The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-30

Spinning Jenny Ticket Taker
Blazes Away.
Negro Jumping on and eff and threatening
With Rock is Bound Over 10 Court
Under $50 Bond,

There was not alone music and riding
OF strange animals at the Spinning
Jenny" yesterday.
There was a pistol~shot heard shortly
after three o'clock, as the result of an
encounter between a negro and the young
conductor of the merry GO round.
The negro had been jumping on and
OH the machine, and being ordered to
quit, had some words with the con-
ductor who says he was foully cursed.
The conductor used a billy" on the
negro who got rock and threatened to
throw it. The conductor also gained am
munition at the rock pile and hit the
negro.
The encounter continued, the negro
coming back. The conductor rushed into
the tent, got a pistol and coming back.
attempted to fire. The pistol snapped
at first, but the second trial brought
a shot The negro says this was at him,
but the conductor and some witnesses
testify that the pistol was pointed
downward and was not aimed at the
negro. No one was struck by shot, rock,
or billy except the negro, who collided
with the last two.
Both parties were before Mayor Powell
later in the afternoon and William Nc
Intyre, the merry-go -round man, was
discharged, while Ed Chavis, the negro
who took part with the rock was bound
over to court in a $50 bond. and not
having given it goes to Jail.
There was a large array of witnesses
at the hearing before Mayor Powell,
these being Messrs. John Olmstead, l. j.
Cox, T. G. Mcintyre and Edward McTn-
tyre, father and brother of William Nc
Intyre, all white, Frank Henderson, Ben
Brown and Eddie Person, colored.
Chavis denied having cursed Mcintyre
when ordered to leave, but testified that
he had paid for ride, got off and then
got on to finish his ride. He said that
later Mcintyre pushed him away and
used billy on him, that he picked up
a rock with the purpose of throwing it
at Mcintyre, but fearing to hit people
in the crowd about him did not, that
he was later struck by Mcintyre with
a rock, who next fired at him.
Mcintyre testified that there was
big crowd on the grounds, corner of
Martin and Mcdowell Streets that Chavis
was jumping on and off the machine, that
he ordered him away when Harris cursed
him foully and did not use unnecessary
means to get him away when he struck
him with a small stick. That Chavis
picked UP half brick and made at him,
that later he threw a small rock at
Chavis who lodged behind a bill board
and who was alone prevented from
throwing at him because Mrs. Mcintyre,
his mother, and others We're between
him and ChaEis that when he got his
pistol he fired at the ground, this being
simply TO brighten Chavs and that he
feared that Chavis would strike ladies
and children in the crowd about the
merry go-round.
He and his father both testified that
at his fathers request he started by a
back street to surrender to the chief
of police, and that he was arrested near
the city lot Olmstead testified that
Chavis cursed Mcintyre, while the other
witnesses did not hear the words. The
testimony of a number was that crowd
of about fifteen negroes had told Chavis
to come back, that they would stand by
him. Some testimony was that Chavis
was in the street at the time of the
shot while Mcintyre was on the lot,
others that both We're in the lot at that
time.
Col. J. C. L. Harris appeared for Nc
Intyre and in his plea held that his client
had the right to preserve order on premi-
ses rented by the McIntyres, who run
the merry 60 round, and that il he
thought that Chavis would kill enyone
by throwing that he had a right to use
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