The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-28

1t Amy Further RiOting.
! chief of police, and Col. Wood, In COM
mand of the special police, and as fast
as possible armed help was rushed to
the scene. In little while there was an
immense armed crowd encircling the
square in which Charles was located.
Young Boy Murdered.
In the meantime Father Fitzgerald of
ST. Johns Church was summoned to ad-
minister extreme JUNCTION to the police Off
GERS who were lying in the alley. The
priest responded promptly and he was
amounting the body of Porteous with AL
fred ]. Bloomfield, young boy, standing
by his side. when Charles again appeared
at the window. The lad saw him at once
and begged the desperate not to shoot
him. Charles Immediately fired his Win
chester again and Bloomfield fell dead
The priest, unhurt. left the scene, after
pluckily performing the last Offices for the
dead officer.
AT this time the ambulance arrived and
two citizens volunteered to go into the all
ley way and bring out the body of Lally
They entered and while they were at
tempting to take the body of the dead off,
Ger from that of his colleague, Charles
fired again. The citizens, nevertheless.
got Lally's body out of the alley and aft
erward succeeded in taking Porteous' body
out also.
Sold His Life Dearly.
In the meantime an immense throng
had gathered in the vicinity, and schemes
were set on foot 90 get Charles out of
the building. Charles, however, did not
propose TO be captured without selling his
life dearly. Time after time he came to
the window. and as citizens, one by one
entered the alley. he blazed away at
them. In this manner Confectioner Le-
clere, who was one of the special police
squad, ex-Policeman Evans, John Ban
Vile and George H. Lyons, son Of the
head of the biggest drug establishment in
the South. were wounded
AT this time the extra police began to
fire indiscriminatly at the negro. Who
shot him will probably never be known
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keeper of police Jail. got a bullet in the
body and fell dead.
Just afterward H. H. Ball, an old man,
aged 65 working for the Mutual Benevo-
lent Association, doing business in the VI
cinity. was hit and mortany wounded
About the same time, with Charles firing
his Winchester indiscriminately Frank
Hertucci received a shot in the left
shoulder and ]. W. Boil got hot bullet
in the right hand.
Smoked Ont and Killed.
Ultimately it was concluded by those
who were handling the situation that the
building in which he was entrenched.
There were however, some scruples about
resorting to this method of getting him,
owing to the extremely thickly populated
section in which the house was situated
fire department should be called out in
order to protect surrounding property in
case it should be resolved to burn the
building.
At the moment of apparent indecision
| someone went to a neighboring grocery,
purchased a can of OIL and. pouring it
over the rear steps of the building, ap-
in flames. So fiercely did the fire burn
that It became evident that no human be-
ing could live in the building and picked
men from the police, special squads and
members OF the militia stationed them
selves about the building to pick off the
desperate as he attempted TO leave the
house.
A young soldier NAMED Adolph Ander-
son, a m mber of the Thirteenth Company
of the state militia was one of the first
to see Charles as he ran down the steps
leading to the second story. Charles ran
across the yard and entered the second
room. He fired several times at Anderson.
and the latter who was armed with a
winchester rife. shot the negro in the
breast and he fell and died soon after
Literally Shot 20 Pieces.
As soon as the negro fell numbers of
people armed with winchesters and re-
vovers rushed in and fired into the body.
Charles was literally shot TO pieces. Ar