Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-28
MOST LYNCHIVG IN NEW YORK
,fsro Only saved by Being Dressed
in Womnn'S Clothes.
lNew Y0rk Press-g7th)

M-ro Unly ~nNtu ny ntihS bA'SHN"
in Womnn'S Clothes.
lNew York Press-27th)
1 H putting a woman's dress on a negro
rderer and in that manner smuggling
IN through a maddened mob Of 2OOO
IONS. the police Of this city last night
~anted a lynching in tlie street.
4 -da mob watched the block bounded
b Amsterdam and Eleventh avenues.
I ,y-drst and Sixty-second streets.
were prepared before dusk and
mln Dudley Smith. was seen and
a. d by the crowd at o'clock. Had
p. been caught then he would have been
a-le3 Immediately.
HE HID IN \ TENEMENT.
u. look refuge in the tenement No. z2i
VS., szty-sccond street. Captain Moyni-
tr sergeant Kear. and fifty policemen
t .. west sixty -eighth-street police sta
-. -arched every one of the twenty
Il; houses in the row, which shelters 100
~ Had the negro. when he was
f.. finally by the police. been shown
% ue crowd he would have been stoned
= DEATH There was intense excitement
Z L.t.e Hel's kitchen, the more terrible
...-. 10 was subdUed, such as has not
Dan seen in this city for many a day.
r-m $40 +. NJ. when Smith shot and
Michael Iyden in Gehie x Pan
Aas liquor store. No. o. Amsterdam
-.r. until il o'clock, when the muir
a-s- was taken secretly BY the police TO
l iu Captain Moynihan's station
-... the crowd was dense in Amster-
u and Eleventh avenues After dark
police cleared the two cross streets
GU ll one was allowed TO pass east or
.- ms SiXty-hrst or SlNty-second
....-- unless ne had business there.
Desperate men. bent on taking summary
-ance on the negro, whose reputation
the neiehborhood is OF the worst
-ched the movements OF the police
-..y
POLICE FOOL THE CROWD.
The report spread as early as T.. NJ
they had found their man ana were
.iUe n!m iu a basement, waiting lOI
s crowd 90 scatter. When II was 4,@Ih-
d later that Tie murderer had eludeu
hem and was safely IN police CELL lhe
OBJ was enragcd. but not violent. only
0ish young men who had been drink
s all the evening talked of attacking
police station.
IMAlAt4tl III ADDA AN+NteN tAA ~'|s
- west SiXty-hrst street, lie 'ay con-
ed there Tor two hours, and theh
- ms way out and into Amsterdam
..lle. Here he Was seen and chased
the murlated mob. but he outran them,
.-u.a into S.Xty-third stree, ana across
vacant lot 10 SiNty-sccOnd street aud
. No. "a. While this house and t5,on-
..lr ~@thers ia the row were being
0hed cmaucally. smith, in some
. doubled back and across the YARDS
fences and took refuge once more III
81 west SiXty-irst street
rtOTECTED IL his FRIENDS.
N..n Captain Moynihan found him al
g. II. he was in room. unfinished
said to be- unoccupied, ON the TOP
other negroes had hidden rim IN
A blocks The door was locked, but
.- Captain broke IL open, ana tCuhc
santa trembling like led1 There was
- l.l lL each street, ana Captain Moy-
liam knew he would never get mis- prl-
..r 10 q cell alive II the crowd saw
He forced a cOlored woman to pro-
l.- d white skirt, d black coat ana
r.rad hat. and the tall negro murder
was dressed IN these. There was
.. lowered pattern ia the skirt. \ pa
wagon was called, and as IL dashed
... SDtv-nrst street the crowd FOL owed
.l surrounded IL.
plain clothes men passed the WORD
....ud that "a drunken wench has been
..h.d for lighting. such statements
moi startle Little Helis Kitchen. Ddt
. crowd was suspicious. They Kept
...ir places around the pauol-wagon ana
.ere reinforced every minute by men
no came running down from Amsterdam
venue. carrying paving stones
THOUGHT IT WAS A WOMAN.
when the tall figure in female apparel
.,,. out of the door OF No. 25I with a
. policeman on each side and another
behind. tho crowd began TO iall
..t The murderer was hustled into
patrol-Wason roughly, ndll uoI'n
Iclneu followed and the crowd clearea
way promptly. laughing.
some f.,, followed 10 The police station,
ru slspic.ous. and they brought WoId
Jack 20 SiAfy-secOnd street of the tilch'
smith has lived in the ncighDoihooo
or a year and "a half, and was known
S a bad man. Even the little boys III the
rowd last night knew him Wel!' ana
did tales OF his revolver and his knife
Ind his frequent use Of them. lie is 20
earn old. "a ught-cOlOred negro, tan, ana
slsre-iaWed. he never worked. Lntll
rald was made on the place BY the
dice he loafed around DCol-room near
.tv-hrst street and Amsterdam avenue
"a Tie daytime.
Al night he played craps and acted tho
... ~ bully i'm various quarters of the
y.st Side. lie was known as big Dud
. "rockev" Smith. He was always
mod and a scar on his lip tells of one
p his 0erce fights over a dice game. "a
.1 room In No. 81 west SiXty-hrst
...e, which he shared with white man.