Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-04-09
SHOT THREE MEN 10 DEATH
DEED OF DESPERATE NEGRO.
He Was Resisting Arrest When He
Opened Fire With q Rine-He in
Turn Was Riddled With Bullets
and His Body Thrown Into q Fire
5000 People Engaged.

Birmingham. Ala. April IA dis.
patch from Tuscumbia, Ala. says:
Three men are dead, three more
slightly wounded and 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, Will
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.
ert 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 riddled and thrown
| into fire.
Sunday morning at II o'clock Sher.
if Cassaway went to a negro settle
ment, "Kardstown," to arrest Will
| Reynolds for obtaining merchandise
under false pretenses. The officer was
met by the negro. who opened fire
with Winchester, wounding the sher
if and Immediately fired upon the
! deputy, Will Cassaway, who was some
300 yards away. MORALLY wounding
him.
| AS soon as possible, every man in
town who could procure gun was in
the neighborhood, but owing to the
location none dared to venture within
the open space. Dynamite was pro
cured and the house in which the
negro was barricaded was fired upor
but to no effect. At o'clock, Captain
Simpson of the Wheeler rifles arrived
with ~ guns and 1000 cartridge!
which were distributed among twelve
picked men. The company was sta
toned around the house and riddles
It, but the negro had taken refuge II
the cellar and returned the fire, killins
Jones and wounding Finney. Coal oil
was then procured, and after foul
hours of hard work, the houses ad
Joining that in which the negro was
located were fired. About O'Clock
the house in which the negro was 10
Gated was fred by the Wheeler rifles
who had arrived on the scene
The negro took refuge In shed ant
opened fire. killing Wallace ant
wounding Davis, but the people ant
some militiamen riddled the negro
and the crowd, numbering 1000 people
grabbed the body and threw it into
the burning building. Wallace, who
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 firet
the building.
Relic seekers cut off the negro's
fingers and such parts Of the body a.
could be procured.
Three houses were burned in the
effort to reach the negro.
Several horses were killed in the
battle. 1t Is rumored that the sheriff
and his brother can not live. So dead
ly was the negros aim that 1t was pos
sibly an hour before the body of Prou
could be recovered. Not shot fired
by Reynolds failed to count wher
those he was firing upon could be
plainly seen by him. The excitement
today was intense, but there is no feal
of an uprising among the negroes. Full
i To- u q
field were here and every surgeon In
the two towns was pressed into ser
vice.