Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-06-13
A LYNCHING
is PROBABLE
The Shooting Of John G. Foster,
Near Shreveport, La, Yesterday
Nav Result in Mob Violence.
MANY NEGROES ARRESTED
The Man Who Fired the Shot Escaped
The Negroes Had Followed Preacher
from Houston, Texas, to the
Louisiana Plantations.

Shreveport, La, June 13.-The lates
reports from the Foster plantation
where John G. Foster was murdered
yesterday, say that a dozen or more
frightened negroes are still covering
in the Kinnebrew store surrounded bS
an armed mob which threaten every
moment to lynch the whole party
Prince Edwards, the colored man who
fired the fatal shot, however, has not
been apprehended Foster was young
man, brother-in-law of Governor Nc
MILAN of Tennessee, and came of one
of the first families in Louisiana.
lynching is regarded as highly proba-
BILE.
Mrs. Edwards wife of the alleged
murderer, was among those arrested.
She had the shotgun with which her
husband killed Foster. prince told
the other men to stand back and he
would settle the business" she said.
"Then he went in front of them and
fired and Foster fell.' Shortly after the
shooting a posse with bloodhounds set
after Prince. BY some it is thought
the fugitive committed suicide in some
isolated spot. The Foster plantation
is five miles east of this city. Trouble
has been brewing for sometime be-
tween the negroes and the overseers.
Foster, thinking he could succeed where
the overseers failed, started for the ne
gro quarters yesterday. The negroes
We're gathered in a cabin and he was
some distance away when the shot
which killed him was fired. The ne
groes scattered, but all except Edwards
We're captured.
A FALSE PROPHET.
Houston, Texas, June 13.-The ne
groes corralled at Shreveport were ta-
ken from Houston during the winter
by a negro preacher calling himself
"Lijah, the Prophet" He created
great furore among the ignorant blacks
by predicting dire disaster and finally
persuaded about 200 to go to Louisiana
in order to avoid death in the prophe-
sled destruction of Houston. 1t was
ascertained afterward that Smith, the
name of the self-styled prophet, who is
acting as agent for the planters who
We're short of help and had used his in
f1uence as exhorter to get the negroes
to go with him.
Early this morning the Shcav2 v2port
posse of 60 men withdrew to tt.is side
of the river to escape the death scenes
which Captain H. P. Wells, in COM
mand, said We're inevitable. "Taeca IS
absolutely no doubt" said Captain
Wells, "that they will hang Prophet
Smith. He is generally considered to
have been at the bottom of the corapir-
acy that resulted in the murder Of
Foster. Ten negroes confined in jail al
Rossier City We're taken to KiHne-
brew's store in order that the whole
crowd might be under one roof.
EDWARDS SURROUNDED.
Shreveport, La, June 13.-It is re-
ported that Edwards, the negro mur-
derer, has been surrounded in the
swamps near Belcher by a posse head
ed by Jacob Foster, brother of the !
murdered man. A dispatch from |
vicksburg says that if caught, Ed
wards certainly will be burned.
EXCITEMENT RUNS HIGH.
Shreveport, La, June 13-Up to !
o'clock the citizens of Kinnebrew made |
no attempt to put to death the impris-
oned negroes though excitement still |
runs high