The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-13
NEGROES DOOMED
Thirteen Of Them Are Sched-
uled For Lynching
Though Women Nay Escape
With a Whipping.
FOR KILLING FOSTER.
The Entire Party Is in the
Hands of a Mob
Except Prince Edwards Who
Fired Fatal Shot.
Posse with BlOodhOunds in
Pursuit of Him.
FOR KILLING FOSTER

New Orleans, June ia telegram
from Shreveport says:
1T looks ike there will be a whole
sale lynching before noon of all the
prisoners in Kinnebrew's store in Bos-
sier parish who were implicated in the
murder of John Gray Foster. Several
negroes were taken forcibly from the
Bossier city jail. Thirteen negroes are
scheduled for lynchIng, though it may
be decided simply to whip the women
Shreveport, La, June 13.-Latest re-
ports from the Foster plantation, where
John G. Foster was murdered yester-
day, say that a dozen or more frighten-
ed negroes are still covering in the
Kinnebrew store surrounded by an
armed mob which threatens every mo-
ment to lynch the whole party. Prince
Edwards. the colored man who fired the
fatal shot, however, has not yet been
apprehended and it is the desire to get
him that has restrained the mob thus
far
The negroes imprisoned in the store
are da.zed with fear. They are Official
ly'' in the hands Of the authorities, but
they realize that their real captors are
the members of the mob which has
guarded every avenue Of escape since
yesterday Foster was a young man.,
we'll known, a brother-in-1aw of Gov
ernor AIcAfillin of Tennessee and came
of one Of the first families Of Louisiana.
A lynching is regarded as highly prOba-
BILE
When the negroes were placed in the
store at o'clock last night, a crowd
assembled and it was only through the
advice Of cooler heads that a wholesale
lynching was prevented.
Mrs. Edwards. wife of the alleged
murderer was among those arrested.
She had in her possession 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, but
his capture has not yet been reported.
BY some 1t is thought the fugitive to
escape lynching has committed suicide
in some Isolated spot
The Foster plantation is five miles
east Of this city on the Vicksburg,
Shreveport & Pacific railway Trouble
has been brewing for sometime between
the negroes and the overseers of the
place. Foster. thinking he could sue
ceed where the overseers had failed
started for the negro quarters, during
the afternoon yesterday The negroes
were gathered In cabin and he was
some distance away when the shot
which killed him was fred The ne
groes scattered but all except Edwards
were captured
ARMED MEN EVERYWHERE
Shreveport, June 13.-Up to 10 o'clock
today no news has reached the city of
the probable lynching of the dozen or
more negroes cOrrallled in Kinnebrew's 5
store, who are charged with completely
An the brutal murder Of John Gray
Foster There seemed to be little doubt
however that summary vengeance will
be meted to some. II not to all Of
them. Throughout the night and far in
to the forenoon the approaches to
Men armed with Winchesters, pistols
and shotgunS, afoOt and on horseback
were stationed everywhere. 1t was a
night CT terror and brought fOrcibly to
mind the days of reconstruction when
Shreveport was the head center of the
white league movement
Despite the great tension not a single
shot was fired during the night by those
who guarded the place in which the
frightened negroes are imprisoned.
Eariy this morning the Shreveport posse
OF sixty men withdrew to this side of the
river 70 escape the death scenes which
capt h F. Wells, in command said
were inevitable There is absolutely
no doubt" said Capt. Wells, that they
orally considered to have been at the
potion OF the conspiracy that resulted
IN the murder OF Foster
At dawn message from Kfnne-
brews said that the armed citizens
guarding the negroes, had concluded to
make another effort to capture Prince
Edwards the murderer before DEALING
with his alleged accomplices There
We're ten negroes confined in the iafI at
6oss-er City and IL was decided to take
them to kinnebrew's store in order
that the entire negro crowd might he
under roof Two posses were sent out
Dy the citizens. One went in search of
edwards. who was reported to be hid
Ing on an adjoining plantation The
orner marched to Bossier City and Sc
cured the negroes in Jail at that nlaca
No resistance was offered the rnoh ana
the frightened negroes, men and yvo-
men, were marched to Kinnebrey,-'s ana
placed with Smith and his fellow pris
oners.
At o'clock it seemed to be the de-
termination Of the citizens to lynch
smith and another negro named Wash
lngton. who helped Edwards to escaDs
ana afterward denied that he had done
60 II was also planned to lynch tha
"lhe q Edwards, the murderer ana Ad-
lee A4iens but a great many opposad
TINS ana urged the stripping and whfr-
ping Of Lne women. 1t is not unlikely
IN the general roundup, not a SINGLE
life VIII be spared
II was reported in Shreveport at 1O-2o
tnar Edwards. the negro murderer. had
oeen surrounded in the swamps near
5elcner Dy a posse headed by Jacob
@osterl brother Of the murdered man.