The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-28
New Orleans Desperate Killed Three More
People and Wounded Others Before
Being Disposed Of
Armed With Winchester He Defed Officers
and Kept Up Murderous FusilIade
Until Smoked Out.

first to see Charles as he ran to the SEQ.
ond floor.
HIS QUIETUs.
Anderson shot the negro in the breast
and he fell and died soon after. AS soo,,
as the negro fell a number of people
armed with Winchesters rushed in and
nred into the body. Charles was literally
shot to pieces. The body was dragged
into the street There the notice and
MOP emptted their revolvers into It, while
a score Of men rushed up and stamped
| the face beyond recognition. There were
| loud howls that the body should be TAX
| en- to vacant square in the vicinity and
publicly burned. At this instant, how
ever, big squad of police dashed I'D in
patrol wagon. There were thousands
Of people congregated in the vicinity.
and 1t seemed as II there might be q
clash between the officers and the mob.
The police seemed, however, to have re-
gained their courage, and they promptly
pushed the crowd aside, picked up the
body and threw 1t into the patrol wagon
CHASED THE WAGON.
The driver whipped up his horses and
the wagon started off with 5000 people
running after 1t and clamoring FOR the
cremation Of the body OF the desperate.
The wagon was fieeter than the members
OF the mob, and 1T ultimately made its
way In safety to police headquarters.
There an immense crowd had gathered
and great difficulty was experienced in
taking the corpse Of the negro from the
wagon into the building. When Charles
body was stripped 1t was found to be ter
ribiy lacerated from head to food by the
bullets fired into 1t. Shortly after the
body had been placed on the marble slab
IN the morgue, a negro woman who was
known to have known him Intimately
came to the morgue and, examining the
hot
Of Charles, but that of his half brother,
Sly Jackson.
POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED.
Later in the evening, however, Joseph
Stassi responsible Italian, arrived at
the prison and, seeing the body, said posi-
lively that 1t was that of the murderer
OF Day and Lamb. Stassi said he had
|. lived in the building which Charles oc-
| cupied for several months, and that ne
was intimately acquainted with him He
said he could not be mistaken in his
identification. Corner Richard said to a
representative of the Associated Press
that upon examination OF the clothing Of
the dead man he had found slip Of pa
per bearing the name Robert V.
Charles who also went by the name
of Sly Jackson.
Shortly after the body Of Charles had
been taken away, a report spread that
there were some negroes in the burning
building. The square was again quickly
surrounded and special squad made its
way into the building. In a room, which
the fire had reached, three negroes were
found dressed in womens clothes.
ANOTHER DEATH.
They were hustled out and Immediately
| sent to prison In a patrol wagon Suisse
quenty fourth negro, a mulatto was
| discovered in the building. He made a
| desperate resistance against being ar
rested, and, while in the hands Of the
police, was killed by a shot fired from a
pistol In the hands of one Of the dis
orderly mob that had congregated in the
vicinity.
Just about the time that Charles body
reached the morgue, the body of an I'M
known negro, who had been shot and
stabbed to death on Gallatin street was
carried in. This negro 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 killing Of POrteous and others up
town, and they Immediately mobbed him.
| The unknown negro ran for his life and
the angry mob kept at his heels. the
| crowd increasing in numbers every min
ute. The negro finally succeeded in en-
terlng house on Gallatin street He
ran up stairs and jumped from the GAL
lery to the ground. Before he could rise
the mob shot and stabbed him to death.
THE KILLED.
a complete list of the killed since the
| trouble began is as follows: John T. Day
| police captain; Peter ]. Lamb, police
man; August Thomas, negro laborer in
employ Of New Orleans City Railway
! company; Baptiste FiIon, negro, aged
| twenty-five years, haborer in French mar
ket; Lewis Taylor, negro laborer in mar
| ket; Gabriel Porteous, white, servant Of
police; j. Lally, white, corporal police;
| "A. Vankuren, white keeper Of the city
! workhouse; Alfred B. Brumfeld, white.
employe Of Southern News company;
| Robert Charles, negro, triple murderer
and author Of the trouble; Anna Mabry,
| negro woman, killed in her home by
mob searching for fugitives; unknown ne
| gro, companion Of Charles