The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
NEGROES SHOOT TO Kill.
Battle Between White Officers and
Men Resisting Arrest in Sub
urb of Atlanta.
FouaWHI1EsAho 1HseE NEGROES DEAD
Rutldinr in Which the FuEitives
Take Refuge Ii Fired and Entire
Block of Buildings IL Burned-MI-
lttia Called Out to Aid In Capture
of Desperate Men.


Block of Buildings IL Burned-Ml-
litia Called Out to Aid In Capture
of Desperate Men.
Atlanta, Ga, May 19.-Four white
men and three negroes are DEAD anu
five white men wounded and an en-
tire block of buildings burned as the
result of a conflict here Saturday
morning between the police ana
blacks. Will Richardson, who is be-
lieyed 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 OIL
GERS of Fulton county and Atlanta.
DEAD-Ed. Battle. a bailir of Fulton
| county.
H. 6. ozburn, a policeman of Fulton
county.
| Thomas Grant, city policeman
Edward Crabtree, city policeman.
Will Richardson, the negro desperate
| met death. :.
Milton Risby, a negro who attempted
| to escape from a sewer:
Unknown negro killed in nearby yard
WOUNDED-W. Albright, a county pc
| iceman, struck in the left shoulder.
e. T. jackson. street car man, hit
| by bullet.
George Heard, county policeman.
| wounded in the arm.
Call Officer Spradlin, wounded in the
thigh.
Unknown negro Hickman, shot
| through the hand.
Wnere Flgnt TOOK Flace.
The fight between the officers and
the negroes occurred in Pitts|ourg, a
negro settlement directly south Of
the city limits on Mcdaniel street. It.
is thickly settled with small negro
houses. There are out-buildings AMI
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.
snerin Appeals for Ca1mness.
The shooting ended with the 500 or
more shots that were poured into the
body of Milton RISKY, negro who
sought freedom by way of large
sewer running through the neighbor.
hood. Then came the speech of
Sheriff helms, of Fulton county, adj
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. Kerlip was way
laid by five negroes with whom he had
had trouble while a member of the
force. But for the timely arrival of
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 Kerliu
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 fired 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.
negroes saved from MOB violence.
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
men into 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.
Objectionable Order Revoked.
Havana, May 19.-The order, issued
month ago. giving the judges of the
island life tenure, and making them
removable for cause only, was revoked
by Gen. Wood Saturday. The revoked
order aroused much adverse comment
of thu &irao Il