The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-08-02
BLOODY RIOT IN new ORLEANS.
A Negro Literally Shot to Pieces By an tx
cited Populace.

performing the last oftlceS or the ueda
officer.
At this time the ambulance arrived
and two citizens volunteered to go into
the alley way and bring out the body
Of Lally. They entered and while they
were attempting to take the body OF
the dead officer f: that Of his col
league, Charles fiered again. The citi-
zens, nevertheless, got Lally's body out
Of the alley, and succeeded in taking
Porteous' body out also. In the mean
time an immense throng had gathered
in the vicinity and schemes were set
On foot to get Charles out of the build
ing. Charles, however, did not propose
to be captured without selling his life
dearly. Time after time he came to
the window and as citizens, one by one,
entered the alley, he blazed away at
them. In this manner Confectioner
Leclere, who was one Of the special
police squad; ex-Policeman Evans,
John Banville and George H. Lyons,
son of the head Of the biggest drug es-
tablishment in the South, were wouE-
ded
At the moment of apparent indecis-
ion some one went to the neighboring
grocery, purchased can Of oil, and.
pouring it over the rear steps of the
building. applied match and soon had
the building in flames. So fler2ely did
the fire burn that it became evident
that no human being could live in the
building and picked men from the po-
lice. special squads and members Of the
,,oilifio stationed fSn-,o- o1yoc about thn
building in order to pick off the des-
perado, as he attempted to leave the
house. A young soldier named Adolph
Anderson, a member of the Thirteenth
Company Of the State Militia, was one
of the first to see Charles as he ran
down the steps leading to the second
story. Charles ran across the yard and
entered the room. He fired several
times at Anderson and the latter who
was armed with a Winchester rife,
shot the negro IN the breast and he
fell and died soon after.
AS soon as the negro fell numbers
of people, armed with Winchesters and
revolvers, rushed in and fired 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 the son OF one
Of the murdered men rushed UP and
stamped the face beyond recognition.
There were then loud howls that the
body should be taken to vacant
square in the vicinity and publicly
burned. At this instant, However, a
big squad Of police dashed up in pa
troll wagon. There were thousands Of
people congregated in the vicinity and
it seemed as if there might be clash
between the officials and the mob. The
police seemed, however, to have regain
ed their courage and they promptly
pushed the crowd aside, picked up the
body and threw it into the patrol wag-
on. The driver whipped up his horses
and the wagon started off with 5000
people running after it and clamoring
for the cremation of the body of the
desperate. The wagon, however, was
feeter than the mob, and it ultimately
made its way in safely to police head
quarters. There an immense crowd
had gathered, and great difficulty was
experienced in taking the corpse Of the
negro from the wagon into the morgue.
When Charles body was stripped 1t
was found to have been literally lacer-
ated from head to foot by the bullets
of the mob. Shortly after the body had
been placed upon the marble slab in
the morgue Annie Cant, negro wo-
man, who was alleged to have known
Charles intimately, came to the NOR
que and, after regarding the body care
fully, declared that it was not that Of
Charles, but Of his half brother, Sly
Jackson. Later in the evening, how
ever, Joseph Stass, responsible Itali-
an, arrived at the prison, and, seeing
the body, said positively that it was
that of the murderer OF Day and Lamb.
Coroner Richard said to represent
ative of the Associated Press, upon ex-
animation of the clothing Of the de-
ceased he had found slip Of paper
bearing the name of Robert V. Charles
who also went under the name Of Sly
Jackson.