The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-26

ing the entire force on duty and by dis
persing all mobs, prevented serious trou-
Bile as the result OF the killing OF Captain
Day and two other policemen. It is now
recognized that lynching was narrowly
averted The mob formed and reformed
near the scene of the murders, and the
boastful and threatening remarks of
number of negroes-fcr 1t is a negro section
OF the city-kept it in very ugly state of
mind.
Nothing but the activity Of the police IN
making arrests whenever anyone threat
ened the peace, and the lack OF leader
prevented the mob from venting Its anger
on the negroes who were thought to be in
sympathy with the colored murderer.
In response to call for a mass meeting
some eight or nine hundred white men,
majority of them Of the rougher and dis
orderly classes, met at Lee Circle about
o'clock tonight The mob apparently bad
no leaders. and at first did not know what
to do Some one proposed that it march
to the scene of last nights murder, un-
earth Charles, the murderer, who is sup
posed to be hiding somewhere in the neigh
borhood, and lynch him.
The crowd shouted Let's lynch him.!
and marched up st. Charles Street TO
Washington, occasionally firing their weap-
ons in the air and giving chase to any
negro that came in sight. The negroes,
however, got well out of the way.
Notice was at once sent to all the sta
tions to send all available policemen to
the negro district where the mob was
threatening trouble. At Saratoga and
Washington the mob had swelled to two
thousand persons and was in a very ugly
spirit. shots growing more frequent as
they advanced. The negroes of the dis
trict seemed thoroughly panic-stricken
and stayed in their houses to avoid trou-
BILE.
A second mass meeting was held at Nor
ris Park. where several wild speeches were
made. and those who counseled moderation
were hooted down. The mob searched the
street cars for negroes, but the car con-
panies declined negro passengers tonight
to avoid trouble.
negro boy was badly beaten over the
head with a ball bat and two negro men
injured. At 10 o'clock the mob, re-en-
forced to between 5000 and 1000, started
for the parish prison to lynch Leonard
Pierce the friend of the murderer, who
is confined there.
When the mob reached the parish prison
they found that the sheriff had force OF
forty men inside armed with rifles. A
large force OF policemen were drawn up
in front of the prison. The chief Of police
and acting mayor addressed the mob and
warned it against violence. The speeches
and the activity of the police in keeping
the mob moving and preventing any large
crowd organizing in one place had the ef-
fpft of gradual digiutegTatiOQ.
About eco armed men started out for the
negro quarters on Franklin Street. The
mob, after standing in front Of the parish
! prison for some time, and seeing how hope
| less any attack on 1t was, gradually broke
up into small squads and marched in sew
! eral directions. Such few negroes as were
seen were fired on.
| On Custom House Street negro was
/ shot and killed. A boy was Academia ly
! shot on Poydras Street. The Charity Hos
I pital reports that six negroes have been
/ brought in there tonight wounded, shot,
| cut or beaten by the mob. These are be-
| lieved to be all Of the casualties of the riot
( At midnight the trouble seems over. the
police having things in hand, and the mob
! broken up. The mayor has issued pIoc-
iamation calling upon all good citizens TO
I assist the police in keeping order.
large proportion OF the mob carried
revolvers and many had Winchester. In
fammatory speeches were made, shouts
/ were heard of Down with the negroes,
and demands were made for the appoint
ment of vigilance committee. The mob
marched to several places in the district
+ where It was reported armed negroes we're
assembled, made threatening demonstra-
tions there, but found nobody. Several ne
groes who were found at large were at
tackled but escaped with little injury be-
yOnd a few blows.
The police, by keeping the crowd on the
move and by placing Gordon around the
negro quarter where the murder was COM
mitted. and inducing the negroes to keel
at home, prevented any serious trouble
/ The mob or mobs paraded until after mid
! night, and gradually broke up. The danger
| is over for the present at least, as far as
New Orleans is concerned.
! In Gretna, opposite the city, the negroes
/ did not fare SO we'll. Several posses were
along the line OF the Southern Pacific and
Texas Pacific Railroads, expecting TO catch
the negro murderer when he left the city
All trains were searched, and all negroe:
. found out of their houses after o'clock al
night were arrested or fired on as sus'
picious. William Rawlins. a young negro
/ from New Orleans, who landed at Gretns
this morning. was fired upon by one OF the
posse, wounded in several places, anC
| brought over to the Charity Hospital fo
| treatment.
Much of D. bitterness of the mob We:
| caused by the boastful satisfaction of SOM
| of the lower grade negroes over the killing
of the white policemen. The recorder
court was crowded today with negroes ar
rested on the charge of insulting the police
and they have all been given heavy sen
fences. An old negro woman. Matild;
Gamble, was sent to the workhouse 70
! thirty days for saying that it was pit.
that only three policemen were shot. Let
| Jackson John Kennedy, Simon Montague
and a dozen other negroes. were before thu
recorder for the same offence, and received
the same sentence, a meath in the work
house.
Edward Mccarthy. n young white man
who said he was a sailor from New York
and who was roughly handled by the mol
for expressing sympathy for the negro
murderer was among those brought befor'
the recorder The prisoner said he came
10 this city from New York several day
ago. He was standing at the corner whel
n white man came along and said that al
the negroes should be lynehed. McCarth
argued that some negroes had white heart
and were as good as white men, and tina
| il was not right that all OF them should b
| lvnched because Of the action of two.
DO you consider a negro as good as
white MANI asked Judge Hughes, the re
corder.
In body and soul. yes, :" replied the pris
oner.
He was fined s25 or thirty days in u
parish prison.
To allay TIE race feeling the Louisian
Missionary Baptist State convention tool
ored) today adopted a resolution deplorin
the murder Of the policeman by 'lawies