The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-18

tner tfOuDie. All harmless negroes dHt their homes will be protected at what part of anybody, white or black, will bs met with whatever force may be neces' sary Co preserve order"
 The light between the officers and the negroes occurred in Pittsburg, a negro settlement directly south of the city limits, on McDaniel Street. It is thickly settled with small negro houses. There are outbuildings and Barns and shrub bery over the entire neighborhood, which provided such shelter that it was pos sible to escape from house to house and dodge between fences without being de tected. As soon as information of the fight between the negro and officers reached the city, wagon loads of police. men with Winchesters were hurried tc the scene of action and Governor Chandler ordered out detachment of the State militia.
 The Sheriff's Speech.
 The shooting ended with the 800 and more shots that were poured into the body of Milton Risby, a negro, who sought freedom by way of a large sewei running through the neighborhood. Ther came the speech of Sheriff Nelms of Full ton County, advising calmness on tho uart of the crowd, and the efforts of tht officers thereafter dixected toward con trolling the temper of the white men whC were walking the streets of the suburt with guns upon their shoulders ana pistols in their hands.
 Yesterday afternoon while returning to his home on the McPherson roat former Policeman s. A. Kertin. was way laid by i've negroes with whom he hat had trouble while member of the force D..A f<.x. IL H.. .~lr- which frightened his assailants away Kertin would have been killed. A ser geant stationed at Fort McPherson, wh, heard his cries for help. ran to the plac and found Kertin unconscious. At midnight County Policeman Colder heard that Kertins five assaifants wer located in house on McDaniel Stree and hastened to the city and secured warrant for the arrest from Justice Orr First Man Killed.
 Policeman Golden was joined by Officer Dunbar and Cheshire and accompanfe, by number of Kertin's neighbors in cluding Owen Heard,the party started fo the hiding place of the five negroes. Tn house was dark and showed no signs o life, but as the officers approached thu inmates opened fire and Owen Heard fel to the ground. He was borne out O range by his companions. This was a 1.30 this morning.
 The house was at once surrounded by the posse and daylight was awaited before making another advance. They did no think 1t necessary to call upon the city authorities for aid and determined tt make the arrests unaided
 The house in which the negro Richard son was located belonged to Anna Will burn, also colored. Richardson, who is believed to have been half Indian, owned the stoke adjoining the house. In his store he kept ammunition and guns and was therefore well prepared for fight.
 Officer Battle Killed.
 At o'clock this morning the little group of officers who had been watching the house all night. approached the place and called upon those within to surren- der. To their consternation they were replied to with a volley of shots, one of which killed County Officer Battle. The attacking party backed off some distance and from behind trees. telegraph and trolley poles commenced firing into the store. In a few minutes the door of the house was thrown open and Will King. negro, ran out and gave himself up to the officers Inside the house Richard son had an unobstructed view in three directions
 One block away Policeman Tom Grant of the Atlanta force, who was among those summoned to the scene. stepped from his shelter to fire into the house. A shot rang out from the beseiged house and Grant fell to the ground dead.
 The attacking police hastily sent word to police headquarters and Chief of Police Ball dispatched the reserves to the scene in several patrol wagons
 The officers to whom KinH had given himself up determined to make use of the negro. and at the point os Winchester they forced him ta walk up to the rear of the house and fire 1t. As soon as the flames were discovered, the officers, eager to get the inmates of the house. stepped out from their shelter in every direction.
 Two More Killed.
 Again there was a shot from the house and this time 1t was Officer Edward Crab tree who met death An instant later there was a third shot and County Police man Robert Ozburn fell dead.
 The shooting had by this time attract ed hundreds of people and nearly every man who came to the scene carried a rife. The shooting into the house be- came general citizens and officers firing together.
 Governor Candler advised by telephone of the rioting hastily ordered out the militia. Captain W. W. Barker, of the hth regiment. was ordered to proceed with fifty men and a platoop~gun to the scene of the shooting and cooperate with the city authorities and the sheriff of Fulton County. , Chief of Police Ball hurried to the scene on horseback and was joined a few minutes later by Sheriff J. w. Nelms.
 The desperado Richardson. had been lost sight of The house burned rapidly and a number of inmates were seen to run from the store to woodshed and to a harm in the next lot. Orders were quickly given to fire every building into which the negroes had been seen to enter and in few minutes several buildings were burning.
 Car Conductor Shot.
 w. T. Jackson, d street car conductor in uniform, was one of those who hurried to the scene when he heard the shooting. As he was nearing the house he was shot in the right hip, presumably by 
 A negro cabman. driving a spectator to the vicinity of the rioting, was hit in the hand by a bullet
 Call Oficer Spradlin. speeding to the scene on his bicycle. received a bullet wound in the arm
 A main sewer which runs through this part of the city was utilized by two of the negroes as a possible means of
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