New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-05-21
NEGROES SHOOT TO Kill.
Bkttle Between White Officers and
Men Resisting Arrest in Sub
B urb Of Atlanta.
FOUR WHITES AND THREE NEGROES DEAD
Building I'm Which the FuEitives
Take Refuge Is Fired and Entire
Block of Buildings Is Burned-Mi-
litia Called Out to Aid In Capture
of Desperate Men.

BlOck OF buildings Is Burne0-N1l.
| litia Called Out to Aid In Capture
of Desperate Men.
Atlanta, Ga, May 19.---Fonr white
! men and three negroes are dead and
live white men wounded and an en-
tire block Of buildings burned as the
result of conflict here Saturday
morning between the police and
| blacks. Will Richardson, who is be-
| lieved to have been half Indian and
half negro, the owner of store on
Mcdaniel street in the suburb Of
Pittsburg, brought on the trouble by
| resisting arrest and defying the Off
GERS Of Fulton county and Atlanta.
| DEAD-Ed. Battle, a bailiff of Fulton
county. -. .-s'.. .sa-a
| H. G. Ozburn a policeman of Fulton
county. -
Thomas Grant, city policeman. =
Edward Crabtree, city policeman.
Will Richardson, the negro desperate
| who killed these men and who afterward
met death. .~.~s
+ Milton Risby, a negro who attempted
to escape from sewer.
Unknown negro killed in nearby yard
WOUNDED-W. Albright, a county po-
liceman, struck in the left shoulder.
by bullet. 49,.
George Heard, a county policeman,
wounded in the arm.
Call Officer Spradlin, wounded in the
thigh.
Unknown negro Hackman, shot
through the hand.
where right TOOK FIace.
The fight between the officers and
the negroes occurred in Pittsburg, a
negro settlement directly south of
the city limits on Mcdaniel street. It
is thickly settled with small negro
houses. There are out-buildings and
barns and shrubbery over the entire
neighborhood which provided such
shelter that it was possible to es-
cape from house to house and dodge
between fences without being detect
ed. AS soon as information of the
fight between the negro and Off
GERS reached the city, wagon loads
of policemen with Winchesters were
hurried to the scene of action and
Gov. Gambler ordered out detach-
ment of the state militia
sner1n Appeals for CaImness.
The shooting ended with the 500 or
more shots that were poured into the
body of Milton Risby, a negro who
sought freedom by way of large
sewer running through the neighbour
hood. Then came the speech of
Sheriff helms, of Fulton county, ad-
vising calmness on the part of the
crowd and the efforts of the officers
thereafter were directed towards
controlling the temper of the white
men, who were walking the streets
Of the suburb with guns upon their
shoulders and pistols in their hands.
Cause, of Trouble.
Friday afternoon, while returning to
his home on the Mcpherson road, for
| mer policeman S. A. Kerlin was way-
laid by five negroes with whom he had
had trouble while member of the
force. But for the timely arrival of a
trolley car, which frightened his as
sailants away, Kerlin would have been
killed. A sergeant stationed at Fort
Mcpherson, who heard his cries for
help, ran to the place and found Kerlin
unconscious.
At midnight County Policeman Gold
en- heard that Kerlin's five assailants
were located in house on Mcdaniel
street, and FASTENED to the city and Sc
cured warrant for their arrest from
Justice Orr. In the battle which fol-
| lowed the attempt at daylight to ar
rest the negroes, the above-named of
ficers and three negroes were killed.
The building where the negroes had
taken refuge was fred and it spread
rapidly and soon the entire block of
buildings, composed of nearly all negro
houses, was destroyed. The police
| were busy arresting the few negroes
found in the vicinity. Two of them,
Steve Nisbet and Jim Singleton, be-
lieved to be members of Richardson's
| gang, were arrested. ..r~ r.
| negroes saved from Mob vIo1ence.
/ The police had great difficulty in get
ing out of the crowd of enraged peo-
| pie with the colored men. A mob of
1000 surged around the patrol wagon
and cried for the life Of the men under
arrest. The officers, throwing their
meninto the bottom of the wagon drew
their revolvers and giving the drivers
orders to drive as fast as possible,
forced their way through the crowd
and 20 minutes later lodged their pris-
oners in safety in the Fulton county
| Jail on Butler street. &5gfsa$. y
/ ObjectiOnab1e@ Order Revoked.
Havana, May 19.--The order, issued
q month ago, giving the judges Of The
island life tenure, and making them
i removable for cause ONLY was revoke