The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-28
PITCHED BATTLE WITH
A NEGRO DESPERATE
Twelve Persons Killed and TWenty-Eight Wounded
in the Disorders in New Orleans.
Murderer Burned Out From House and Shot to Pieces After
Killing Several ASSailantS.
w. Bofel one

the left shoulder and J. w. Bofel one
in the right hand.
Some one went to neighbOring gro
Gerry, purchased a can of oil. and pour
ing it over the rear steps Of the build
ing applied a match and soon started
a fire.
A young solder named Adolph An
derson, q member of the Thirteenth
company of state militia, was one of
the first to see Charles as he left the
steps. Charles ran across the yard.
and as he did so Anderson fred several
times. He shot the negro in the breast
and Charles fell and died soon after
ward.
AS soon as the negro fell numbers Of
persons armed with Winchesters and
Teyolvers rushed IN and fired into the
/ body. Charles was literally shot to
pieces.
After il was certain that he was dead
a mob entered the yard and dra gged
the body into the street. There the pO-
lice and the mob emDtied their revoIv-
erS into the corpse, while a son of one
of the murdered men rushed up and
stamped the face beyond recognition.
The police pushed the crowd aside
picked up the body and threw it into
the patrol wagon. The driver whipped
UP his horses and the wagon started
off. with 5000 people running after it
and clamOring for the cremation OF the
! body of the desperate. The wagon was
faster than the mob and il ultimately
made its way in safety TO police head
quarters.
There IN immenEH crowd had Hath-
cred and great difficulty was expe-
rienced in taking the corpse Of the ne
gro from the wagon into the mOrgUe.
Shortly after the body had been
placed upon the marble slab in the
morgue, a negro woman. who was al
legged to have known Charles intimate
| ly, came TO the mOrgue and after re-
garding the body carefully declared it
was not that of Charles. but that Of
his brother, Sly Jackson. Later. how
ever, Joseph Stassi, a responsible Ital-
ian, positively identified it as that Of
the murderer Of Day and Lamb.
Burn a School House.
Shortly after the body Of Charles had
( been taken away a report spread that
/ there were still some negroes in the
burning building The square was
! quickly surrounded by a guard Of men
4 with Winchesters and a special squad
made its way into the burning build
4 ing. In a room which the fire had not
yet reached three negroes were found
! dressed in women's clothes. They
/ were hustled out and sent TO jail in a
/ partol wagon. Subsequently a fourth
! negro, a mulattO, was discovered in the
! building He made desperate resis-
/ lance and while in the hands of the pO-
! lice was shot and killed by a shot fired
/ from pistol in the hands of one of
/ the diSOrderly mob that had cOngTegaI-
/ ed in the vicinity.
A negro was passing the French
/ market when he was seen by d crowd of
white men, all intensely excited by the
/ news of the killing Of POrteus and
/ others, and they Immediately sur
rounded him He ram for mis- life. The
/ negro finally succeeded in entering a
/ house on GalIatin street. He ran up
stairs and jumped from the gallery 10
/ the ground Before he could rise the
mob shot and stabbed him to death.
Other Negroes Killed.
After midnight. d mob which had
evaded the militia and citizens police,
I attacked the ThOmy LafOn school
/ house, Sixth and Rampant streets, up
/ on the suppOSitOn that the negroes had
/ stored arms and ammunition in the
| building. UnOppOSed they had no diff
/ ficulty in gaining possession and firing
/ the structure. destroying il completely
/ The school building was devoted eN-
/ clusively TO the education of the ne
4 grOes.
! The previous night passed with COM
! parative absence of violence, except
/ for the atrociOus murder Of Hannah
/ Mabry. an old negress, at her home
/ at 1929 ROsseau street. A mob went
/ TO her house at 1 o'clock this morning
OStensibly to catch couple of deSper-
/ ate negroes who were said 10 reside
! there In the house were Hannah her
| 62-year-Old husband, a son and an in
/ FAINT child. The mob broke into the
house and shot the woman, who died
on her way TO the hospital