Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-08-13
JUMPED FROM THE TRAIN.
A Galloway County Negro Murderer
Escaped From Sheriff Windsor
On the South Branch Train
Wednesday Afternoon.

William Coleman, the Galloway
County negro who killed Edward
Chastine another negro at a gathering
of colored people at Stephens Store,
south of Centralia, on Tuesday, and
who was arrested by City Marshal
Brown in Centralia Wednesday and
turned over to Sheriff Windsor, of
Galloway, escaped from custody by
jumping from the south branch train
Just after it pulled out of the station
here Wednesday afternoon.
The prisoner had been brought
down from Centralia on the Wabash
and was not handcuffed as he showed
no desire to get away. When the
branch train was near the crossing,
about a third of a mile west OF the
depot, he started to the rear end of
the a to get a drink, but instead of
doing this stepped out on the platform
and jumped from the moving train.
Sheriff Windsor quickly followed him,
but fell as he jumped from the train
and hurt of his hands, giving the
negro time to get away. The muir
derer ran northwest, closely followed
by Sheriff Windsor, who meanwhile
emptied his revolver twice at the
fleeing figure. Several others joined
In the chase, but Coleman had too
much the start and was soon out of
sight.
The officers in town were notified
as soon as possible and started out
to hunt Coleman. Butler Guthrie's
b~loodhounds were taken out, but as
they could not find the trail were not
able to follow the negro up. Late in
the evening the chase was abandoned.
The murder for which Coleman was
under arrest was a horrible nj At
the picnic mentioned he became N
ragged at Chastine, and drawing a
knife, cut and slashed him in a ter
rible manner, completely disembowel-
ing him. Every effort will be made
to capture him.
THE Montgomery City Standard, ed
tied by John w. Jacks, formerly of the
Mexico (Mo.) Iatelligencer, referring
to the action of the sound money DEM
ocrats in Audrain County, editorially
says:
GA number of Democrats in Audrain
have signed a call for a third ticket
organization in that county. They
are composed of some Of the best men
In the county, but they are making a
big mistake. They cannot help but
know that the Democratic party stands
for all that a government by the peo-
pie, for the people, calls for, while the
Republican traditions, tenets, practi-
ces and principles call for a strong
government Numerically opposed to
a government of the people, for the
people.
"While the party makes mistakes,a as
all human organizations must, the in
dividuals who refuse to follow the
party platform also make mistakes.
And In this instance, the majority
which favor free. silver and Bryan is
90 immense that any individual could
with good grace accept this one time
q plank, which he does not indorse,
without any great injury to his feel
ings. Surely n plank in the Demo-
cratic platform cannot be more OBJ
noxious to a Democrat than all of the
planks in the Republican platform,
save one, which these same Demo-
Gratis have been fighting during the
past thirty years.
EMO, gentlemen, you are taking the
wrong track. Consider we'll, before
breaking away entirely, that you r
embracing more deadly obnoxious
principles by aiding the Republicans
in this campaign than you r escap-
ing, In the ratio of at least 10 to /.
at il better to be a doorkeeper in
the house of the Lord than to sit In
the feasts of the ungodly.'"