The age-herald., 1899-01-20
SHERIFF OF DALLAS COUNTY WOUNDED Pitched Battle Between Officers Near
 Selma. SEARCHING FOR MURDERER
Charlie Nelson, the Much Wanted Ee-
 gro, Still at Large.
sLooDHoUNDs PUT ON THE TRAIL
Sheriff Lumpkin, Though Shot Three Times, Will Recoverif Blood Pois-
 oning Does Not Result from the Wounds.

Selma, January 19.-(Special.) )-Sheriff Lumpkin lies at his home in this city with threo gunshot wounds about his person, re- ceived last night in an attempt to arrest Charles Nelson, much wanted negro who had escaped from the county jail.
 Something over year ago Nelson shot Shelley Sumner and after eiuding the oiti- cers for many months, was finally caught and landed in jail. A few months later, af- ter having had his trial and sentenced to be hanged. at feeding time the negro with two companions, made d bold dash for liberty, shooting twice at Jailer Aycock as he fled down the stairs. Since then every effort has been made to capture him. Yesterday afternoon about 5:SO o'clock Ed Stockton called Captain Ed Walters, of the Selma police force, out of Drysdale's res taurant and told him that R. P. Lockhardt had seen Charlie Nelson in town, and thought he could locate him. Sheriff Lump kin was notified, and accompanied by Cap tain Walters, Deputies Davis and Seay, Officer Frank Miller and J. ?. Doherty, he went down to the house of Sue Nelson, the negro's sister. It was then about 1:30 No- body but the woman was there, but on SSdISHlf-S luc uOusS, WHICH IS SltudiGQ Otl Bow street, in the rear of Peacock's foundry shotgun loaded with slugs and deadly sing shot was found.
 tseionged charley nelsol
 The woman said the apons belonged to her brother, Wash Nelson, put afterwards admitted that they were the property of her brother, Charlie. The officers pGetended to go away but in realty hid themselves near I,a a while m posed to have been Char ie and Wash Ne.- son, came up to the house, and Sheriff Lumpkin called to them to halt. The ne- groes iRmedia tely broke and ran followed by Officer Miller, who shot at one of them three times as he climbed the little bluff at the foot of Lawrence street. The blood hounds were quickly procured and tracked one of the negroes to the old ferry landing. The other one had darted under negro's eu on the corner of the alley, but all r the sof him was lost.
 g on any then decided to go across the river bridge and, finding where Wash Nelson lived, but guard around the house to wait the approach of Charlie Nelson. All of the above named went across the river except MT. Doherty.
 Crossing the bridge, Deputies Davis and Seay took the dog and went down to the old ferry landing on the south side of the river to see if the trail could be picked up, while Sheriff Lumpltin and Officers Walters and Miller went on to where they knew Dan White lived just this side of the gin, across the river and to the left of the road Arriving at Dan Whites he was called to the door, MT. Lumpkin telling him who it was. Dams wife was heard to cry, "Oh, my God, they will kill you, sure"
 Held a Consultation
 Dan came out and told Lumpkn that Wash Nelson lived in the room just across from him, and thought he was in there The three officers then held consultation and decided to go back and get the other two who had gone down to the old ferry landing. Meeting the two deputies the five men went up to the house and found ne- gro sitting in- the open porch between the two rooms. Sheriff Lumpkin asked him who was in the room and the negro, who was Wash Nelson, replied there were some old women in there.
 "Go In there and make a light" said the sheriff.
 The negro slowly got up and he was noticed to step off to the side of the door. and the sheriff asked him why he didn't go on and make the light Then came a shot, and Sheriff Lumpkin cried out. Boys he got me on the shoulder" In less time than 1t takes to tell 1t perfect fusiade be- gan between the officers and the negroes in the house. Hearing some one knocking at the back room, Captain Walters went around to the rear of the house and fired through the plank On his way around he put bullet through the side of the house. Deputy Len Davis got to a little window also in the rear and bullet from Win chester whstled by his head. Deputy Seay, who was armed with a shotgun loaded with buckshot found a little tree about fifteen feet from the house on the opposite side and tried in vain to get shot Officer Mill Ter emptied his pistol twice at the crack in the door. In the meantime a second shot had struck Sheriff Lumpkin, this time in the right wrist, disabling him.
 Shot in the Side
 negro girl about 12 years old was cry ing don't kill me, don't kill me-" and standing right in line of the bullets from Nelson's gun. Sheriff Lumpkin pushed her out of the way and ran around the house, when Nelson made break from the room and shot him in the side as he passed.
 Calling to the rest, There he goes," Sher- if Lumpkin staggered up against a tree. while Deputy Davis took shot at the flee ing form. He thinks he hit him.
 Before Nelson made his break he shot five times at Captain Walters and Deputy Seay, who were both then behind the little tree, about fifteen feet away. As the gun would flash the officers would make a crack at the spot where the flash came from This morning The Age-Herald's representative accompanied Captain Walters over to the little double house where the shooting oc- cured In the tree behind which were standing Deputy 6eay and Captain Wall ters was a bullet, fmbedded so deep that all efforts to extract it failed. It was center shot, and had not the tree been there, 1t would have undoubtedly struck one of the officers in the region of the heart. In the cabin near where Nelson was supposed to have been standing when he shot was found eleven buckshot from Deputy Seay's gun, while all around the cabin were evi- dences of the fearful battle.
 The officers had all gotten out of ann