The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-01

out Of the gate and leveled their guns at
the crowd. ordering them to halt, declar-
Ing they would shoot. Colonel John
Haskell. prominent citizen, got in a car
riage and drove up to the gates and haG a
parley with CAPTAIN Alien of the guards.
Haskell demanded by whose orders he
was prevented from coming to the peni-
tentiary to speak with Captain McCaughtJ.
He was told that Assistant Adjutant-
General Watts was responsible. and Has
:kell thereupon declared that it was -
outrage, and that the courts would. settls
the matter. Captain McCaughry then ad-
dressed the crowd, saying that his company
did not intend to 90 to Darlington.
Shortly afterward the company withdrew
from the prison and went TO. the Hotel
Jerome.
/ Three constables who were in the fight
mt Darlington arrived here tonight via
Quincy on a special train. and are now,
safely housed in the penitentary. They
tel! the most thrilling and graphic stories
of the tragedy which. have yet been heard.
The three arrivals were S. d. Mcdonald.
S. L.. Nunnamaker and W. d. Owings.
f. Mcdonald gave the following story of
the fight:. Five OF us had been detained
/ to spy in Darlington. while the others had
gone Ito Charleston. When the squad
which was going to Charleston went to the
depot, where the fight took place. we
went with them: While we were there.
Billy: Floyd and Rogers, The men who
started the whole thing, got into an alter
cation. Floyd got the best of 1t About
that time negro driver for the Enterprise
Hotel attempted 10 strike Floyd. =.
"Constable McLendon refused to let the
negro attack Floyd. who had done the con-
stables several good turns, as he liked
them. McLendon told the negro to stand
back. Then. the telegraph operator ran
out of his Office and asked what Nc
| Uehdon had to do with it. McLendon
said he did not have anything 10 do with
it,. but he. did not propose to see Floyd
crowded. Then the operator went back
into the Office and Rogers got in the bus
and went uptown.
l.. "I:suppose he went to get crowd. for In
short time he came back with five friends.
Rogers renewed the difficulty with Floyd
and cursed the latter fearfully. he went
toward Floyd. but Chief OF Police Dargin
interfered and commanded the crowd to
disperse. The crowd refused to do so and
Rogers again cursed Floyd. Floyd said
he would not stand 1t and moved on
Rogers. The Chief OF Police separated
them., -:
"Rogers then turned to McLendon and
said: There is the who caused me to
get whipped McLendon said that was a
lie. Then Frank Norment stepped for
ward and pointed to McLendon. saying
This is the -, therep l was standing
| right between McLendon and Norment
! Before l knew 1t one of them reached
| over my shoulder and fired pistol.
'That shot started the battle. The citi-
zeps were armed with pistols and imme-
diately began firing at the constables.
| The officers were standing in body and
were the target OF the whole party. The
constabes returned the fire. Only eight
of he men were armed with Winchesters.
I don't know how many of them used
rifles. ! do know. however. that Con-
stables Pepper and McLendon did not
have rifles and used pistols.
"Pepper was killed soon after the firing
began. / don't know who shot him. The
shooting was over in few seconds. The
| first thing l knew Of the ending OF the
| fight was seeing the cOnstabes making
for cover. l was one of the five men de-
tailed to stay in Darlington. and did not
run off with the main body OF the con-
/ stables.
II went to Colonel Pepper. He was on
the ground, and as l bent over him he
opened his eyes and smiled at me, and
then closed them again. He murmured
several times and died. He was shot
! through the heart. tried to get physi-