The leader., 1900-03-28
NOSE ANGLIN'S No. 2.
He Shoots a Brakeman who Re-
fuses to Let Him Beat His
Way OH a Train.

fuses to Let Him Beat His
Way OH a Train.
The StOnewaIl Guards Called
Out to Prevent n Lynching.
All Now Quiet.
A furry of excitement was caused
in town last Sunday about noon by the
report that Brakeman Charles Per.
kins who had left here a half hour
before on freight No. ~ had been ia
tally shot just north of Brookhaven
by tramp who was trying to beat his
way on the train and that the tramp
had escaped. The news was brought by
the crew of train No. ~, which had
backed back from the scene of the
shooting, bringing the wounded man,
who was at once carried to the Magee
House, and DR.. j. w. Bennett, the
Railroad Surgeon, promptly summon
ed.
According to the story of the train
men, some one, whom they supposed
to be tramp, had been discovered by
Brakeman Perkins stealing a ride be-
tween the cars, just as they neared the
Cruise place two miles north of town,
and the train was tagged and stopped,
just as it was opposite the Cruise res
idence, to put him off, as it was posi-
lively against the Railroad Company's
orders to allow any one to ride on a
freight except members of the crew.
The supposed tramp became enraged
when forced to abandon his perch by
the brakeman, and as soon as he was
on the ground clear of the train, drew
revolver and fired at Brakeman Per-
kins on top of the car His aim was
true. The bullet pierced the right
ear, on its range upward, entered the
skull just above the ear and came out
again about inches from where it en-
tered, and the brakeman fell PROSTATE
on top of the car, while his murderer
turned and ran and soon disappeared
ih the bushes on the east side of the
road.
AS soon as the news was received
here, City Marshal Hurst and Sheriff
Applewhite organized posse on
horses, including S. F. Magee and his
pack of blood hounds, and started to
the scene of the murder. Marshal
Hurst reached the Cruise place little
in advance of the main party. 1t is oc-
cupied at present by Mr.. l. B. Minard
and his brother-in- law, Mr. Louis
Soulret, and these gentlemen at once
gave him information which made the
capture of the fugitive easy. part of
it was also in the nature of a surprise,
for Mr.. Soulret told that instead of his
being regular tramp, as the railroad
men had supposed, he was no other
than
MOSES ANGLIN,
well-known young man of Brook
haven, who it will be remembered, kill
ed Mr.. Patrick Mullen on the 5th of
last December, and was already under a
thousand dollar bond to answer at the
Circuit Court for that act. They told
the Marshal that they had seen the
man who did the shooting run into the
woods Immediately afterward, and fol-
lowing the course he had gone soon
after the train backed down to Brook
haven, they had found Anglin at the
house of Frank Baggett, a colored man,
about mile and half to the north
east of the Cruise place, and were con-
fident from the way Anglin spoke and
looked when they told him their bust
ness, that he was the man. The man
who did the shooting had also dashed
through small pool of water as he
started from the railroad, and they no.
ticed Anglins pants were wet.
With this direct clew, Marshal Hurst,
with several others, without waiting
to use the hounds, pushed right on to
Frank Baggett's house and there, sure
enough, Anglin was found, sitting on
the gallery, in conversation with some
of the negroes present.
Deputy Marshal Tom Ratcliff and
Assessor j. c. Cosnahan, reached the
house in advance of the rest of the
posse, and Ratcliff made the arrest.
Anglin showed considerable agitation
on being told he was wanted, but offer
ed no resistance, and when the deputy
marshal told him he wanted his pistols,
held up his coat and displayed a 3S
calibre blue steel Smith & Wesson
pistol with a six inch barrel, in his left
hip pocket. This had one chamber
freshly discharged, and all the rest
were loaded. This was the only weapon
he carried. Anglins left eye and the
upper part of his left cheek were
bruised and his lip slightly cut, as il
by his teeth, and referring to this, he
intimated that he had been roughly
handled by the brakeman and shot
him in self-defense, but he refused to
make any definite statement.
AS he made slow headway at walking
he was placed on horse, turned over
to Sheriff Applewhite and soon brought
to town by that official and landed in
the county Jail. When the first an
nouncement of the shooting was made
there was feeling of great indignation
and of sympathy for the young brake
man who had been brutally shot down
in the discharge of his duty; but when
the news spread that Nose Anglin was
the man who had shot him, Anglin's
other bloody act and his general con-
duct since We're recalled and his con-