en-
bIiug the alleged murderers here sheri
/ Sterling had Sheriff j. W. Fsrlow,
, / Wicomico county, and Deputies p. Sidns
! Dryden, B l. Langford, Levi +. Wilsc
and q p Griffith, Of Princess anne n
party will return home by the Easter
| shore steamer to-day.