River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-08-02
SOLD LIFE DEARLY.
Act of Desperate Negro in New
Orleans.
Riotous Proceedings Attend Attempt
10 Apprehend Robert Charles
Many Killed and
Wounded.

New Orleans, July 2s.-After a des-
perate battle lasting for several hours.
in which he succeeded in killing Sergt.
Gabriel Porteus. Andy Van Kurem,
keeper of the police Jail, and Alfred j.
b. Bloomfield, a young boy, and fatally
wounding Corp. John +. Lally, John
Banville, ex-Policeman Frank H. Evans
and A. S. Loclere, one of the leading
confectioners of the city, and more or
less seriously several other persons,
the negro desperate, Robert Charles,
who killed Capt. Day and Patrolman
Lamb and badly wounded Officer Mora,
was smoked out of his hiding place in
the heart of the residence section of
the city Friday afternoon and literally
shot to pieces.
Great Excitement Ensued.
The tragedy was one of the most re-
markable in the history of the city,
and 10000 people, soldiers, policemen
and citizens, were gathered around the
square in which Charles was finally put
to death. Tremendous excitement
reigned in New Orleans as the battle
went on between the police and citizens
and the negro with his Winchester.
After the tragedy was over and Charles
was dragged out from the mud and
slush in which he had fallen, with the
mob bowling for the burning of his
body, statements were made that the
man killed was not really the despera-
do who had killed Day and Lamb, but
papers found on his person and the
fact that he fought so desperately for
his life and shot so accurately seem
to leave little doubt that the right
man was killed.
The total number of victims since
the trouble began is: Killed, IL;
wounded. %.
The Victims.
John T. Day. police captain; Peter
j. Lamb. policeman: August Thomas,
negro laborer; Batiste Filean (negro),
aged rs years, laborer in French mar
ket; Lewis Taylor, negro laborer; Ga
briel Porteus (white), sergeant of po-
lice; Joseph Lally (white), corporal of po
lice; A. Van Kurem (white), keeper of
the city workhouse; Alfred j. Brum-
field (white), employee of Southern News
company; Robert Charles negro), triple
murderer and author of the trouble;
Anna Mabry NEGRO woman). killed in her
home by a mob searching for fugitive;
unknown negro. companion of Charles.
Troops Were Called Out.
New Orleans, La, July 27,-In the
rioting of Wednesday night and
Thursday one negro was beaten to
death, six were so badly wounded that
their lives are despaired of, and about
score of people, white and black,
male and female, have been more or
less seriously wounded. Disorderly
acts following the disturbances of
Wednesday night were committed
throughout the city Thursday, and re-
suited in the swearing in by the may
or of 500 special policemen and the or
dering out of 1900 of the state militia
upon orders of Gov. Heard, who re-
sponded promptly to the appeal of
Mayor Capdeville, for assistance in
suppressing the existing lawlessness,
and in preventing a recurrence of the
violence of Wednesday night.
Throughout the day attacks were
made by irresponsible mobs of whites
upon the black element, and the ne
groes before nightfall had been COM
pletely chased from the streets.