The age-herald., 1901-06-09
WHITE MAN SHOT
 BY NEGRO MINER Jake Pinkston Fatally Wounds West Bennett at lShk0oda SHERIFF BURGIN SENT FOR He Was Notified of Affray and Told There Was Riot-Made Trip
 On Special Train With
 Deputies.
SHERIFF BURGIN SENT FOR

| West Bennett, Q white miner. was fa- tally shot at Ishkooda ast night at 7:SO o'clock by Jake Pinkston, negro recent ly released from Coalburg prison. Immediately afterwards there was some excitement over the affray. and during this excitement Storekeeper Skinner wired Sheriff Burgin to come to the place with deputies at once.
 The message was received at the sher- frs office about o'clock last night. Up- on It's receipt Albert Stratford, chief depu- l ty, began summoning deputies to make the trip to the place in Q special coach. It was believed by the officers that a riot would be raging after the beginning of the trouble at the mines
 At 10:2O o'clock Sheriff Burgin and posse of fifteen men armed with Winches- ter rifles left the Eighteenth street cross ing on special Louisville and Nashville train of one coach and engine The run to Ishkooda was made as quick as poss- ble. But when the mining camp was reached everything was quiet, and a solemn stiffness pervaded the air
 With considerable calling and some diff ficulty, the posse finally located Dr. Howell, and the manager of the mining Company's property. They explained to the sheriff the details of the shooting, and stated there had been but little excite ment, and that the negro had fled from the camp after the occurrence.
 Sheriff Burgin, MT. Stafford and Depu- ties Cole, Carson, Kerr Jones, Ball, Gar her, Looney, Tomlin, Lachein and Harsh, and a representative of The Age Herald composing the party on the special, then returned to Birmingham. It was impossi- ble to make any search of the mountain In the dark, but deputies will be sent there this morning to make a thorough search of the camps
 Shooting About Dog.
 The shooting occurred at 7:15 o'clock last night in the front part of the mining commissary. The shot was fired from a 44-caliber revolver, the bullet entering the neck of the white man on the right side and almost penetrating the jugular vein | It passed through the neck, cutting small | CT blood vessels.
 The affray was the result of a quarrel about some one stepping on a dog the | from the pain caused by the stepping the negro charged Bennett with being the man who hurt it. he white man denied the story, and a quarrel ensued.
 Finally the negro reached for his pis- tol. As he did so Bennett tried to pull his knife and started for Pinkston. He knocked the negro backward and fell on him. Then the negro secured his pistol and fired. He immediately after ran from the pace.
 pr. J. T. Howell was called to dress the wound. and last night he stated the man was in a very desperate condition The handkerchief which was about Ben nett's neck at the time of the shooting was set afire by the powder and burned the flesh.
 Negro's Description. Jack Pinkston, the negro who commit ted the deed, is described as follows: Light ginger colored man, 2s years old, weighs 1S5, five feet and eleven inches in height, round face and head, large scar on top of head, long scar on left wrist, scar on left shin, small good, even teeth years No. 10 shoe, Is stopped and partial | ly paralyzed, was shot in heel and wound not quite healed up; drags his feet. The mans father and mother. Jake and Flora Pinkston, live at Memburn, Ala, He was recently returned from serving sen tence' at Coalburg.
 Bennett was from Kings Mountain, North Carolina, where his mother now resides. He had no family here.