The age-herald., 1898-12-31
NEGRO MURDERER IF ROBERT WARNOCK
 CAPTURED AND LANDED IN COUNTY JAIL

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 of Jim Smith, had registered on Monday,
 November 2S, and also his ledger accounts,
 showing that he had been there since that
 time. For the first five or six days, Lun-
 dell says, he boarded by the day. paying his
 15 cents for his nights lodging regularly.
 After week or so, Lundell says he per-
 suaded his guest to board by the week,
 showing him how he could save money in that way.
 Was Gone During the Day
 According to Lundelrs accounts, Gholson
 left the house regularly every morning
 with the rest of the men, but how he spent
 his time during the day the landlord did
 not know. Gholson or Smith always seemed to have plenty of money, paying promptly
 what he owed, often presenting five and ten-dollar bills to be changed. He was very popular among the other boarders at the
 house, and always conducted himself in
 gentlemanly and dtgnifed manner Lundell says that neither he nor any of the other men in the house, so far as he knew ever had the faintest idea that Jim Smith was criminal. During all the time since Mo-
 vember 2S, Lundel says that so far as he knew Gholson hadn't been absent from the house but two nights. On one of these
 nights he is said to have gone to Besse-
 mer.
 Officer Patton confidently believes that
 "Jim Smith" and Will Gholson are one and
 the same. He believes that Smith or
 Gholson Is also wanted at Richmond, Ga''
 for rape committed in 1897.
 Had a Lively Chase
 The long chase which Officers Mcdonald and Patton had after Gholson is most inter-
 esting The capture was an exceedingly pretty one, in that the negro was taken alive, without a scratch, and without in- jury to the brave officers and the large number of citizens who joined in the pur- suit. It has been freely predicted since Warnock was shot in Third alley, that his murderer would never be taken alive, and that be was pretty sure to take one or two of his captors along with him off to other worlds. But all of these predictions failed, for Gholson did not fire a shot during the whole pursuit, nor did he hold himself at bay after he was run under the house, com polling the officers to shoot him to effect his capture.
 The two officers received their informa- tion as to Gholson's whereabouts from a
 party whose name they will not divulge. They were told that the man they wanted was standing in the doorway of 1903 Avenue A at the time, and if they went there at once, they would capture him. The officers left Twentieth street through Rickman's bar and passing through it's rear entrance, came out on Avenue A from behind the blacksmith shop on the north side of the avenue, directly across from the house they were looking for Gholson was standing in the door looking up toward Twentieth street, and did not see the officers until they were in the street directly in front of him. He darted in the door at once slamming it as he did so. The officers inn mediately broke into a run, MT. Mcdonald going directly through the door where Gholson had been standing, and Officer Pat ton going around the house, to try to head him off from behind.
 Burst in the Door
 MT. Mcdonald rushed into the door with all his force, cracking one of the panels as he did so. As he entered the front door, Gholson disappeared through the back door, and made for a low fence in the rear of the lot AS he jumped the fence, MT. Me- Donald fired at him twice, not trying par ticularly to hit him, for he says he was very uncertain that the fleeing negro was really Gholson
 But Gholson knew he was running to save his neck, and was not to be stopped by bullets fired in the air He ran like a deer straight down Nineteenth street to- ward the mountain, the officers following behind him as fast as they could. At Ave- nue white man whose name could not be feared, head the "stop him!' of the rf1ia frfn fo boo as Gholson, who had previously been run ming with his hand his hip to steady that fatal revolver which took Warnock's | life, reached back to pull that instrument of death the white fellow stood aside with brush by, nigger, brush by.'
 Just before arriving at the South Side fire department he turned into Alley c, and ran down to Eighteenth street in the rear of the Lane school. He crossed Eighteenth, jumping the big ditch, it is said, and con- tinuing his course across the open field into Avenue D. At Lem Bowers residence on | that avenue, between Sixteenth and Seven teenth streets, he ran into the yard, greatly | to the fright of Mrs Bowers. He jumped the fence over into the alley, and as he did so several of his pursuers fired at him. He continued straight across the vacant lots, | over Avenue E to Alley E. He had en- countered no houses since he left MT. | Bowers place. In Alley E he jumped over the rear renee or C. r. Black s residence, which Is on the northwest corner of Avenue | F and Seventeen a street
 RBn Under House
 As he started through the yard he spied | T. w. Nichols, who lives with MT. Black standing in the front yard. giving instruc- tions to a driver of lumber wagon. MT. Nichols says that Gholson immediately on seeing him changed his course through the yard and darted under the house. The officers soon arrived and were informed of the negros dangerous location under the house. MT. Patton on the side and MT. Me- | Donald from the rear, spied Gholson way
 up under the house lying on his stomach.
 They called for him to come out, telling him
 that they would protect him from the crowd, which had in the meantime collect ; ed around the house. He began moving
 around under the house behind the base