New-York tribune., 1900-07-28
NEGRO MURDERER SLAIN.
Continued from first pnge.

and as fast as possible armed help was rushed
to the scene. In a little while there was an i'm
mense crowd encircling the square in which
Charles was located
FIRED ON PRIEST AND ACOLYTE.
In the mean tine Father Fitzgerald, Of st.
Johns Church was summoned TO administer
extreme JUNCTION 10 the police officers who were
lying in the alley. The priest responded
promptly and he was amounting the body of
Porteous, with Alfred J. Bloomfield. a young
boy. standing by mis- 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 Winchester
again ana BloomaeI5 fell dead. The priest, un-
hurt. left the scene after uuckily performing
the last Offices for the dead officer
~ this time the ambulance arrived and two
citizens volunteered to go into the aIeynay and
bring out The BODY Of La.y. They entered and
while they were attempting TO take the body Of
the dead officer from that Of his colleague.
Charles fred again. The citizens nevertheless
got Lally's body out of the alley and aft t5rWard
succeeded in taking Portelus-s body out also
IN the meantime an immense throng had
gathered in the vicinity, and schemes We're set
on foot 10 get Charles ont Of the building.
Charles, however did not propose to be cap
tured without selling his life dearly Time after
time he came TO the window, ana citizens
one by one, entered the alley, and blazed away
at them In this manner the confertioner. Lo-
clere, who was one of the special police squad;
ex-Policeman Evans. John BanviIe and George
H Lyons, son Of the head Of the biggest drug
establishment in the South. were wounded.
MANY SHOT AT NEGRO.
At this time the extra police began to fire
in6iscriminateIy at the negro. Who shot him
will probably never be known. Andy Van
Kurern, keeper of the police jail, got bullet in
the body and fell dead. Just afterward H. H.
Ball aged siXty-fve. working for the Mutual
Benevolent Association, doing business in the
vicinity. hit and mortaly wounded.
About the same time, with Charles firing his
Winchester indiscTimnately, Frank Bertucci re-
ceiyed a shot in the left shoulder, and j. w.
Bofit got a hot bullet in the right hand Ulti-
mately ii was concluded by those who we're
handling the situation that the only way to get
Charles was to burn the building in which he
was intrenched- There were. however, some
Ecruples about resorting to this method OF get
ting him owing TO the extremely thickly popu-
lated region in which the house was situated
Nevertheless, it was determined that the Fire
Department should be called out in order to pro-
tect surrounding property in case it should be
resolved to burn the building.
At the moment of apparent indecision some
one went TO a neighbOring grocery store, pur-
chased can Of oil, and, pouring it over the rear
steps Of the building applied a match. and soon
had the building in flames. So fercely did the
fire burn that it became evident that no human
being could live in the building, and picked men
from the police, special squads and members or
the militia stationed themselves about the build
ing IN order to pick off the desperate as he at
tempted 10 leave the house.
A young soldier named Adoph Anderson, a
member of the 18th Company of the State
Militia, was one of the first to see Charles as
he ran down the steps leading 10 the second
story. Charles across the yard and entered
the second room He fired several times at
Anderson, and the latter, who armed with
a Winchester rife, shot the negro in the breast,
and he fell and died soon afterward.
BODY SHOT TO PIECES.
AS soon as the negro fell numbers of persons
armed with Winchesters and revolvers rushed in
and fired into the body. Charles was literally
shot 10 pieces. After it was certain that he was
dead q mob entered the yard and dragged the
body into the street. The police and the mob
emptied their revolvers into it. While son OF
one Of the murdered men rushed up and
stamped the face beyond recognition. There
were then loud howls that the body should be
taken 10 a vacant square in the vicinity and
publicly burned
At this instant however. a big squad of police
dashed up in patrol wagon. There were thou
sands of persons in the vicinity, and it seemed
if there might be a clash between the Off
GERS and the mob The police seemed, however,
TO have regained their courage, and they
promptly pushed the crowd aside picked up the
body and threw il into the patrol wagon.
The driver whipped up his horses and the
wagon started off with five thousand persons
running after If and clamoring for the crema-
tion Of the body Of the desperate. The wagon,
however, was feeter than the mob, and it ulti-
mately made Its way in safety TO Police Head
quarters There an immense crowd had gath
cred, and great difficulty was experienced in
taking the corpse Of the negro from the wagon
into the morgue When Charles's body WAS
stripped il found TO have been laCerated
from head TO foot by the bullets of the mob
Shortly after the body had been placed on the
marble slab in the Morgue Annie Cant. negro
woman, who was alleged to have known Charles
intimately came to the Morgue, and after re-
garding the body carefully declared that it was
not that OF Charles, but Of his half-brother, Sly
jackson. Later in the evening Joseph Stassi,
responsible Italian, arrived at the prison and.
seeing the body, said positively that il was that
OF the murderer Of Day and Lamb
Coroner Richards said 10 reporter Of The
Associated Press that upon examination Of the
clothing Of the deceased he had found slip of
paper bearing the name of Robert Y. Charles,
who also went under the name Of Sly Jack
TWO MORE NEGROES KILLED
Shortly after the body Of Charles had been
taken from the scene a report spread that
there were still some negroes in the building.
The square was again quickly surrounded by
picked men, and under guard of a squad
made its way into the building. In a room
which the fire mad not yet reached three ne
groes were found dressed in female attire.
They were hustled out and Immediately sent to
prison in a patrol wagon. Subsequently a
fourth negro, mulatto, discovered in the
building. He made a desperate resistance 10 be-
ing arrested and while in the hands Of the
police was killed by a shot fired from a pistol
in the hands of one Of the disordery mobs that
had congregated in the vicinity.
Just about the time that Charles's body
reached the Morgue the body Of unknown
negro, who had been shot and stabbed to death
Gallatin-st., was carried in. This dariIy was
passing through the French Market when he
by q crowd Of whites The latter were
intensely excited by the news Of the slaughter
Of Porteous and others, and they Immediately
life and the angry mob kept his heels. the
crowd Increasing ID numb fs every minute