The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-07-31
Fatal RACE NARAT DANv|LLE.
A MOB OF 600 WHITES FIRED INTO
BY A NEGRO.
He Was Quickly Captured and Taken
to Jail by Officers But the Mob Bat.
tered Down the Wall and Took the
Prisoner and Hung Him-Another
Negro Had Assaulted Woman.

Danville, ILL.,, July 27.-A race wa
has broke out here. While a mob {
600 men was on its way to the count
jail to lynch James Wilson, a Bloom
ington negro, who had confessed to a.
saulting Mrs. Thomas Burgess, wife c
farmer, negro shot and killed He1
ry Gatterman, white, a member of tn
mob. The murderous negro, a ref,
1gee from Evansville, Ind, whose nam
is j. w. Mayfeld, was then lynche
by the mob, and three other negroe
who attacked the whites were beate
badly. The mob finally resumed it
march to the county Jail, determine,
to lynch Wilson.
| Wounded.
Adam Murray, shot through tn,
head, will die; H. Hines, shot in thu
neck and shoulder, will die; Otto
Heinke, shot in the arm, will recover;
Patrolman Charles Lopp, dubbed OF
the head while defending Mayfield
Patrolman William Leverenz, badly
injured internally by mob's battering
ram while defending Mayfield: Fred
Lorenz, shot three times in the leg in
attack on Jail; Mince Mobaker, shot
in attack on Jail; Mr. Laid, shot in
attack on jail; John Bell, shot in chest
in attack on jail.
Lynching Of MayfieId.
Mayfield met his fate while the mob
was on it's way to lynch Wilson. The
angry throng was passing down East
Main street when the negro became
involved in an alteration 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 expired
within few minutes. The negro fled,
but was captured by officers within a
block OF the scene and hurried to the
police station, with the mob in hot
temporarily diverted from
their march to the county Jail. The
officers, with their prisoner, took ref
uge in the city building, barricading
themselves behind the doors of one of
The offices. They could not check the
mob, however, for it secured a long
pole and battered down a section of
he wall and the door, both of which
we're frail. On account Of the over
Vhelming number of the mob it was
Useless for the officers to resist.
The negro was seized and rushed to
ne spot where he had shot down Cat
erman. 1t was the work of an instant
o throw rope around his neck and
wing him up to telephone pole.
After his life had been slowly stran.
lied out he was left hanging, while
he mob proceeded to the county Jail.
after going short distance, however,
ne mob changed it's mind, faced about
nd, returning to the scene of the
cut Mayfield's body down.
hey rushed it to the principal square,
ullt bonfire and hacking the body
o pieces with knives, pitched it in
he midst of the flames. For while
hey watched it burn and then, COM
1g to a realization of their first mis-
ion. to lynch Wilson, they once more {
esumed their march to the county
lii. ]
Shot Into the Mob.
The sheriff and his deputies had ex-
ected an attack and made a strong
tand. The sheriff refused to accede
the demands for Wilson, and threat
ned to shoot if the mob committed 7
overt act. The mob, now worked :
to an intense state of excitement, T.
ecame frenzied in it's determination
reach Wilson, and in it's fury threat =
ned to lynch the sheriff, his deputies .
nd the negro turnkey. Finally they
larged the Jail, and the sheriff and =
IS deputies fired, wounding nine mem.
srs OF the mob, one fatally. The mob,
cling repulsed, sent to a neighboring y
lining camp for dynamite, and threat. "
led to again attack the Jail. +
Wilson's Crime. - -
Wilson, it is charged, went to the o
lrgess farmhouse while Mrs. Burgess o
as alone and begged food. While O.
le was getting him something to eat
seized her. He fed, leaving her
IF dead. She managed to crawl to a
'ighboring farmhouse and gave the
arm. c.
A posse Of officers started in Dur. ~
1T of the negro, and when Wilson IL
rs captured he was hurried to the ID
unity Jail to prevent lynching. There u
Q negro confessed. 81
Three other negroes have been at ca
cked by members Of the mob and u
verely beaten.
During the height of the excitement
woman in the mob mounted a dry
DDS box in the street and shoutod. T.