The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-22

the city TO my farm ana passed along the
street just north OF Gwinnett street west
Of West Broad. When about half way
down the street I saw people running
ahead Of me and stopping upon the out
skirts OF the city. 1 drove up and asked
what was the matter. and the reply was
that a policeman was in pursuit Oh
man who cut Andrew. Looking over
into the lowlands, ! saw man IN dark
clothes running around in a peculiar way
and a policeman not far off on a horse,
apparently trying TO get nearer 10 MN.
There were bitches and fences that pre-
vented him from doing so. Just at ms
time the policeman disappeared from my
sight, and / saw the man in dark clothes
coming toward the Gwinnett street road
He turned and ran right back over the
same course he had come. l was situng
in my buggy at Gwinnett and west
Boundary streets when heard some one
coming. I recognized Policeman Murphy.
who rode up 10 me very hastily. salu
10 him, 'Yonder goes your man, straight
back toward the railroad lie turned ms
horse around and went back at a rapld
gait. l saw the man in dark clothes going
out toward the Florida Central and PENN
sular railroad. The policeman went across
as rapidly as he could. drove OUT
the Gwinnett street road TO the
waterworks and turned towards the rail-
road and / met the policeman trying TO
get through an old gate that had been
nailed up. Someone was assisting him.
don't know who. / got sight of the man IN
dark clothes then down under the trestle
of the railroad. The policemen got
through the gate and dashed down the
road into the Louisville road, past the
trestIe. then saw the man again and saw
for the first time that he was colored
man / was within 90 or go yards of him.
The policemen had gone beyond him, ana
he was between me and the policemen
called TO him TO stop and give himself up.
/ noticed that he had something IN ms
hand, l don't know what it was. He turned
directly and came towards me. ] drove un-
der the trestle onto the canal bank, and
jumped out Of my buggy and again called
to him stop. He turned directly on from
me and ran up into the old timber basin,
back of Lovell's brick yard. Just then l
heard a horse coming. The policeman rode
along narrow bank that had
deep cut through it which stopp-
ed hic progress on horseback
| was then on the canal bank in my buggy
50 or rs yards away. l saw number of
men working in the brickyard and saw
the man on the canal bank and the police
man right behind him, and supposed OF
course he would surrender. l called TO
the policeman 10 jump off his horse, which
he did. The man scrambled through a
wire fence The policeman called upon
him to stop. He turned and said some
thing I don't know what. The police
man fired two shots In quick succession.
l expected to see him fall. l noticed
that he still had something in his hand,
but was not close enough to tell what
IL was I recognized then that the po-
liceman could not run. He seemed to
get along with difficulty. He followed
the man, however. through the brickyard
went up the canal TO the
other bridge and out to the
Louisville road and across the railroad,
where / found a crowd of people I saw
two men in uniform, street car men, who
had made some effort to arrest the fugi-
tive. I then turned and went back to
my farm.
DIR. b. F. sheftan stated
that he was sent for to go
to see Keebler after he was shot.
Il made an examination" said the doc
tor land found three pistol shot wounds
penetrating the back. Two of the bullets
had been extracted by DR.. Dunn, so 1
was informed. The third I extracted from
the front 1t was a No. So and was the
one which gave the death wound. The
ball must have passed through the lower
portion of the stomach and intestines,
severing some of the larger blood YES
sells. | extracted that ball about the
ninth rib, a little to the right l think
one of the other balls must have passed
through the bladder. judging by the direc
ton it took. 1t would probably have pro-
duced death"
j. B. Cohen, an employee of the Florida
Central and Pennsular. testified that he
saw the negro coming running through the
Florida Central and Peninsular shop yard.
He was near the restaurant when he first
saw him. He had a knife in his right hand
and ran on toward the section house, past
the restaurant, through a wire fence and
got behind some bushes. Cohen did not
see him again till they broughtehim back
| through the yard on a crank car. He
| could see firing so on after the negro got
in the bushes. but he could not tell who
did the firing.
c. c. Clark. an employee of the Florida
Central and Peninsular said that he was
| at work in the yard when he heard some
one call out, ''AIr. Billy, they are trying to
| run me down" L turned around" said
/ Clark Ito see who it was and saw Elijah
/ Keebler coming toward me with a knife
/ in his right hand. | asked him what was
the matter, but he made no answer, keep
ing right on toward the restaurant. By the
| time he got there, a crowd of men was be-
| hind him. following him over to the over
seer's shanties
After he had been gone a little while
| l heard five pistols shots. After ! heard
/ the pistols shots l ran over in the drec-
l ton. By the time l got there Policeman
/ McHugh was there. l saw three shots
fired. This was while the negro was III
or near the ditch. They were fired by
Policeman McHugh. 1 heard more shots
/ fired, but did not know who fired them
| NJ F. Mansfield, an er1ploye of the
| Florida Central and Peninsular railroad.
| gave similar testimony to the two pre-
| ceding witnesses. He heard several pis-
tol shots fired and saw a negro coming
toward the section house. with several
men following. He asked what the negro
had done and somebody re-
piled he had killed one man
and cut another TO pieces. The crowd
called to him to cut the negro off. He en-
deavored to do so, when the negro threw
his right hand above his head, show
ing d long knife. and called. out to him
not to come AS he had nothing to defend
himself with ne turned back The negro
ran down behind some bushes toward a
ditch During the time he was in the
bushes there were several 81 OTIS fired. 1
/ don't know how many nor who fired them
/ saw McHugh fire two or three shots
but l couldn't see the negro when he
fired. The negro went out of the bushes
about twenty yards into the field and fell -