The age-herald., 1901-05-10
Great Excitement Was Created by the Pursurers Shooting
THE CITY IS CLOSELY WATCHED
Armed and Determined Men Parade Streets and Aliies-SprlngvIlieC Cit lzens Increase Reward to S24o.
 Lynchlne Feared If Caught.

Jim Brown the negro who Is charged with having cr1minally assaulted Miss Dell Garrett near springvine Tuesday afternoon, is still at large, although the entire country is filled with armed men hunting for him.
 Considerable excitement was created by a party of citizens near lrondale seeing 8 negro man answering the description Of Brown. The negro was walking near the tracks of a railroad at Irondale when first seen. He was immediately recog- nized by railroad employe. Seeing this ract the negro turned and ran from the place He was followed and several shots nred at him.
 The party could not stop him by shoot ing so calls for helpwere given. In short time a large crowd was in pursuit of the criminal, who had succeeded in get ting out of sight As the hunters ran in tho direction the fleeing negro had taken. large numbers of armed citizens joined the chasers.
 Woods Carefully Searched.
 Within an exceedingly short time a mob of infuriated. determined heavily armed citizens of the Jrondale community was in pursuit of the criminal. Woods were as carefully searched ss found pocket books are; houses were gone through equally as closely, hut nowhere could the brute be found. He had simply escaped He had slipped from sight as quickly and almost ss
 Asiiy as. coins are mado to disappear Wiegerderuains. The searchers searched. &t all to no avail They are still search fg and many a member of the hunting kang was heard 10 pray for another sight Of the bruifish scoundrel All, the fore part Of last night was spent by crowds slowly passing through woods and about houses fin the Irondale community At an early hour this morn- ing the searchers were still pushing and scrambiing for night of the negro.
 City Is Searched. During the afternoon of yesterday crowds of armed men walked the streets of Birmingham. Winchester rifles were carelessly carried In the hand. shotguns loaded with buckshot were thrown across shoulders. Pistols of the large and dam gerous type were slipped in pockets within easy reach. And the search was carried on.
 Determined men passed corners nar- rowiy examining each negro met, and armed hunters disdainfully smiled In a tragicaily-earnest way when some strang- CT asked what for.
 But all the work did not find the negro who Is so badly wanted; all the careful searching failed to locate and bring to light Jim Brown.
 Reward Increased.
 A telephone message was received by the Age-Herald this morning at o'clock from Sprfngville stating that the negro had not been caught by any or the spring vine hunters. It stated. however that the hunting was still being carried forward with tho same persistence that character fzed the pursuers' first efforts.
 The reward of s125 offered by the citi- xens of springyille has been increased to s24o. A telephone message from H. I. .crHndall was received this morning giv- ing the Age-Herald authority to make this reward announcement.
 In case Jim Brown Is arrested and Is identified 1t Is probable that lynching will take place, although the court au- thorities will do everything possible to prevent 1t.