The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-26
DEADLY V0LLEY FIRED
FIVE MEMBERS OF THE MOB
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
Others Supposed to Have Been Car.
ried Away-iheriff Commend.
ed-Ihe Jail Battered.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

DANVILLE, H., July "a big, burly
negro named MetcaIf was lynched tonight
and his body burned Later an attempt
made to enter the jail and secure an
other negro. but the effort proved fruitless
and several members OF the mob were seri-
ously wounded by the sheriff and his as
sistants. The mob received fair warning,
but failed TO heed IL, and volley was fired
into the crowd that was battering at the
JAIL
About $50 D. m. MetcaIf became involved
in an argument with Henry Gatterman,
young German butcher, in front of an
East Main-street saloon. The dispute end
ed in the negro shooting Gatterman dead.
Metcalf was caught, and with much difficult
" the police took him to the city prison.
followed by a crowd, which rapidly grew
into a mob that yelled itself hoarse in de-
handing that the murderer be lynched.
The police. assisted by Sheriff H. H.
building. attempted to keep tbs mob out.
but were finally forced to admit a portion
of the crowd. The murderer had previously
been locked in vault in which the police
records are kept. and the officers hoped the
mob would not find him.
The leaders were told that Metcalf had
been taken out of the rear door and carried
into the country in buggy, but they re-
fused tc believe the assertion. Some went
for railroad irons and others for sledge
hammers. and few minutes later the lock
had been knocked off the vault door and the
negro was dragged FORTH amid the exultant
shouts of his captors. The victim made
fierce struggle, but the blows that were
rained upon him soon brought him to the
floor of the police station and a revolver in
the hands of one of the members of the
mob put a sudden end to his sufferings.
HANGED AND RIDDLED.
The mob then dragged the dying negro
from the building and. placing rope about
his neck. dragged him one square south to
Main street and thence five squares east TO
where his body was strung up to a tele-
graph pole and riddled with bullets.
Cries of Burn up" Burn up were then
heard and the mob leaders soon had the
lifeless body of the negro cut down and
were dragging him south on the Wabash
railroad tracks. At South street the mob
To faEo DIV ~ he TAI
where another negro. captured at Marsh
field. Ind. charged with trying to outrage
Mrs. Mary Burgess. white woman. yes
terday. was confined.
AS soon as the word was given the mob
yelled. ITO the jail:'' Mob the ether mig
ger" ETC., and made wild charge for that
building where quite crowd had already
congregated i'm anticipation of another
Iynching. Arrived at the Jail the body of
the negro was placed in the center of the
convergfng streets. where dozens of fren-
zied men and boys kicked and jumped upon
it. The body naked and blood was
oozing from dozens of bullet holes.
THE EoDY BURNED.
Some one then threw an armful of hay
upon the body and touched match to II.
after which the mob backed away a short
distance and watched the awful spectacle.
Growing tired OF this gruesome spectacle
the msh turned its attention to the county
jau and demands were made upon Sherirf
Whitlock that he should give them the al
legged rapist. A dozen more deputies and
policemen had hurriedly been placed in tine
iaiI all heavily armed
As the cIamor for the second negro grew
louder and more incessant Sheriff whitlock
stepped out upon the veranda of his resi-
dence. which Is I'm the east side of the jail
and. calling for silence. said: You are
doing wrong. You will regret what you
have already done tomorrow, and you
should go home and allow the law to take its
course This negro has not been identified
as the man who assatsted Mrs. Burgess
II ne had been would turn him out to you
You cannot afford TO XIII an innocent man.
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