The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-10

wounding Town Marshal Fate Atkinson of Opp, last Wednesday. were ordered to jail without bail at Andalusia yesterday after preliminary hearing and six of them were brought to Montgomery last night and lodged in the county jail.
 Three others in jail at Geneva. Six. teen of the negroes were discharged.
 Sheriff J. T. Bradshaw of Covingtor county, who brought the negroes tt Montgomery. reports that the situation al Andaiusia and Opp is quiet and that Marshall Atkinson is still alive.
 The negroes were brought to Montsom- cry by sheriff Bradshaw. W. s. Prest- wood and G. w. Duncan, Deputy sherins.
 One of the negroes. Frank Davis, is so badly. wounded that he had to be brought to Montgomery on stretcher and it Is expected that he will die. He is said to have been one of the leaders of the party of negroes which attacked Mar shal Atkinson and he was riddled with bullets by the arresting posse.
 The military company sent to Andalu- sia from Greenville remained therc until the trial of the negroes yesterday morn ing and returned to Greenville on the same train which transported Sherin Bradshaw, his deputies and their prison CTS to Montgomery. This train left An dalusia at 12:30 o'clock yesterday. The military company and the officers and their prisoners remained at Georgtana until the arrival of the northbound Lou isville and Nashville passenger train. The Sheriff reached Montgomery with the prisoners about 6 o'clock.
 The negroes in the Montgomery county tail are Dick Davis, Edwin Powell, Tom English, Jeff Taylor, Emanuel Casty and Frank Davis. The negroes in the Geneva county jail are Bud Mcintosh, Will Chat man and an unknown negro. These ne- groes will remain in jail until special term of the Circuit Court of Covington county can be convened to give them trial
 In an interview with a representative of The Advertiser Sheriff Bradshaw, who stayed last night at Mabson's Hotel. gave complete history of the Covington coun' ty troubies-
 .iWednesday evening five negroes, Dici Davis, Frank Davis, Sam Carter, Will Chatham and Dave Morrison. went tc Opp," said Sheriff Bradshaw. "The ne- groes had been drinking whiskey. They were employed at the turpentine stlil of Rozier and Williams about a half mile from Opp and they went up to the little town to make trouble. Remarking that they had come up there to do the town up,' they got into a difficulty with Joe Stanley, a young white man. The negroes presented pistols and raised a general disturbance, after which they re- turned to their shanties at the turpen- tine still} ,i
 ..Stanley reported the matter to Fate Atkinson, the Town Marshal, who depu- tized Joe Stanley, J. Wilson Dorsey, John Fftzsimmons and Marcus Snow. promi- nent citizens of the town. to go with him to arrest the negroes.
 'sNVhen the arresting party, lea py Marshal Atkins, got near the shanty they discovered there was a big crowd of negroes there. About the time the Mar shaPs posse got within fifteen or twenty feet of the shanty the negroes opened fire, Then the shooting began from both sides.
 '.WiIson Dorsey fell. He was killed almost instantly. Marshal Atkinson was the next to receive a fatal wound, but he was game and called to his men to go after the negroes. Fitzsimmons was badly wounded in two places in the right leg. Two negroes, Jim Hippens and an S%@~- fight that Frank Davis, the negro whom we brought to Montgomery, was danger ousIy wounded. He may die.
 About 8 o'clock Wednesday night re- ceived a telegram from Earl Boyett, young merchant at Opp, which Is nfteen miles south of Andalusia, advising me of the shooting and asking me to go there with deputies and to bring my blood- hounds. There was no train and took my men and my dogs and went through the country reaching opp about mid night.
 At daylight the next morning we went to the negro shanty and captured several of the negroes A number of them had left for the woods and I put my dogs and men on their trail. It was nip and tuck all day between the deputies and men who wanted to lynch the negroes. We ran three of the negroes with the dogs sixteen miles through swamps and pine forests and captured them within three miles of Elba in Coffee County. Another negro Dick Davis, believed to have been one of the leaders of the party which assaulted the town marshal, was chased by the dogs several miles into the swamp. They lost his trial and he made a complete circuit of more than mile, hiding within a few hundred feet of the shanty where his brother, Frank Davis, was lying seriously wounded. The dogs got so close on his trail that he raised up out of big bunch of grass and surrendered to the deputies.
 '"rhe dogs and deputies chased Bud Mo Intosh, Will Chatham and another negro soutward in the direction of Geneva and captured them. The mob was between them and Opp and had them cut off from the rest of my party and the deputies exercised excellent discretion by taking the three negroes to the Geneva jail, where they are now confined. Geneva is miles south of Opp.
 ''We put the negroes in the calaboose at Opp as. fast as we rounded them up and kept the calaboose heavily guarded to prevent an outbreak or other trouble. When we had caught twenty-two of the negroes we took them to the jail in An Only two of those who had been active in the assault upon the marshal They are Sam Carter and Dave Morrison. They are still at large. Citi- zens of Opp are looking for them and fear there will be trouble if they are caught. It will require good work on our part to prevent them from being lynched.
 When I got the prisoners in the jail at Andalusla I put on extra deputies and took extraordinary precautions to protect the negroes. The Jail Is secure. but there Is no jail yard and the building is easy of approach. There was no sem blance of trouble Thursday night, although we carefully guarded the jail