Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-05-17
BLOODY RIOT
IN ATLANTA
Negroes Pursued by the Police Darricadsd a
House and Killed Five and Wounded
Five Men
NEGRO HOMES SET ON FIRE
Two negroes Who Escaped Were Rlddlsd win Bullets
and KILLED, While a Third Negro Was Burned to
Ashes In tho FIames-Two Coured Men Ar
rested Narrowly Escaped Lynchlng.

Atlanta, Ca, May 17.-Four white
men and three negroes dead, five white
men and one negro wounded, and an
entire block of buildings burned, is the
result of conflict that began here ear
ly today between the police and the
blacks.
The dead are: Edward Batele, bailiff
of Fulton county; HI. G. Osborne, po-
liceman of Fulton county; Thomas
Grant, city polieemanfh Edward Crab
tree, city policeman; Will Richardson,
negro desperado. who killed these
men; Milton Rosby, negro who at
tempted to escape from a sewer; and an
unknown negro, In nearby yard.
The wounded are: s. A. Kerlin, beat
en- by the negroes; w. A. Wright, coun-
ty policeman, wounded In left should
er; w. T. jackson, street car conductor,
wounded in the hip; Owen Heard, coun-
ty policeman, wounded in the thigh;
Call Officer Spradlin, wounded in the
arm; and an unknown negro, shot in
the hand.
DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR.
Atlanta, Ca, May 17-Yesterday af-
ternoon former Policeman s. A. Kerlin
was waylaid by five negroes with whom
he had trouble while member Of the
force. The assailants were frightened
away, or Kerlin would have been killed.
A sergeant, stationed at Fort McPher-
son, found Kerlin unconscious.
At midnight County Policeman Col
den heard that Kerlin's five assailants
were located in house on Mcdaniel
street, and hastened to the city and
secured warrant for their arrest.
Golden was Joined by Officers Dunbar
and Cheshire, and, accompanied by
ing Owen Heard, the party started for
the hidingplace of the negroes, arriv-
ing at 1880 o'clock in the morning.
AS the officers approached the house.
the inmates opened fire, and Heard fell
to the ground. He was borne out Of
range by his companions. The house
was al once surrounded by the posse,
and daylight was awaited for another
attack. The house in which one of the
negroes. named Richardson, was Iocat-
ed, belonged to Annie Wilburn, also
colored. Richardson owned a store In
the adjoining house. Here he kept am
munition and guns, and was therefore
well prepared to fight.
At six o'clock in the morning the lit
tie group of officers approached the
place and called upon those within to
surrender. In reply, they received a
volley Of shots, one Of which killed
County officer Batele. The attacking
party retreated some distance, and
from behind trees, telegraph and troll
lev poles commenced firing into the
store. In a few minutes the door of
the house was thrown open, and VIII
King, negro, ran out and surrendered.
Inside the house Richardson had an
unobstructed view in three directions.
One block away, Policeman Tom Grant,
who was among those summoned to the
scene, stepped from shelter to fire into
the house. A shot rang out from the
besieged house and Grant fell dead.
The attacking party hastily sent word
to police headquarters, and Chief Of
Police Ball dispatched the reserves to
the scene. The officers determined to
make use Of King, the negro who SUE
rendered, and, at the point of a Win
chester, they forced him to walk up to
the rear of the house and fire it. As
soon as the flames were discovered the
officers, eager to get the inmates Of the
house, stepped out Of their shelter In
every direction. Again there was a
shot from the house, and this time Of
ficer Edward Chabtree met death.
An instant later there was third
shot, and County Policeman Robert Os-
borne fell dead.
The shooting had by this time at
tracted hundreds Of people, and nearly
every man who came to the scene car
ried a rife The shooting into the
house became general. citizens and off,
GERS firing together.
Governor Gambler, advised by tele-
phone, hastily ordered out the militia.
Captain Barker, Of the fifth regiment,
was ordered to proceed with fifty men
and platoon gun to the scene of the
shooting to cooperate with the city
authorities and the sheriff Of Fulton
county CHIEF Of Police Ball and Sher-
If Nelms also hurried to the scene.
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