The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04
Three Negroes Attempted to
Enter Mckinney & Kinds
WOUNDED MAN WILL RECOVER
w. c.. Scott Held Up and Robbed Last
Nieht--A Series of BurgIaries
Friday Night and Satur.
day Morning.

| g1aries, in one of which white man was
shot by a negro, is the sum total of the
| carnival of crime in Birmingham dur
ing the past forty-eight hours.
About midnight last night a negro man
In a gang of three negroes, shot J. D.
Kinds In the back Of the neck with
load of mixed shot in the store Of Nc
Kinney & Kinds, at the corner Of Ave-
nue. and Thirteenth street. Kinds
grabbed repeating rife and shot several
times at the negroes, put missed them.
Kinds and a negro who works In the
store were sitting around a stove about
twenty-five feet from the front door
when three negroes stepped in the front
door and ordered the two men to hold up
their hands, each having gun.
Jumped for His Rife.
| Kinds jumped for his rifle, which was
a few feet away behind a screen, and as
he did so one of the negroes fired one
barrel of his gun. About twelve shot en-
tered the back of Kinds head and neck
and the rest about 100, tore the bottom
out of a tin pan which was hanging on
the wall in the rear of the store. Kinds
grabbed his rifle and fired several times
through the screen at the negroes, but it
is not believed that the negroes were hit
by any of the bullets.
| While one of the negroes was shooting
at Kinds, a second had the negro who
was with Kinds covered with gun, and
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the shot was fired all three of the negroes
ran out of the store and disappeared.
| The tallest of the three negroes Is said
| to be of light complexion and the other
| two are said to be low and black. Police
men Brown and Walker answered call
and secured a description of the negroes.
DIR. Elwyn Ballard was telephoned ana
waited on the wounded man. He says the
wounds are not fatal unless complications
set in.
Scott Held Up.
About 1890 o'clock w. C. Scott. who
| lives at 1907 Eleventh avenue, south, and
is bookkeeper for b. F. Roden g. Co, was
| held up by five negroes on Eleventh. ave-
| nue. between Eighteenth and Nineteenth
| streets and was robbed of $6.25. He re-
| ported the matter to the police. He states
| that one of the negroes walked diagonally
across the street and just as he reached
him threw a Winchester rifle In his face
| and ordered him to throw up his hands.
The four other negroes can up from be-
| hind and proceeded to search him. The
| first negro stood off to one side and kept
| him covered with the rifle.
While he was being searched, Mr. Scott
| turned around to look at the negroes so
| that he might Identify them in the future,
when one of them ordered him to turn
around and not to look back, or he would
| get his head blown off.
1t was reported to the police last night
that the residence at 500 Twenty-third
street was broken open and burgarized
last night, the burglar obtaining an SIS
| overcoat, an s. coat and a clock valued
at IS.
| The residence Of d. M. Drennen, near
Five Points. was broken into and rob-
bed yesterday morning early. the bur-
| glar getting a suit of clothing, a purse
containing a small amount of money and
several annual railroad passes. The bur-
glar climbed the posts of the front
porch and entered through a window in
the second story.
Other Attempts.
| About o'clock yesterday morning Po-
| liceman Stokes discovered a burglar try
| ing to enter the rear door of Jacobs
pharmacy on Third alley and Nineteenth
| street Tho policeman fired at the bur-
| glar several times and chased him to
the corner of Seventh avenue and Six
teenth street. shooting several times. He
states 1t was white man.
| Mr.. Holt, clerk of a meat stoor at Six
tenth street and Eighth avenue report
ed to the police yesterday morning that
he was awakened by a negro trying to
open the front door. He said he did not
have a pistol, so tried to catch the ne
gro's hand and hold him, but was unable
to do so.
Robert Carter, a negro who was for
merly waiter in the Metropolitan no.
tel, was arrested yesterday morning and
in his pockets the police found several
| silver knives and forks with the Metro
politan monogram on them. He was taken
to e. Lesser the proprietor Of the hotel
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| OF silver.
A report was made to the police yes
terday morning that on the night before
| three negroes held up j. B. Messer at
ms store in Avondale and got about SIS
in cash. The negroes asked to be shown
some handkerchiefs and when Mr.. Mes
ser turned to get them the negroes COW
cred him with two shotguns and a pistol
ordering him to throw up his hands.
They then took all the cash he had and
left the store.
Two white boys secured rooms at the
residence of Mrs. r. Hanna, 22O4 Fifth
avenue, and after the people had re-
tired they slipped out and stole two pis-
tolls and a dress suit case. The young
mems names are not known, but they
are described as being nicely dressed and
evidently nice boys.
Confederates Called to Meet.
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