The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-05-24
4 NEGRO DE5PERADO.
he Kills One Policemen and Wounds
Another,

In Washington, b. c., last Wednes-
day Humphrey Taylor, Negro sus-
pected of the Rosenstein murder at Sill
dell, Md, shot and killed Police Ser
geant Fritz Passau, wounded Police
man Cow and kept posse of half
dozen officers at bay from the loft of a
house for nearly two hours.
Dozens of shots were exchanged be-
tween the officers and the fugitive who
only surrendered when preparations
were made to burn the premises. Last
Saturday morning week Louis Rosen-
stein and his wife, who kept a small
store at Slidell, were found insensible
and horribly wounded in their store
room. Rosenstein soon died from his
INJURIES and the woman is believed to
be near death. Suspicion fell upon a
Negro named Humphrey Taylor, alias
Brown, % had disappeared.
A Negro answering the description of
Taylor was seen last Saturday evening,
and information received by the police
led them to believe their man was liv-
ing in small house about quarter of
a mile west Of Georgetown. Early
Saturday morning Taylor Sas seen to
enter the place and word was immediate
ly sent to the nearest precinct station
and a posse of officers hurried to the
place. The men we're posted about the
house while Passau, Cow and another
officer attempted to gain entrance
through the front door.
Finally the door was forced. The
two small rooms on the first floor were
empty and the officers assembled to the
second story. The front room vas also
untenapted, and as the men passed
into the rear apartment, Taylor opened
fire from the trap door Of cock loft in
which he had taken refuge.
Sergeant Passau sank to the floor
dead with two bullets through his chest.
Policeman Cow opened fire through the
trap but failed to hit the fugitive. Cow
received a bullet in his right hand, bad
ly shattering it and another struck his
metal badge and glanced downward the
entire length Of his coat. The reserves
of Two precincts were called out and the
house surrounded. The shooting, mean
while, had attracted several thousand
persons. Occasionally the Negro would
fire shot at the officers and immediate.
volley would answer it, but no one
vas hurt.
With revolvers in hand they watched
every window and tried several ruses
to draw Taylor's fire. He seemed to
have an unlimited supply of ammuni-
tion. Finally, concluding that he
would not surrender, District Commis-
sioner Wright directed the police to
fire the premises. A mattress was Sc
cured, saturated with oil and the off,
GERS began to remove the furniture.
Seeing his game was hopeless, Taylor
surrendered. Surrounded by officers
with drawn revolvers he was hustled
out Of the house to the patrol wagon,
when the crowd surged forward with
shouts of Lynch him" Burn him."
and made rush for the prisoner. A
1ope was secured and the mob made a
desperate effort to place it around the
wretch's neck. The GOODNESS of the Of
Gcers, however, saved Taylor, though
he was rather badly disfgured by blows
from the nearest of the crowd.
Upon searching the premises the po-
lice found sI92 and gold watch and
chain, where he had secreted them.
He had diamond ring and small
sum of money on his person.