The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-04-10
DEED OF DESPERATE NEGRO.
He Was Resisting Arrest when He
Opened Fire With u RiAe-He In
Turn Was Riddled With Bullets
and His body ThrOwn Into = Fire
5000 People Engaged.

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, desperate negro.
The dead are: Hugh Jones, shot
through the head; Bob Wallace. VIII
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 45-calibre Winchester. The
negro was in turn riddled and thrown
into fire.
Sunday morning at II o'clock Sher-
in Cassaway went to 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-
III and Immediately fred 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 a 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 upon
but to no effect. At o'clock, Captain
Simpson of the Wheeler rifles arrived
with IL guns and 1000 cartridges
which were distributed among twelve
picked men. The company was sta
toned around the house and riddled
1t, but the negro had taken refuge In
the cellar and returned the Are. killing
Jones and wounding Finney. Coal oil
was then procured. and after four
hours of hard work. the houses ad-
joining that in which the negro was
| iOCatcu were uTcu. Auout - SioSN
the house in which the negro was 10
Gated was fired 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 1t into
the burning building. Wallace. WIZ
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 fred
the building.
Relic seekers cut of the negro's
fingers and such parts of the body Al
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 negro's 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 b.
plainly seen by him. The excitement
today was intense. but there Is no fea1
OF an uprising among the negroes. Full
ly 5000 people from Florence and Shelf
field were here and every surgeon II
the two towns was pressed into ser
vice.