The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-22
BAD NEGRO IN TROUBLE
JOHN GLOVER, OF INDIANAPOLIS,
MENACED BY LYNCHERS.
Stabbed ~ Chattanooga Officer and
Return of COIOred Troops.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. 21.-This
has been a day of excitement in Chatta-
nooga and may yet end in a lynching. Last
evening two companies of Indiana colored
volunteers attached to the Eighth Immune
Regiment were mustered out of service at
Chickamauga, the majority leaving at once
for Indianapolis Along the Cincinnati
Southern road the negroes fired into several
depots, fairly perforating several, but no
one was injured. Among those who re-
manned was John Glover. member of Com
pany B, from Indianapolis. He had secured
a ticket and intended going home tonight.
This morning Glover, along with other
Indianapolis negroes, went to a disreputa-
BILE saloon in tannery flats. tough part or
town, and engaged in a general row, and
mounted Roundsman r. w. Baird was
called to suppress the trouble, which was
bordering on riot When the officers APP
peared the negroes, with the exception of
Glover fed. He defied arrest, became OBJ
streperous and told the officer he would kill
him.
A sensational and bloody encounter en-
sued. Glover drew a long-bladed knife and
the officer his pistol. The men clinched and
fell to the floor, the negro on top. He
stabbed the officer in four places, while the
latter fired his pistol three times without
hitting Glover. Being weak from loss of
blood the officer soon ceased resistance.
Leaving the officer for dead, the negro took
his revolver and fled.
A general alarm was given and officers
and provost guard of soldiers went in pur-
suit. The negro cut at an oncer VINO tried
to arrest him and he was shot down in a
field and brought into the city and placed
in Jail. Patrolman Baird will die, and it is
almost certain that the negro will be
lynched. He has just been removed to the
county Jail, while two companies have been
detailed as guard. Glover was struck in the
head with the end of pistol in addition
TO being shot in the hip, but is not badly
hurt. Two of Bairds wounds are eight
inches long and deep, severing arteries. The
city is greatly excited
The two colored companies, A and B. ar
rived home yesterday under command of
Lieut. John Edlin. Both companies were
mustered out Thursday. Members of the
companies who were asked about the state
ment in the dispatch to The Journal that
they had fired into depots, denied the
charge Glover, they said, had caused
trouble by his malignant spirit and had
several times fought details who forced him
into the guardhouse. He is about forty
five years old and, so far as is known, had
no family. Before he Joined Company b
he lived in the southern part OF the city
and loafed around saloons, doing the work
of a porter. He was game" to fight po-
licemen and was acquainted with the inside
of the police station
Col Higgins, of the Eighth United States
Volunteers Qmmunes), is said to have COM
plimented the Indianapolis companies for
their discipline and conduct. CaptS. Buck
ner and Porter remained at Chickamauga
to settle their accounts with the govern
ment, and will reach this city to-day.