The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-12-27
GEORGIA MOB
Kills Seven Negroes Ten Miles
From Gluitman, Ga.
A Negro at Augusta, Ca, Kills One Negro,
Wounds Another. Then Kills the Town
Marshal and shoots Others of the
Posse-A Lynching is Probable.


Marshal and shoots Others of the
Posse--A Lynching is Probable.
QUITMAY, Ca, Dec. 24.-The posse in
pursuit of Waverly Pike, the murderer
of Joe Isom, Saturday night and early
Sunday morning killed three Negroes,
and reliable information is that the to-
tai number of victims is seven.
The Negroes known to have been
killed are Sam Taylor, Eli Fraser,
Harry Sherrard. Taylor was Pixies
stepfather, and the other Negroes his
close pals, all of whom were supposed
these Negroes knew they refused to
tell, and the penalty of not telling was
death.
Pixies wife was seen to slip into his
house at o'clock Sunday morning.
She was supposed to know where the
murderer was and every effort was
made to make her divulge. The mob
has her securely held and may succeed
in making her tell. The Negroes
killed were all shot down on this side
of the Ocopilco creek, about ten miles
above Quitman. The report is that a
second posse, which was securing the
woods north of the Ocopilco have
killed four other Negroes.
This wholesale killing is terrible,
but the people of that community
claim to have had terrible provocation.
Hardly three weeks ago Tip Mauldin,
a respectable white man, was MUIR
dered on the public road in the same
neighborhood by two Negroes, and
the murderers are now in Jail. When
Isom, the best citizen in the commun-
ity, was cowardly murdered by one of
this same gang, the pentup flood of rage
and vengeance was turned loose.
The record of Sunday night and
Monday remains to be seen. Brooks
county is aroused. The wholesale kill
ing Of negroes not directly connected
with Isom's murder is severely con-
demned, and it is hoped that the aveng-
ing mob will do no more Of this mad
work.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Dec. 24.-Jabez Wig
gins, negro, waylaid Walter Will
Jams, also colored, on the South Caro-
lima side of the river, several miles
from Augusta, Saturday night, killing
him, and, it Is said, attempted to kill
another negro. The murderer fled to
Augusta.
Negroes living in the vicinity of the
crime learned that he had come to this
city and was at the home of his sister.
They followed him here and asked as
sistance at police headquarters to make
the arrest. Detective Joe Murphy was
detailed for the work, with instruc-
tions to call for further help from the
police precinct in which Virgins sis
ter's house was located. Officers Wrenn
and Stringer accompanied him.
Wiggins was told by his sister of the
approach of the officers, and as>they
entered the house the murderer opened
fire upon them, shooting Murray twice
in the face and Stringer in the eye.
Stringer may recover; Murray is dead.
The Negro then fled,s followed by
Wrenn.
The pistol shots attracted people in
the neighhorhood to the street, and
among these was John Davis, white
Davis was shot in the breast by bull
| let from the murderer's pistol, and dice
III ldll al HOur. Wreun purSueu tut
| fugitive to the river bank, where the
Negro hid behind clump of trees
Holding pistol aloft in his right hand
| he told the officer that he surrendered
and to come take him. The officer ad
vanced, and the Negro shot him in the
leg with long-barreled pistol he haG
concealed in his left hand.
Others joined in the chase, but the
murderer reloaded his weapons ant
made desperate fight. He was di
recting his steps toward the bridge
hoping to escape into South Carolina
just as he approached it, however, one
shot hit him and ranged around, in
flicting only a flesh wound. His weap
ons, however were empty, and then h
surrendered. The presence of mum
Der of policemen on the scene when ht
was captured was the only thing thai
saved his life.
The only thing that saves the muir
derer's life Sunday night is the fac
that the legislature that has just ad
journed passed a law empowering th'
judge to call special session of thu
superior court in criminal cases TO,
immediate trial There was great ex
citement in the city all day and mol
of several hundred gathered in front o
the Jail. They only murmured thei
discomfort, though, and no attemp
| was mada To raid tha Sail which xya