, 1900-07-28

and Bloomfield fell dead. The priest
unhurt, left the scene, after pluckily
performing the last Offices for the dead
officer.
volunteered to go into the alley and
bring out the body Of Lally. They emit
cred and while they were attempting
to take away the bodies, Charles fired
again. The men got Lally's body out,
and a%fterward took Porteus' body out.
An immense crowd had now gathered
and schemes were then set on foot to
get Charles out of the building.
Charles, however, did o propose to
be captured without selling his life
dearly. Time after time he came to the
window, and as men, one by one, en-
tered the alley, he blazed away at them.
In this manner, Confectioner Leclerc,
one of the special police squad, expo
liceman Evans, John Banville and
George H.. Lyons were wounded.
At this time the extra police began
to fire at the negro and he returned
their fire. Andy Van Kuren, jailer, got
a bullet in the body and fell dead. Just
afterward H. H.. Ball, aged 60, was hit
and MORALLY wounded. About the
some time Frank Bertucci received a
shot in the left shoulder and ]. W. Bofel
one in the right hand.
Ultimately it was decided that the
only way to get Charles out was to
burn the building in which he vas en-
t%renched, and the fire department was
called out to protect surrounding prop
erty. Some one went to a grocery, pur-
chased a can of oil, and pouring it over
the rear steps of the building, applied
a match and soon started a fire. Pick
ed men from the police squad and SOL
diers stationed themselves about the
building in order to pick off the desper-
ado as he attempted to leave. Adolph
Anderson, of the state militia, was one
Of the first to see Charles as he left the
steps. Charles ran across the yard. AS
he did so Anderson fired several times.
He shot the negro in the breast and
Charles fell and died soon afterward.
AS soon as the negro fell numbers Of
persons armed with Winchesters and
revolvers rushed in and fired into the
body.
Charles was literally shot to pieces.
After it was 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 the corpse, while a son Of one of
the murdered men rushed up and
stamped the face beyond recognition.
There were then loud shouts that the
body should be taken to a vacant square
and publicly burned. At this instant,
however, a big squad of police arrived.
Thousands of persons had c~ongregated
in the vicinity and it looked as if there
would be a clash. The police promptly
pushed the crowd aside, picked up the
body and threw it into the patrol wa
gon. The driver whipped up his horses
and the wagon started off, with 5000
people running after 1t and clamorine
for the cremation of the desperate
The wagon reached police headquar-
tiers, where an immense crowd had
gathered and great difficulty was ex.
perienced in taking the corpse into
the morgue When Charles body was
stripped it was found to have been lit.
orally lacerated from head to foot by
the bullets.
Shortly after the body Of Charles had
been taken away a report spread that
| there were still some negroes in the
burning building. The square was
quickly surrounded and a special squad
made its way into the burning build
ing. In a room which the fire had not
yet reached, three negroes were found
dressed in women's clothes. They were
sent to Jail and later a fourth negro
was discovered in the building. He
made a desperate resistance and while
in the hands Of the police was killed