The leader., 1900-03-28

the case, but he has not denied being
on the train and doing the shooting
A report has been given out by him OF
some one else that he was kicked off
the train by Brakeman Perkins
while it was in motion, and that he
shot him under these circumstances;
but this statement is emphatically
negatived by the other train men and
by Messrs. Minard and Soulret, who
say the train was at dead stop when
the shooting occurred.
The editor of THE LEADER visited
the scene of the shooting Monday
afternoon and questioned Mr.. Minard
specially on this point. He stated that
his attention was first attracted to the
train by its slowing up opposite his
house, which is some 50 yards from
the railroad track, and he at once
started toward the railroad thinking
some of his cattle had got on the track
and caused the trouble. The train
was long one, and just as he reached
the top of the bank overlooking the
track, he saw that part of the train in
front of him was at complete stand
still and just then heard shot up the
track to his right. Looking in that di-
rection, he saw man on the ground
several feet away from the train run
ming towards the woods and the one on
top of the car opposite him fall. Mr..
Minard's statement is confirmed by
Mr.. Soubret.
Mr.. Minard says that his son, David
Minard, was at Pfeifer & Dreyfus Plan
er when the train passed there and re-
cognized Anglin riding on the bumpers
between two of the freight cars.
1t seems to have been known to a
few of Anglin's associates around town
that he intended to leave Brookhaven,
and the general impression is that he
intended to skip his bond in the Null
lin case. Be this as it may, his last
bloody act so impressed his bondsmen,
Messrs. H. Cassidy, Jr., VIM. Hardy
and Allen Smith, that they have asked
to be released.
Anglin has suffered a good deal
at times with rheumatism during
the last year or two, and this probably
accounts for the poor headway he made
at escaping after Sundays crime.
When captured, he had about three
dollars in cash on his person.
Up to this morning Brakeman Per-
kins was reported still alive.
Rumors that Anglin Would be Lynched
Caused the Stonewall Guards to be
Ordered Out.
BRooKHAvEN, March 26.-Acting on
what he considered well-founded ru-
mors that mob of railroad men would
be organized at McComb City and come
here last night to lynch Moses Anglin,
the young desperate who yesterday
shot Brakemen Perkins, near this place,
Sheriff Applewhite late yesterday even
ing wired Gov. Longino to place the
Stonewall Guards, the local military
company, under his orders. The gov
ernnor promptly responded by ordering
Acting Captain j. l.. Storm to hold his
company subject to the sherif's orders,
and before the late train reached here
from the south the Jail was completely
surrounded by State militia and posse
of special deputies. The mob failed to
materialize, but had it done so would
have met with determined resistance.
DR.. r. R. Applewhite, Lincoln's present
sheriff, was captain in the twelfth
Mississippi Regiment during the civil
war, commanding that gallant regiment
during several desperate engagements,
and passed through many of the pitched
battles fought by the Army of Northern
Virginia. No braver or more resolute
officer could be found in Mississippi
than he. He is in full sympathy with
the anti-mob spirit voiced by Gov.
Longino in his late message, and no
mob will ever have an easy job which
assaults prisoner in his custody.
There is but one sentiment here in re-
guard to Anglin's crime, that of un-
qualified condemnation, but the people
want the law to take its course and JUS
tice to be meted out in the appointed
way.-Times Democrat Special.