Arizona republican., 1903-07-26
HE BUTTED IN A Negro Who Interfered
 With a MOb'S Progress.
 Is IN PIECES AND ASHES
the Jail at Danville, Ills, Defended by Resolute Sheriff-The Whole Thing Amounts to a Race War.

broke out here tonight. While q mob ty jail to lynch James Wilson, Bloom ington negro, who had confessed to as- saulting Mrs. Thomas Burgess, the wife of farmer, an unknown negro shot and killed Henry Gatterman, a white man, a member of the mob.
 The murderous negro, refugee from Evansville, Ind, J. w. Mayfeld, was then lynched by the mob, and three other negroes who attacked the whites were beaten badly. The mob finally resumed its march to the county jail, determined to lynch Wilson.
 The wounded are: Adam Merry. shot through head and will die; H. Hines, shot in the neck and shoulder and will die; Otto Heinke, shot in the arm and will recover; Patrolman Charles Lopp, clubbed on the head while defending Mayfield; Patrolman William Leverenz, badly injured in- formally by the mob's battering ram while defending Mayfield; Fred LorenZ, shot three times in the leg in the attack on the jail; Mince Mobaker, shot in attack on the jail; MT. Laird, shot in attack on the jail; John ell, shot in chest in the attack on the jail.
 Mayfield met his fate while the mob was on the way to lynch Wilson. The angry throng was passing down East Main street, wher the negro became involved in an altercation with some of its members. They started after him and he drew a revolver. firing into the crowd. Henry Gatterman, a young butcher, fell mortally wounded, and ex- pired within a few minutes. The negro fed. but was caught by officers within block of the scene and hurried to the police station, with the mob in hot pursuit. temporarily diverted from their march to the county jail.
 The officers with their prisoner took refuge in the city building. barricading themselves behind the docrs of one of the offices. They could not check the mob, however, for it secured a long pole and battered down the door. On account of the overwhelming numbers of the mob it was useless for the off cers to resist. The negro was seized and rushed to the spot where he had shot down Gatterman.
 It was the work of an instant tO throw a rope around his neck and swing him up to telephone pole. Af- ter his life had been slowly strangled out he was left hanging while the mob proceeded to the county jail. After go- ing a short distance, however. the mob changed its mind, faced about and, re- turning to the scene of the lynching. cut Mayfield's body down. They rush ed it to the public square, built d bon fire, and, after hacking the body to pieces with knives pitched it into the midst of the flames. For a while they watched it burning and then, coming to realization of their first mission to lynch Wilson, they once more resumed their march to the county jail. The sheriff and his deputies had expected an attack and made a strong stand. The sheriff refused the demands for Wilson and threatened to shoot if the mob committed an overt act.
 The mob, now worked up to an in- tense state Of excitement, became frenzied in it's determination to reach Wilson. and in its fury threatened to lynch the sheriff and his deputies and a nergo turnkey. Finally they charged the jail and the sheriff and his deputies fired and wounded three of the mob, one fatally. The mob being repulsed, sent to a neighboring mining camp for dynamite and threatened to again at tack the jail.
 Wilson, it is charged, went to the Burgess farmhouse while Mrs. Burgess was alone and begged for food. While she was getting him something to eat he seized her. He fled, leaving her half dead. She managed to crawl to a neighboring farmhouse and gave the alarm. A posse of officers started in pursuit of the negro. and when Wilson was captured he was hurried to the county jail to prevent lynching. There the negro confessed.
 During the height of the excitement a woman in the mob mounted a dry goods box in the street and shoutedr Kill the sheriff. He has shot more than one white man on account of a negro"
 After the fusillade the mob reCoiled for few minutes. but immediate prep arations were made for another attack. A message was sent to a mining camp at Westville. H.. to bring over dyna- mite to blow up the jail. and the mob members were notified that two miners had started with the explosive, heavily armed, and riding swift horses. Com
  quarters here, and the officials have prepared to call it out. Leaders of the mob declare they will try to kill the entire company if it comes out
 On the edges of the square at mid night two unknown negroes lay in the gutter. They were beaten into insen- sibility with clubs in the hands of white citizens. Nearly 200 men and women from Alvin, where the assault on Mrs. Burgess was committed, are active leaders of the mob. The mob at midnight has been increased to several thousand, the entire square in front of the jail being packed with shouting men and women.
 While waiting for the miners who were expected to bring the dynamite from Westville, the mob marched up and down in front of the jail, stoning it and firing shots at random. About a half hour after the message for the dy- namite was sent q telephone message