The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1902-04-12
SHOT THREE MEN 70 DEATH
DEED OF DESPERATE NEGRO.
He was Resisting Arrest when Hs
Opened Fire with n Rine-He In
Turn Was RIddIed With BaIIrta
and His body Thrown IaaO a Fire
5000 People Engaged.

Birmingham, Ala April IA dis
patch from Tuscumbia, Ala, says:
Three men are dead, three more
slightly wounded md four seriously
wounded as the result Of Sheriff Cas-.
saway attempting to arrest Will Reyn.
olds. a desperate negro.
The dead are: Hugh Jones. shot
through the head: Bob Wallace, win
Reynolds.
Fatally wounded: Sheriff Charles
cassaway. shot through arm and alb
domen; Will cassaway. shot through
abdomen: P. A. Proul, shot through
stomach.
Seriously wounded: Payne.
shot through the. chest: Jim Finney,
shot through the right shoulder: Rob
EFT Patterson, shot through the leg;
Jesse Davis. shot through the jaw.
All the foregoing casualties except
the death Of Reynolds himself are the
result Of the deadly fire of Reynolds
with a 45-calibre Winchester. The
negro was in turn riddIed and thrown
into a fire.
Sunday morning at II O'Clock Sher-
in Cassaway went to a negro settle
ment. "Kardstown." to arrest Will
Reynolds for obtaining merchandise
under false pretenses. The officer was
net by the negro. who opened Ere
with Winchester wounding the sher-
III and Immediately fred upon the
deputy. VIII Cassaway. who was some
900 yards away. MORALLY woundinK
him
AS soon as possible. every man in
town who could procure q gun was In
I the neighborhood. but owing TO the
( location none dared 70 venture within
I the open space. Dynamite was pro-
cured and the house in which the
! negro was harricaded was fired upon
7 but TO no effect At o'clock. Captain
j Simpson OF the Wheeler rifles arrived
I with IL guns and 1000 cartridges
which were distributed among twelve
7 picked men The company was sta
toned around the house and riddled
Z IL. but the negro had taken refuge in
the cellar and returned the FIRE. killing
Jones and wounding Fgnney. Coal oil
was then procured. and after four
hours Of hard work. the houses ad-
Joining that in which the negro was
located were fred. About O'Clock
the house in which the negro was To-
Gated was fred by the Wheeler rifles,
who had arrived on the scene
The negro took refuge in a shed and
opened FIRE. killing Wallace and
wounding Davis. but the people and
some militiamen riddled the negro.
and the crowd. numbering 1000 people,
grabbed the body and threw IL into
the burning building. Wallace. whs
was killed was closing in on the ne
gro who shot him through the body
His body fell in the burning debris
but was recovered Davis. Wallace
and Falkner were the men who aired
the building.
Relic seekers cut on the negro'i
fingers and such parts OF the body a
= could be procured.
Three houses were burned in th'
|. effort TO reach the negro
Several horses were killed in the
! battle. Il is rumored that the sheriff
and his brother can not live. So dead
" was the negro's aim that II was pos
sibly an hour before the body OF Prou
! could be recovered. Not shot nret
by Reynolds failed to count Whei
those he was firing upon could b
: plainly seen by him. The excitemen
today was intense. but there is no fea
Of an uprising among the negroes Ful
: ly 5000 people from Florence and Shei
|. field were here and every surgeon II
the two towns was pressed int SCI
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