Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-26
WILMINGTON is QUIET.
Governor Says He Will Call Out roops
If Needed.

Wilmington, Del, June 25-The ex-
element and disorder following the
lynching of George f. White for the
murder of Miss Helen Bishop has en-
tirely disappeared and the city and sur
rounding country is now quiet. The sit
uation in this city was so serious, last
night, that Gov. HUM deemed it best
to call a meeting of the judiciary, to-
day, to canvass the situation. A two
hour conference was held at the court
house, but what was discussed and what
plans if any We're decided upon was
not made public. Those who partici-
pated in the conference were Gov.
Hum, Chief Justice Lore, Associate
Judges Grubb and Spruance, Attorney
General Fl. II. Ward, Deputy Attorney
General Robert H. Richards, Mayor
Fisher, City Solicitor Davis j. Rein
hardt and members of the board of TO-
lice commissioners.
In an interview, today, Gov. HUM said:
Conditions at Wilmington are a great
humiliation to the entire state l have
come here against my physicians orders
to get grasp on the situation. The
fair name of Delaware had been dragged
In the mud. 1t was no ordinary mob that
released that man who murdered Miss
Bishop. The crowd seems to have been
composed of good citizens. The effect Of
their work has been disastrous. The law
must now be sustained at any cost.
have not yet decided whether or not
troops will be called out. l trust that it
will not be necessary, but the whole pow
Ell of the state will be used to protect its
officers in the discharge of their duties -
Coroner Mccormick is engaged in pre-
parlng for the inquest on the Italian boy
who died as result of bullet wound
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of the lynching. The coroners greatest
difficulty is in obtaining witnesses who
saw the shooting. The officials are still
in the dark as to whether the boy was
shot by someone in the mob or by one of
the guards
Five cows belonging to Rev DR.. Bishop
father of the murdered girl, We're poison
ed, last night, by someone unknown at
present 1t is believed that negroes Hv-
inc in the neighborhood in a spirit of re-
vcnge for Whites death may have ven
turCd to commit the deed
riot broke out on the streets here late
tonight. between whites and negroes,
which for a time assumed serious pro-
portions. a squad of police have, how
ever, dispersed the participants. Three ar
rests were made. Large gangs of negroes
numbering probably POO. who had been
marching up and down Ninth street, who
were challenged by about % white men
and in the battles that followed over
hundred shots We're exchanged Police
capt. Evans rushed to the scene and
charged upon the mob. The negroes and
whites scattered and flew in all directions
but the police succeeded in capturing
two negroes. Leandcr Moore and JOS
Shoekley. The police used their clubs
freely. The wounds of james Mercer.
who was shot in the head during the riot,
this week, is not believed to he serious.
IN brawl in another part of the city
VIM Cramer, a negro, was shot in the
stomach by Il white man. He was taken
to hospital in n serious condition. a.il.
The leaders of the party of negroes who
We're marching on Ninth street, tonight.
declared that they intended to resist the
attacks made upon members of their last
race, last night. They say they have
been badly abused and that they do not
intend to quietly submit to such abuse
They add, however. that they have M
sympathy for White, the negro who was
lynched, but on the contrary most of
their race in and about Wilmington an
prove of his lynching