The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-24
HULLS 0VERHAULED.
Much Wanted Whisky Boat Grew
Captured by Mississippi Sheriff.
Taken to jackson, Miss, to Escape Ar.
kansas Mob-Boat RiddIed With Bull
lets at Lake Providence.

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lets at Lake Providence.
vicksburg, Miss, Oct 19.-SheriR
Brennan and a strong posse, reinforced
by a gatling gun squad from the War
ren Light Artillery, at o'clock to-
night captured the Hull family, con.
sisting of father, w. G. Hull; son, r.
w. Hull, and daughter, Mrs. Allie
Vaughan, wanted in Arkansas, for
shooting the sheriff and several depu-
ties at Sterling Saturday afternoon
The Hulls surrendered without firing
a shot and are now in the county jail.
Sheriff Brennan and posse, after
| guarding the river banks ali night, re-
ceived word at noon today that the
Hulls had entered Yazoo river. AS
| quickly as possible the tug Joe Seay
was prepared for the pursuit, with the
! Gatling gun as a forward battery.
| Two miles up the YaZoo the Hulls'
trading boat, the Hazel, was found
tied to the bank. When the Vicksburg
tug approached the woman hailed and
stated that if Vicksburg officers were
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men, who had taken to the woods,
would surrender. This was done and
! soon the Hulls. father and son, put of
from the east bank in a skiff. The
men were prepared for flight or fight,
each being armed with a Winchester
rife and revolver and rations enough
! to last a week. 9,
Alleged Unprovoked Attack.
They talked freely of the trouble at
Sterling, both telling the same story,
which was to the effect that the attack
on them was entirely unproyoked.
! Said the elder Hull: Saturday after
noon We were anchored in the stream
| a hundred yards from the Arkansas
shore, when suddenly a gang of men,,
white and black, appeared on the levee
and without a word opened fire. My
! son and a negro boy were sitting in
| The bow and tumbled back into the
cockpit just in the nick of time. My
| son got bullet in the arm. Not think
| ing for a moment that there could be
! officers in the crowd, 1 seized my rifle
| and opened fire on the attackers. II
l hit anyone l don't know it, but L
| hope to God that I did. 1 did only
what any man would have done when
| his own life and that of his children
we're in jeopardy.
| Pisthouse RiddIed.
| "As quickly as 1t could be done we
tripped our anchor and dropped down
| stream. passing Lake Providence this
morning A crowd of men with Win
| chesters and Mausers opened fire, rid
| ding the pilot-house. 1 intended all
along to come to Vicksburg and sur
render. but if that Arkansas crowd
| had caught us We had determined to
| fight to the last"
! HulPs boat, the Hazel, is shot full OF
holes. the glass doors of the main
cabin being almost completely de-
| stroved. Nine bullets penetrated the
pilot house and seventeen pierced the
main cabins, passing clean through,
while the contents OF the cabin and
pilot house are shattered. Morris Ar
mold, a colored boy claiming Memphis
as his home, was aboard the pirate"
craft as a cook, and he corroborated
HulTs story in every particular. Inc
woman, Mrs. Allie Vaughan, also told
| practically the same story.
Deputy's Statement.
/ Deputy Sheriff E. L. Rankin, of Chi
| cot county. Ark, reached here by the
| evening train from the north, having,
telephoned the first official message
here earlier in the day. Mr.. Rankin
states that there were only nine men
! in the party who attempted to arrest
the Hulls for selling liquor without
license. They had feen lying to the
bank, and getting wind of the war
rants out for them had dropped out
about fifty yards from the shore.
Sheriff Strong called to them to sub
nit to arrest, instead Of which they
covered themselves and opened hre,
seriously wounding Sheriff Strong,
who received a bullet in the mouth,
and Deputy Wallace, and slightly,
wounding two others. Rankin states
that there is a large party now a1oat
! in search OF the men, and mob action
would have followed had they been
successful.
Taken to Jackson.
They were taken to Jackson, Miss,
tonight to avoid mob of Arkansas
PEOPLE, who are expected to arrive here
at any moment.
Mexican Combination.
Laredo, Tex, Oct. ia Monterey,
Mexico. special says: Sperry, Jones
& Co., bankers of Baltimore, Nd. have
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Railway lines here and also have