The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-26

held the negroes.
Some one ran out on the platfc.u v1fn
a pistol and covered the negroes arI wc
pulled them back Oh the platform. ,ac.c
was 4 second man There w.th r pis.ol
also who dited. The s,aal nan vas Mr
Stcrnheimer. Parties took the Younger
Cole and I held the older While Stern
heimer cot 4 pistol from his pants
pocket. Il was the left hand pocket I
think. He also got a box OF car
tridgcs OUT OF his hip pocket - well As
a half open knife out q q side pocket
we took the negroes IN the coach. cut
the bell cord and ted their arms behind
them. tying their feet 10 the SIDES OF he
seat The older negro fought vigorously
and tried to get out OF the window. An
elderly gentleman II the coach tCaQt. J..
p. Leach hit him several times with ;
stick. and he vas pulled back from the
window.
The younger negroes were also tied
and kept quiet. When PUT or at Hen
dcrson the older negro fell AMI the crowd
closed in on him. lie was struck end ii :
officers had trouble to maintain order.
There We're many men there With guns.
The negroes were surrounded by d.pu-
ties and taken TO Jail. Later they We're
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Mr.. Isaac ~Stcrnhoimcr. a travelling
man from Richmond. who secured the
pistol from Cole. Sr., says:
W. had left Norlina about fifteen
minutes and il was after > o'clock Some
young man ran in the coach crying cut.
Stop the train, negroes are numbering a
man in the front coach. l jumped with
the others and ran to the platform. I
found Mr.. Turner and Mr.. II l.. Nor
man, of Halifax. holding two negroes on
the steps. while these were ~strugEIiuc to
get off. The train was going forty miles
an hour. Mr. Turner was calling for a
gun. l ran back in the coach and got 4
pistol from an elderly gentleman (Capt.
j. p. Leach, ran back ond held the ne
grocs up. | told them to throw up their
hands. Turner ard Norman pulled them
up the steps. | took a pistol and 4 box
of cartridges out OF the big Negroes CCole.
SRI, pocket. Think it was his left hand
pocket. There was great excitement
when we dragged the negroes in TIL"
coach. The older one Tough savagely
and tried to jump out of tic window.
We caught him. and cutting the bell
cord tied the men. There were cries Of
kill him. lynch him on the train. The
negroes We're turned over to the Off
GERS IN henderson,.
TWO NEW ARRESTS MADE.
Neither Mr.. Turner nor Mr.. Stern
heimer saw any negroes jump from The
train. 1t is reported here that other par
ties saw one get off on the lett side,
another on the right side Of the train. 1t
is said that these two joined and a later
report is from q man who says he saw
them under a tree in a field nearby cat
ing a watermelon, and that both had is
tolls.
The three negroes captured, for John
Jones, alias Charley Ferguson, did lot
resist arrest in the train, We're taken be-
fore Mayor Switzerland and be COM
mitted them to Jail until Monday, when
they Will have a preliminary hearing.
He say that Cole, Sr., was evidently
tWo-thirds trunk, and was impudcnt ard
excited. All the men Were under the
influence of whiSkey,' he said. :" he
older Cole declared that he didn't know
anyone had been killed, and that he had
done nothing"
Information received here is that Mr.
A.. p. Crumpton, of Lcuisburg, vho was
bringing the negroes from ~Lyrchburg to
Iouisburg to work in tobacco lad reached
Louisburg with thirteen men. having
SjdIl6d IL l. L ~ t'A ~
men in Jail here all are accounted for,
and it is probable that if two mon got
off the train they got back on. A war
| rant for the arrest of Will Mitchell AMI
Jim Payne has been sent to LouiSburS
| and they will be brought here tonight.
The Seaboard Air Line authorities Of
| fered q reward for the capture of the ne
groes who escaped, and ~teleptaph ard
phone messages were sent out 20 arrest
any negroes who boarded a train.
1t was one o'clock last night before
| the crowd of fifty or more men with tho
bloodhounds gave UP an unsuccessful
search for the negroes reported to nave
| jumped from the train.
From all these circumstances one fact
is certain, Joe Cole, ST., IS the murder
| or of Roadmaster Stievers, and If he had
| two pistols. also shot the negro porter.
one theory advanced is that he throw
away one pistol as he ran out on the
| platform. If Cole had but one pistol IT
| will depend upon the testimony of cap
tain Clements and Joe Mitchell as 20
which Negro fired the second shot.
THE NEGRO PRISONERS TALK.
Early this morning a visit was made
| TO the county jail, where the three cap
tured negroes are cOnflncd. 1t Is d nolld
brick building, on the edge OF the town.
! Once within the enclosure two doors had
to be opened before the steel cells were
reached in which were tho prisoners.
A conversation was had first with the
two younger negroes, confined IN the
lower tier. These are Joe Cole, the son
! of Joe Cole who shot Mr.. Stcvers. and
| John Jones. alias Charles Ferguson.
! The younger Cole simply declared he
knew nothing about the affair and that
| when he had been told TO 20 to the
colored coach he had gone and sat down.
He acknowledged hearing the shots, out
said he saw no one shoot.
The second negro. who gave his name
as John Jones, said that he had follow
cd young Cole into the cOlored coach, and
that with them We're Willie Mitchell, Joe
! Cole. Sr.. Willie Dabney and Henry Gar
rett. He said that he saw the elder Cole
put his pistol to Mr.. Stevers' head and
! shoot. AS to whom had shot Joe Mitchell,
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