The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-29
HARVEY DIED IN JAIL
NEGRO DESPERATE, MORTALITY
WOUNDED, ENDED LIFE IN PRISON.
SHOT BY OFFICER MILLER.
HAD BADLY BEATEN THREE MEN
BEFORE HE WAS ARRESTED.

Notorious and vicious Negro Laid
out PatrOlmen Nose Davis and
Hartley, and SeabOard Air Line
Engineer GOOIsby, Before He Was
Located and Shot in Stable In
Liberty Lane Two Weeks Ago.
shot Twice by Miller and Beaten
hy Officers and Citizens.
After suffering two weeks from pis-
toll shot wounds inflicted by Patrol
man Harmon Miller, whom he attempt
ed to kill, after having knocked out
Patrolmen Enoch Hartley and Nose
Davis, and Seaboard Air Line Engineer
John Goolsby, Rafe Harvey, motor
ious negro died in the Jail hospital last
night.
Besides being shot, Harvey was badly
beaten by officers and citizens before
he was made a prisoner, and it was
believed from the first that he would
die. The negro made vicious assaults
upon three men before he was located
by Patrolman Miller in a stable in
Liberty lane, near Barnard street.
When run to cover in the stable he
made a desperate effort to brain Pa
trolman Miller. and was shot twice
while advancing upon the man in uni
form.
Early on the morning of Feb. Is,
while looking for a negro, who had held
up and robbed a Miss Mcleod, Officer
Nose Davis ran into Harvey in Per-
ry lane, near Montgomery street. The
negro was acting in a suspicious man
ner. and was made a. prisoner by the
man in pain clothes. But before
Davis had moved a foot with his man
Harvey let fly right under the eye
that staggered and dazed the officer.
When Davis recovered Harvey was
fifty yards away and making for d
house. The patrolman fired one shot,
but was unable to stop the negro, who
barricaded himself in the house.
Barricaded in a House.
Not until he was assaulted did the
patrolman recognize Harvey as a ne
gro who had gotten the best of him
in a hard fight in Oglethorpe lane,
near Bull street, during the summer,
when the mysterious burglar was at
work. At that time Harvey had
shown that he was a desperate char
acter and Davis realized that he would
have to have assistance. He blew his
whistle for aid and the call was an
swered by Patrolman Hartley. Engin-
eer Goolsby and a white boy also put
in an appearance and plans were laid
to break into the house in which Har-
vey had locked himself.
The boy furnished the officers and
engineer with a bicycle lamp, but as
it was pushed into the room Harvey
smashed it with an iroN bar. Protected
by darkness he used this bar and a
smoothing iron and sent first Davis,
and then Goolsby, staggering through
the door with ugly wounds in their
heads. Hartley was beaten into in
sensibility and fell upon the floor in
the room. Harvey then escaped
through the rear and got away by
jumping over a fence. In the mean
time the fact that two officers and a
citizen had been done up by a negro
was made known at police headquar-
ters and a squad of men, with Mount
ed Sergeant Woods, was put on the
trail of the negro.
Desperate in a Stable.
systematic search was made, and
about an hour later, after the assault
was committed, Harvey was found by
Patrolman Miller in the stable in Lib
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home of the superintendent of police
AS soon as the uniformed man found
his way into the stable Harvey made
for him, and he found it necessary to
use his revolver. One bullet entered
the negro's shoulder and the other
lodged in the abdomen. Although IA
tally wounded, the negro closed in on
the officer and had to be beaten with
clubs and billies in the hands of other
officers and citizens. He was finally
subdued but was suffering from a doz-
en- wounds when landed at the police
station house.
Harvey was known to the police as
a vicious negro, and was a fugitive
from justice for several months before
he was shot. He gave the police no
end of trouble, and was considered a
desperate character. The negro would
have been shot about four years ago
by Detective Murphy. at that time a
uniformed man, but for the fact that
woman jumped in front of the Off
Ger and prevented his firing. The negro
had encounters with quite number of
officers at various times and was cred
tied with being able to outrun any man
in the department
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