The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-27
DEFENDED HIS SON.
Details of the II cent Mob Outrage In
Elorids.


Details of the II cent Mob Outrage in
Florid'.
Braidentown (Fla) Cor Chicago Post.
Two hundred men and 10 blood
hounds are beating the woods beyond
Palmetto in search of a negro named
Jack Trice and his 14-year-old son.
! There is no escape for the fugitives.
and when caught they will be lynched
mercilessly. The whole of Manatee
county is aroused. Jack Trice yester-
day morning shot and killed City Mar
shall James Hughes and Edward San
chez and fatally wounded Henry Dan
iels and Albert Buffum.
Trce lived at the edge of the town of
Palmetto with his wife and son and his
aged mother. He is a laborer and has
always been sober and orderly until
this tragedy. but he has been known
among men of his color as daring
and fearless man. Last Monday after
noon the son of Trice went swimming
and there met the son of City Marshal
James Hughes of Palmetto. The boys
are about the same size and in some
means became involved in a quarrel.
Young Trice was the victor i'm the en-
counter and young Hughes was sent
home with rather badly-damaged
face. but with no serious or permanent
injury.
His father was naturally very indig-
nant. and resolved that the Trice boy
should be punished. He called To his
aid a number of white men of the
town. and shortly after midnight on
Monday went To the cottage Of Jack
Trlce, determined on Regulating" the
young pugilist. They called to the in
mates Of the house and demanded that
the lad be sent out To them. Trice tried
To argue the case, but they would lis
4, y
again demanded that the boy b" turned
over To them declaring r ne was not
they would come ir and get him.
Trice replied that n would defend his
home and warned the white men not to
take any unlawful steps in the matter.
as he knew what his rights were and
would take care of them.
There were 15 white men i'm the party
and they We're wildly enraged by the
speech of the negro. They at once
fired. several shots penetrating the thin
door of the cabin. To their great as
constituent Jack Trice was prepared
even for so serious an encounter. He
returned their fire almost instantly.
and the very first shot from his gun
killed Marshal Hughes. The fall of
their leader rendered the white men be-
side themselves with rage. and they
made a dash at the house. Edward
Sanchez lighted a torch and trid TO fire
the cabin. As he stopped to apply IL to
the corner of the little building Trice
fired again. and shot Sanchez through
the brain.
Not for an instant had the firing
from the other members of the assail-
ing party been suspended. but Il
seemed none of their shots could take
effect although Trice selected the win
dow when he fired. or opened the door
ii he desired better aim. Each time
he presented himself there was a
scramble on the part of the whites.
and an indiscriminate volley. which
was too hurried. however. TO have
any effect on the beleaguered freed
man.
After the death or Sanchez the assail-
ing party waited for a time and con-
suited. some OF the men keeping up the
shooting AZ intervals and others OF
them making the rounds OF the house
50 that the black man might not es-
cape. But their cessation of h0stilities
was only the signal of another method
of assault. ~ the end of half an hour.
I'm which Trice warned them time and
again 10 go away and leave him and