The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-03
HE SHOT HIS MAN
IN MAIN STREET
Exciting Times About the
First Police Station.
a CROWD COLLECTS,
The Police Had 10 Use Firmness and
Tact to Keep Order.
ONE NEGRO WILL PROBABLY DIE.
Another. Who Was Cut by the Wound
ed Man, Is Seriously Hurt.
The Man Who Did
the Shoot ing
Made His
Escape.
The Police Had TO Use Firmness anc
Tact to Keep Order.
ONE NEGRO WILL PROBABLY DIE.

Ed Lanier shot and probably fatal,
wounded James Lcathcrs, near Eish-
1ocnth Street on Main, yesterday after
room about SO O'Clock Lanicr escaped
:, Few minutes previously Leatfcrs cut
Sol Williamson very seriously, at No 2iVE
East Main.
The shooting created the mast intense
excitement, and n riot. or something very
,,,osc 10 IL AT one time seemed in'nlh-
cut. i, was hard To tell why the Peopie
z.loj,c as we'll as black. should have be-
o,,,n ca excited hut the crowd became
-.,.a-,y wrought up and it required him-
moss and tact on the part of the policc lo
quiet them.
HOW IT BEGUN
r..4hors and Sol Williamson became
i,,,oiy-.,d il, a fight about woman at NO
40. Fast Main. Lcathers. according 10
Williamson threw a lighted lamp at MN
,,d ,b.n cut him across the idcc'
through the right eye -. ,a
feathers ran out into the street, ana ana
1l,er. he and Lanier began a row "
,oIlrse A crowd gathered
II seems that Lanier was sll"c ~
somebody in the crowd WIN M,
~ M, the street to Eighteenth ne
.lotDyNFi
distance. Ianier got a Itlstol SOM" nc
1S,,+ I-iobreen1h and Main 1t was I'M
Se;b1 10 discover from whence II
- IJa went back along Main d shoi
distance and met Leathers ana ttiose VIII
him or course and
f;. crowd collected at once re" ,1a
,,.ee,d when IIanier drew ms Pis'o 800
90 71sa II. He was only a le" 1ee
ONO ham struck leatherS Al ny H.
oIle 0'.r 10 in The right hip, one IN 'he
@p'o.r'' a,,;sr dropped his pistol at the 'h,Gd d
Ia ran. Ieathers seized H. anu
si.9' I.3,,a1, badly shot, fred twice at lls
~ssa;iant running down E,sn'seii''' :lsa.
S.raor in the direction OF the l.'et
81 IT CAUSED y PA>A. the
manic seized the crown atterad in
shooting began. ana IN ,,,,,rs rushing
80 direction; large nuiansi, s =, rooms
eFefS harber shops, ana Dan 'ot''~
- escape the flying leao. o,,,r white
TO '9Iof Io,,r Durlzin, IL young la
l'n1 ,aa IN to seize the l,ls'ot
,,,t further shooting. a'''' -Dl,eoscior,
a,.,,,cr of many lives lie 90. ',,,,r man.
-be nistol when anoti'si 7rou,,l,
al. Olsen. became lhNoiN.' No',-;., hand
,,;th him. thinking he Was ''''>
in the fight cor-eant Jeter.
lhe Vost Goodman, Robinson anu
i...li, y,cro on the scene by lili' I'm.
oa,cer Robinson secured LeathelS- 80,
"a Dur,5ir were also taken 10 'he II -
Station "a ro,loy the
Thc officers did their best TO loii'" ~ ,nt
,,ae;nc negro who did the shooti,'s 49,
the crowd took delslll "a e,,,' ;, .rtav
,hnr, off the scent. lust for run. ilieS
IA ia give ,Ip efforts after a brlei Htlle'
CROWD AT THE STAIloN-HotSh 81
An immense crowd followed the oiilcers
and prisoners to the sta1io1i-houSe- he
,,oor,e white and black, collected ABOUT
The stairs leading up to the statloh III
such great numbers that the ponce i'''u
10 repeatedly diSperse them. but seis
fow were allowed TO so upstairs. There
were probably not less than one thousand
,crsons in Eighteenth Street, as closely
iar,ned about the Station-house entrance
as possiblc. Two negroes became IN
yolyed in a. fight while the crowd was
densest. officer: Robinson waded out and
brought in one of the scrapperS, and on
his way back pulled in another negro who
interfercd With The officer.
About this time the ambulance, with
DR. ". Armistead ellis. arrived 1t was
hard for the ambulance to force its way
through the crowd TO the station-house
steps. DR.. GillS made his way upstairs
and examined JeatherS. He probed for
The ball in the abdomen. The bullet en-
tered in the groin, and apparently ranged
upward. There was little blood which
caused the fear that there was internal
bleeding. He was removed to the city
alinshouse. Mounds caused by one bah
in the thigh, and another in the little
finger of the right hand, are not serious
MeSsrS. Durkin and Olsen We're dis
charged, as they We're entirely bla,nelcss
In the affair.
THE CROWD FINGERED.
Even after the wounded negro WAS
taken TO the hospital the crowd
about the station-house did not
dispersc. The people seemed wait
ing for something. pcrhans onc-tbird
Was white. Everybody seemed in more or
less bad humor. Nobody could have told
why Two negroes had become involved
in probably fatal affray. There was no
question OF race clash originally. but
many whites, Well as blacks express
ed indignation that there should have
been the reckless shooting in broad day
light on a crowded thoroughfare.
a FRESH ROW.
Just about the time the crowd seemed
ready to leave. considerably past &
o'clock, a car conductor became involved
In a row with an apparently drunken
negro at Eighteenth and Main. and
bounced him OF the car The negro re-
fused to remain bounced and sprang upon
the platform as The car was moving on
eastward The conductor rang down the
car and called back the motoIncer. TIE
two tackled the negro and quite f. = by
elected him at the middle OF the block.
The incident created no little exc G,
,nent. The objurgations of the ci
negro drew a larger crowd to the sceHe.
The whites among the bgstanders w's e
pronounced in their expressions OF indg
nation at the negro's conduct. The
negroes were silent. Had they been other
wise there would have been trouble sure
enough.
WILLIAMSON ARRESTED.
After taking i eafhers TO the City Hos I