The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28

| one sticks OF dynamite to blow down the
very walls OF the prison, provided an en-
trance could not be effected in any other
. The boiler workers of the Pennsylvania
hailroad shops on Monday sharpened up
their cold chisels and selected tools that
would bs necessary in cutting and smashing
through the steel and oaken doors that we re
between the front porch Of the prison and
the cell where the murderer was confined
The Harlan Il Hollingsworth shipyards'
men provided n heavy weapon used for
starting ships on tho ways when they are
launched.
Many men from the trolley car service
and the electric lighting plants equipped
themselves with nippers for cutting tele-
phone and telegraph wires and were pre-
currents, IL the worst came TO the worst.
A man VINO had served years imprison-
ment In the workhouse and knew all about
its inside. plan and how to get TO every
nook and corner of it where prisoner
| might ,e confined, volunteered and was
accepted as n guide.
All this went on during Sunday and al
day Monday with hardly an effort at con
ccalment. Everybody in Wilmington who
was even remotely in touch with the great
| mass Ct the people knew perfectly well
| what was in the wind.
| A man in a prominent restaurant on
Monday afternoon offered to make a bet
at even money that the negro would he
Nnt I y, ore. morning, ana cous ll,.u ~
Wilmington that the workhouse was to be
| attacked that night and the murderer of
Miss Bishop taken out and killed, as 1t
% vas UNA. ne nau confessed ana Una, 'he
speedy trial.
| THE NEGRos FEARS AND HOPES.
| Crowds of some size had gathered in the
ncighborhood Of the workhouse on the
previous days. Their demonstrations had
not been sufficiently turbulent to cause
Warden aleservc any particular lineasiness.
A. early "a I O'Clock on Monday evening,
while il was still broad daylight, more
! threatening crowds began to gather. Lined
! up about Che prison grounds. along the
| trolley trncH IN the front ana az elevated
view points IN the rear were groups OF men
ant wss i NOT one so COMPANY s msss ye s1' It
| was only detachments scattered about
hero ard there all of them quiet all out
wardly orderly. Women even were among
! them.
| GATHERING OF THE MOB.
Thsv yy.r. i,,s, wai,iny as oroups in tho
street MIN sion and Wait for a process
| Can - pns. ~ ram s crnss-io,s over
,hn a.,d p"es s.u Nv. rnadvav
! and arper vol,,n,. Of recruits A dark
nsvs feii thc trnil.v oars from the civ
hegan 70 COM. ont IoadnI 70 their limits
, fairly black with men and bows.
One 10y one the groups grew until they
! met and merged into a compact mass
There was a growing stir and excitement
noticeable 1t was one crowd now massed
! in front Of the prison.
It's voice began TO be heard. From the
! murmuring sound OF many, people talk
| ing il grew in volume until ii had taken
! on the hoarse, omino,ls tone that could
not be mistaken by those who had once
! heard II.
Weapons began to nash In the glare Of the
electric lights In the prison yards. There
was the quick gleam of the nickel-plating
| on revolverS waved menaCingly in the air,
and. more ominous STILL the long barrels
Of many rifles were noted
MEASURES FOR DEFENCE.
~. Tn tI,. .,,,,,,tr,rr, danger or the s;t,,,-
But. beyond relyina ON what seemed the
security OF the Prtson steel bolts and barr,
and warning his little corps of prison guards
what could he d.? H. was outside the
| city limits, and the police could not egiti-
| mately come to his aid.
tie did, IN TACT, telephone TO Cher Black,
ana 'hat on1cer. acooml'Snfd 10y lapls.
IA name anu Evans, cam nurrSing oul 70
nE suppor'i ta'eeu.he ~. authoiity IN
10 GONG beyona .hr .h1 ,h sven as
I'm m,sn , p e. carried Gy ,i~lr uhn r;.s.
| they w2uio ne mere cnhn @iore ma rlo.ous
"hirtW'iid' JUST as the sh'irr ponce force
OF wilmington "ouin nave pen
THE MoR's TWO LEADERS
II was quite O'Clock before the full
working contingent of the mob was on
the ground and fully unlimle red for action
From that nom. nj there was not an in
stant's dealy. The crowd now swarmed
up oil the littl. elevate ms of the prison
ward, up the steps and all over the front
porch
Chief Black and Capts Evans md Kane
alone forced their way to the porch. tryinr
to rrrs,Iade the leaders to desst, TheV
were treated with Rood-natured contempi.
There were two men conspicuous AT The
front as leaders of operatfons-a short
stocky one in red sweater. and a taller
thinner one in da rk clot hes and n derby hat
There was not the slightest ATTEMPT al,
disguise, on their part or on that of ANYBODY
else in the mob They stood revealed to
all who might see them for lust who and
what they were The short mia n in The red
sweater was the more active in the on
slsught.
-Coine. boys" he said to Chief Black and
his two captains, get to one side. you are
lothering US"
THE nooR sN.surn ~
p,.,,, uan. and r., ,,,1, la,
,.anerats stand before the prison door
They were ignored. As they refused to
get out Of the way. the heavy cross tie that
had been brought up ~ a batterins ram
wa. lifted I'm and dashed over their hoo ds