The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-08-04

the building In which he WA in-i
trenehed. The fire department. was
called out, I'M order I protect sur
rounding property. Some one went
to o neighboring grocery, purchased;
q an of oil, and, pouring IT y the.
rear steps of the building, applied q
match and soon had the building n
flames.
So tiercely did the fire burn that II.
soon became evident that no human
being could live in the building, and
picked men from the police special
SQUAD and soldiers stationed them-
selves about the building, in TO
pick Off the desperate as he attempts,
ed to leave the house.
A Young soldier named Adolph An
derson, q member of the Thirteenth.
company Of state militia, was n OF
the first to see Charles as he ran down
the steps leading to-the second story.
Charles ran across the yard and n
tered the second room. He fired sew
eral times at Anderson, and the lat
ter, who was armed with a rifle, shot
the negro in the breast, and he fell
and died soon nfterward.
Eiiicd Corpse Wit. Bullets. :
AS soon as the negro fell numbers
of people rushed in and fred into the
body. Charles was literally shot to
pieces. After it WIS certain that he
was dead a mob entered the yard and
dragged the body Into the street.
There the police and the mob emptied
their revolvers into it, while q son
of one of the murdered men rushed
up and stamped the face beyond rec
ognition. There were then loud bowls
that the body should be taken to a
vacant square in the vicinity and pub
licly burned.
At this instant, however, q big
squad of police dashed up in n patrol
wagon. There were thousands of peo-
pie congregated in the vicinity and 1t
seemed as if there might be n clash
between the oficerssRnd the mob. The
police seemed, however, to have re-
gained their courage, and they
promptly pushed the crowd aside,
picked up the body and threw 1t into
the patrol wagon. The driver whipped
up his horses and the wagon started
off with 5000 people running after 1t
and clamoring for the cremation OF
the body Of the desperate.
The wagon, however, was 1eeter
than the mob and 1t ultimately made
its way in safety to police headquar-
ters. There an immense crowd had
gathered and great difficulty was ex-
perienced in taking the corpse of the
negro from the wagon into the
morgue. When Charles body was
stripped it wa found to have been
literally lacerated from head to foot
by the bullets fred into it.
Shortly after the body had been
placed upon the marble slab in the
morgue, Annie Cant, u negress who
was alleged to have known Charles in
timately. came to the morgue and aft
er regarding the body carefully de-
clared 1T was not that of Charles, but
that of his half brother, Sly Jackson.
Later in the evening, however. Jo-
seph Staasi, a respectable Italian, ar
rived at the prison and, seeing the
Of the murderer of Day and Lamb.
Stassis stated that he had lived in the
building which Charles occupied for
several months and was intimately ac-
qua1nted with him. He said lie could
not be mistaken in his Identification.
Coroner Richards said to a repre-
sentative of the Associated Press that
upon examination of the clothing of
the dead men he had found Is slip of
paper bearing the name of Robert v.
Charles, who also went under the
name OF Sly Jackson.
Two Others Shot Dead.
Shortly after the body of Charles
that there were. still some negroes in
AZ, h,,r,;pr E,,;lIino Tho ,, ro 1.,np
again quickly surrounded by picked
men, and under guard Of armed men,
a special squad made its way into the
building. In q room which the fire
had not yet reached three negroes
We're found dressed in women's
clothes They were hustled out and
Immediately sent to prison in a patrol
wagon.
Subsequently, a fourth negro was
discovered in the building. He made
n desperate resistance against being
arrested, and while in the hands OF
the police was killed by n shot fired
from a pistol in the hands Of one Of
the ~disorderly mob that. had congre-
gated in the vicinity.
Just about the time that Charles
body reached the morgue the body of
an unknown negro, who had been shot
and stabbed to death on Gnllatin
street, was carried In. This negro was
passing through the French market
when he was seen by a crowd of
whites. The latter were intensely eS-
cited by the news of the killing of
Forteus and others uptown and they
Immediately mubbed him. The un-
known negro ran for his life and the
angry mob kept at his heels, the
crowd increasing in numbers every
minute. The negro finally succeeded
in entering a house on Gallatin street.
He ran upstairs and jumped from the
gallery to the ground. Before he
could rise the mob shot and stabbed
him to death.
Up to the time of the tragedy at
Clio and Saratoga streets the city has