The Portland daily press., 1900-07-28

numbers of people armed with Winches-
ter and reyolvers rushed in and fired into
the body. Charles was literally shot to
pieces. After it was certain that he was
dead, mob entered the yard and dragged
the body into the street The police and
the mob
EMPTIED THEIR REV DIVERS
into it, while a son of one of the muir
dered men rushed up and stamped the
face beyond recognition The police
seemed to have regained their courage
and they promptly pushed the crowd
aside, picked up the body and threw it
into the patrol wagon. The driver
whipped up his horses and the wagon
started off with five thousand people rum
ming after it and clamoring for the Gre
nation of the body OF the desperado The
wagon, however, was heeter than the
mob and it ultimately made its way in
safety to police headquarters.
Shortly after the body had been placed
in the morgue, Annie Grant, a negro
woman, declared that it was not that of
Charles, but of his half brother, Sly
jackson.
Later in the evening Joseph Stassi, a
responsible Italian, said positively that it
was that of the murderer of Day and
Lamb.
Coroner Richards said to,a reporter of
the Associated Press that upon examina-
tion OF the clothing of the deceased, he
had found slip of paper bearing the
name of Robert Charles who also went
under the name of Sly jackson, Shortly
after the body of Charles had been taken
from the scene a report spread that there
were still some negroes in the building
and in a room which the fire had not yet
reached, three negroes were found,
dressed in female attire. They were
hustled cut and Immediately went to
prison in q patrol wagon subsequently
a fourth negro, mulatt0, was discovered
in the building. He made desperate re-
sistanee against being arrested ana was
killed,
just about the time that Charles body
reached the mOrgue the body OF an un-
known negro who had been shot and
stabbed to death On Gallant1n st reet was
carried in This darkey was passing
through the French market when he was
seen by a crowd of whites. The latter
were intensely excited by the news Of the
slaughter of Porteous and others and they
IMMEDIATELY Y MOBBED HIM.
The unknown negro ran sfor life and
the angry mob kept at is heels, the crowd
increasing in numbers every minute, The
negro finally succeeded in entering a
house in Gelatin street He ran upstairs
and jumped from the gallery 80 the
ground. Before he could arise the mob
shot ana stabbed him to death. Up to the
time of the tragedy at Clio and Saratoga
Streets the city had been practically
quiet The tragic scenes, however, which
were enacted here this afternoon make 1T
almost certain that both the 500 special
officers and the 1910 militia Will be kept
in service least until Monday. Late
this evening, the mayor issued prOcla-
nation impIOring the people to keep the
law; ordering police to diSperse crowds
and assemblies and closing the bar rooms.
August Thomas was identified today as
the negro who met q violent death at the
hands of hoodlums Wednesday night at
the corner Of Custom House and Nillers
street Louis Taylor one of the negroes
who was shot and dubbed at the French
market Wednesday night, succumbed to-
day to his wounds. Late this afternoon
Harry Mayberry called at Central police
headquarters and identified two men un-
der arrest, George Flanagans and Mike
Foley as members of the mob who muir
dered Anna Maybery, his mother, while
she was asleep in her homs on Rosseau
street, this morning, The grand jury was
called in special session today. Judge
Baker delivered a strong and impressive
charge on the subject of the disgraceful
scenes which have occurred in New Or
leans during the past few days The
grand jury examined q large number OF
witnesses Including newspaper reporters
with view to obtaining information
which might lead to the apprehen sion of
the perpetrators of the Outrages.
A complete list of casualties shows that
six negroes and four whites have been
killed and ten negroes and twenty whites
injured since the trouble began
SCHOOL BURNED,
New Orleans, July 70 Il a. m-The
IIaffOn school building has been burned