The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-03
CHARLES SHOT TO PIECES
After Killing Three Persons in a
New Riot.
BLOODSHED AT NEW ORLEANS.
Two More Police Omcers Among tho
sIain-Twelve Persons Dead Since BE-
ginning of the TrOuble-wnd Scenes An
Crescent City.

New Orleans, La, July 30.-Twelve
persons killed, including one woman,
and twenty-eight wounded, including
a woman and a girl, some so seriously
that death is probable, is the casualty
list of the troubles in New Orleans
which began with the attempt of Po-
licemen Day and Lamb to arrest the
negroes Charles and Pierce. Charles
was shot to pieces after a desperate
battle lasting several hours, in which
he succeeded in killing Sergeant Ga
briel Porteus, Andy Van Kurem, keep
er of the police Jail, and Alfred J. B.
Bloomfield, young boy, and fatally
wounding Corporal John +. Lally, John
Banville, ex-Policeman Frank III.
Evans, and A. S. Leclerc, one of the
leading confectioners of the city, and
more or less seriously several other
persons.
Cost of the Trouble.
A complete list of the casualties
since the trouble began follows:
Killed: John T. Day, white, police cap"
tain; Peter ]. Lamb, white, policeman;'
August Thomas, negro, laborer; Bap-
tiste Filean, negro, aged 70 years;
Lewis Taylor, negro, laborer; Gabriel
Porteus, white, sergeant of police; Jo-
seph Lally, white, corporal of police;
A. Van Kurem, white, keeper OF city
workhouse; Alfred j. Brumfield,
white; Robert Charles, negro, au-
thor of the trouble; Anna Mabry, ne
gro woman, killed in her home by
mob; unknown negro, companion OF
Charles. Wounded: Esther Fields, ne
gro; Oswald Mcmahon, white; Frank
Shepherd, white; Alex. Ruffln, negros
Joseph Deeds, white; @. F. Davis
white; ]. Cluny, white; George Morria,
negro; Lean White, negro; Henry
Daurin. white; Louis Lapuyade,
, white; VIM. Armstrong, negro; Charles
Doyle, white; Tony Michel, white; Jo-
sephine Wild, white; Colas, negro;
James Nelson, negro; Thos. Sanders,
negro; Nathan Brown, negro; C.
Washington, negro; q. II. Bate,
white; Henry Davis, white; George
Lyons, white; A. S. Leclerc, white;
John Banville, white; Frank Bertucci.
white; Frank Evans, white; ]. w.
Boil, white.
At a late hour mob which had
evaded the militia and the citizens"
police burned the Lafon schoolhouse,-
which was devoted exclusively to the
education Of negro children. Twenty
thousand 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 citi--
zens and the negro with his rifle.
Fires on Police Officers.
The bloodshed resulted from an at
tempt of Sergeant Porteus and Cor
poral Lally to make prisoner ob
Charles. The informant Of the police
men, a negro man, went along. The
party entered the side alley and went
to the yard. They were surprised al
most in the same way that Captain
Day and Patrolman Lamb were.
Before the officers were aware of it,
Charles who had hidden behind n
glass docr, raised his rife and fired
rapidly. Lally fell with a bullet in
the right side of his abdomen. Por-
teus was shot through the heart, and
his body fell on that of the fatally
wounded Lally.
All the murders were committed un-
der the highest tension of excitement.