The age-herald., 1902-04-07
Body Finally Ridd|ed With Bullets and Thrown Into
 Burning House HELD 1000 PERSONS AT BAY FOR OVER FOUR HOURS His Aim Was So Deadly No One Dar- ed Enter Space Surrounding Hut in Which the Negro Was
 earricaded.

T In an effort to avoid arrest for
 obtaining goods under false pre- lenses Will Reynolds. desperate negro, formerly of Birmine m, shot and Killed two white men, mortally wounded four, seriously injured two others, and held crowd of 1000 persons at bay for four hours today. Following is list of the dead and injured:
 The dead:
 Hugh Jones, shot through the head'
 Bob Wallace, shot through the body.
 The injured:
 Charles Gassaway, sheriff, shot through the abdomen and morta'ly wounded.
 Will oassa~ay, shot through the ab- domen, mortaily wounded.
 ?. A. Proutt, shot through stomach, fatal.
 Payne, shot through chest, serious.
 Jim Penney, shot through right shoulder, serious.
 Jesse Davis, shot through the Jaw, serious.
 Robert Patterson, shot through leg.
 After four hours maneuvering on the part of the sheriff's posse and detach- ment of soldiers, the house In which Reynolds was hiding was burned and the negro in attempting to escape was riddied with bullets and his body thrown into the flames. Curio fends, in mad desire to secure some trophy of the Sunday tragedy, rushed into the burning build ing and cut off the negro's fingers and other parts of his body.
 Ueed Winchester.
 The negros only weapon was 8-cali- bre Winchester rife. but so deadly ana constant was his fire that every man who entered the open space surrounding the hut in which he was barricaded was either killed or wounded. Prout, who was first to advance was felled by one of the negro's bullets and It was probably an hour before his body could be recovered
 The settlement in which the battle was fought Is known as Knardtown, and Sheriff Gassaway went there about Il oclck this morning to arrest Reynolds on a charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses The officer was met by the negro, who immediately opened fire, mortally wounding Mir Gassaway Will Gassaway, deputy. was waiting about 300 yards away and Reynolds turned the weapon on him. He was mortally wound ed.
 Within an hour every man in Tuscum- bia who could procure a gun was in the neighborhood, but none dared to enter the open space around the negro's cabin. Dynamite was procured and thrown at the hut but without effect. At o'clock Captain Simpson of the Wheeler Rifles, arrived with l2 guns and 1000 cartridges, which were distributed among twelve picketed men.
 Surrounded the House.
 The company was stationed around the house at considerable distance and 1t was riddled with bullets. The negro had taken refuge in a cellar. however, and returned the fire, killing Jones and wounding Fen ney. A large quantity of coal oil was then brought to the sheriffs headquar- ters and the house adjoining the one in which Reynolds was barricaded was set on fire
 At 8 o'clock Davis, Wallace and Falk- ner, three of the picked men. approached the Reynolds house with torch and 1t was soon in flames The negro took refuge In a shed and again opened hre killing Wallace, whose body fell in the flames, but was afterwards recovered By this time the negro had exposed him. | self and volley from the posse ana | the militia riddled his body with bullets | A crowd numbering at least 1000 persons made a rush for the body and threw IL | in the flames.
 Fully 2ooO persons from Sheffield and 1 Florence were here and every surgeon In the two towns was pressed into service. | Several horses were killed in the hght- Though thrcs of their houses were burned in the effort to reach Reynolds there is no danger of an uprising among the negroes.