Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-27
CITY PRISON TO GET HIM
Crowd of Five Thousand Men After Hanging Murderer Were Fired Upon by Jail Guards-City Now
 Under Military Protection.


 Upon by Jail Guards-City Now
 Under Military Protection.
 DANvILLE, H., July 27.-This city is in the throes of race riot. One ne- gro, J. D. Mayfeld, a refugee from Ev- ansviIle, Ind, who shot and killed Hen ry Gatterman, white, has been lynched by a mob of 500 men, who were later fired upon by the sheriff, three men be- ing wounded. The mob was clamor- ing for the life of another negro named James Wilson, who has confessed to brutal assault on Mrs. Thomas Burgess the wife of a farmer at Alvon, ILL, just north of here.
 Maytield met his fate while the mob was on the way to lynch Wilson. The angry throng was passing down East Main street when the negro became involved AN an altercation with some of its members. They started after him, and he pulled a gun, firing into the crowd.
 Henry Gatterman, young butcher who had recently returned from For tress Monroe, fell mortally wounded and expired in few seconds. The negro turned and fled, but was caught by the officers within a block of the scene ot the tragedy 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 door of one of the offices. They could not check the mob, however, for 1t secured long pole and tried to batter down section of the wall and the door, both of which were very thin. On account of the overwhelming numbers of the mob it was useless for the officers to resist.
 After securing battering rams it took the mob about half an hour to wreck the city prison, the negro being found hid in safe. He was pulled from the safe, struck with sledges, knocked down, jumped upon and stamped to death. A rope was placed around his neck, and his lifeless body was dragged three blocks through the streets to the scene of the shooting. An effort was made to hang the body to telegraph pole, but the, rope broke. The mob, which by this time numbered 5000, then dragged the body to the jail and burned it. Then the mob proceeded to the county jail and charged it. The sheriff and deputies after warning them to desist fired, wounding several members of the mob, some fatally.
 The mob was especially wild in it's anger against negro turnkey. After the fusillade it recoiled for few min utes, but immediately preparations were made for another attack. A mes sage was sent to a mining camp at Westfield to bring over dynamite to blow up the jail, and the mob leaders were notified that two miners had started for the explosive.
 Company K, a colored troop, has its headquarters 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.
 While waiting for the miners who were expected to bring the dynamite and down in front of the jail stoning 1t and firing shots at random.
 Wilson was interviewed in the jail. He said he was the man who visited the Burgess farm, and he admitted that he had attacked Mrs. Burgess, but de nied that he had criminally assaulted her. The sheriff implored the mob to let justice take its course, but he was interrupted by shouts from the mob, members of which loudly declared their determination to have the negro's life sooner or later.
 The city is now under military pro- lection, and there have been no fur ther disturbances. Four companies of the Seventh Illinois infantry have ar rived from the state camp at Spring field. They are under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Clasby, who has doubled the guard of militiamen about the jail. One hundred sentries now form a cordon around it.
 Adam Murray, who was fatally wounded by charge of buckshot in the head during the, charge on the jail and now lies dying at St. Elizabeth's hospital. is a miner from Westville, and his friends are revengeful. It is known that infammatory talk has been