The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-19
TERRoR1zED By A NEGRO.
A Desperate Shoots and Robs Neal
Merchantville, n. j.


PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1S.-with a big
revolver and driving a team of horses at
breakneck speed. young negro desperate
terrorized a section Of southern New Jer-
sey this morning. robbed several men and
shot one, probably fatally. Nearly all the
| detectives and a considerable number of
the constables in Camden County secured
the country in pursuit, and at / o'clock
this afternoon Chief Linderman, Of Mer-
| chantville. captured him.
| Emanuel McKim is the desperado's
name. He is strong. dark-skinned man.
twenty-three years old. and has feen
working as a farm hand for Wilmer Col
| lins Moorestown farmer, McKin ap-
peared in the village Of Matchtown. near
Moorestown, this morning, driving rair
| Of horses to an ordinary shelving farm
wagon. Matchtown is a settlement of ne
groes. from which the notorious Lingo
hailed, and bears an unsavory reputa-
ton.
McKim drove through the place with
his horses at gallop and on the outskirts
OF the town met an Italian rag picker with
an old horse and wagon. He halted his
team and pointing his revolver at the
Italian. ordered him to give up all the
money he had. The rag picker did not
have cent, and with an oath McKim
jumped to his wagon seat again and whip
ped up his horses.
At the crossing OF Colestown and Sofrel
Horse Roads the negro encountered a man
named James Anderson. composit0r on
Philadelphia newspaper, riding bicycle.
He halted Anderson and at the point of
the revolver made him empty his pockets.
Just then Thomas Shea, farmer from
Merchantyille, appeared on the scene, and
Mckim turned to him. Anderson took ad-
vantage OF the opportunity, and. remount-
ing his wheel. rode us fast as he could to
Merchantyille.
1t seems that Shea resisted the des-
perados attempt to rob him, for not long
after Anderson reached MerchantyEle
George MCGOWAN, son of William c. Nc
Gowan, a farmer near Moorestown, drove
in with a wounded man In his wagon. Shea
had been shot in the mouth by McKim and
left in the road while the robber resumed
his career of highway robbery and shoot
ing.
The next heard of him was that. while
on the road to Moorestown. he met Charles
Anderson, farmer OF the neighborhood,
and forced Anderson to turn over all tho
money and articles Of value he had about
him. Then. doubtless fearing that he was
being hunted. McKim abandoned the wag-
on he had been driving and disappeared in
the woods
Word of his exploits had reached the
police OF Merchantville and Camden In the |
mean time. and Chief Of Police Linderman, |
OF Merchantville. and several detectives of |
Camden; Constable Fowler of Merchant |
vile. and others went in hot pursuit with !,
fast horses.
Chief Linderman went to where McKim |
had abandoned his team md after secur-
ing the horses followed the negro's tracks
across cornield to some woods about
two miles from Merchantvil,e, where Nc
Kim was found asleep. He was arrested
and submitted quietly. but on the :oad
to Mcrchantville they met Constable Fow-
Ter. at the sight Of whom McKim few
into a rage and tried to jump out of the
wagon, which was driven by Joseph Bur-
rough. He had to be beaten into uncon-
sciousness before he could be subdued. and
when the party reached Merchantville he
was still unconscious. He soon revived.
however. Chief Linderman was covered
with blood which had flowed from the
prisoners face and head.
James Anderson identified Mckim as
The man who stopped him. and said he
,ad seen the negro hold up three drivers
II teams before he was made Q victim.