The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-26
WAS
Yesterday for Assau1ting Negro I'm
This City-Admitted Knocking Ne
gro I'm Head With Brick i'm Bladen
County-Learned That Negro After
wards Died from the Wound-Ne-
groes Who Held Up White Boy
Near Delgado Given Preliminary
Trial.

jackson Brown, colored. was arrested
yesterday upon the charge of a~ssaul:ilg
Simon Allen with a beer bottle. The
fight occurred on Thursday night
Constable Savage succeeded in land
ing Brown yesterday morning and il
seems that he is not only guilty Of as
sauIting Allen but is also a murderer.
A negro who lived at Westbrook, PEN
der county, was knocked in the head
with a brick several months ago and
a few days later he died from the eff
fects of the wound. The negro who
mad the assault in the meantime dis
appeared.
When Brown was arrested yesterday
he was carried before Justice Borne
mann te be tried and a spectator, who
lived in Rladen county, happened to be
present n he asked Brown If he didn't
knock a negro in the head with a brick
at Westbrook and he replied that he
did. He was then asked if he didn't
know that the negro died from the
wound and his reply was that he did
not
III is believed that Brown is the same
negro who made a murderous assault
on q mar at Clarkton some weeks ago.
He did not deny making an assault
I'm Allen n said the reason he did
SO was because Allen was fighting his
(Brown's) brother and that he thought
he would stop him. Justice Borne
mann bound Brown over to superior
court n in default Of a $500 bond he
was committed to Jail to await trial
at h next term of superior court.
Young Negro D~esperadoes.
Walter Shaw and Elijah Taylor, the
Two young negroes who were charged
with a~ssaultilg Hankins c.. Borne
mann, a IA year old boy, We're given a
sLfsxnann yesterday. There was no
evidence to show that Shaw was
guilty, so the case against him was
dismissed, but Taylor was bound over
to superior court and in default of a
$50 bond was committed to pail.
. Meither of the defendants were over
Ii wears of age. Elijah Taylor was
charged with a%ssaulting the Bornemann
bow with a deadly weapon and also for
carrying concealed weapons.
The assault, or hold up, occurred on
the shell road on Friday morning.
Hankins Bornemann. who lives in the
country about two miles east of Del
paQO, was on MS way 10 "iiinIllSloi
on a bicycle and when about a mile
from Delgado he vas commanded to
stop by three young negroes who were
standing by the road. He paid no at
tention to their command and the boy
states that just as he passed them,
riding rapidly. hat he heard one OF
the negroes, the largest one of the
three, say to Taylor, shoot him.
Taylor, the evidence showed. at C
drew a pistol and fired at Bornemann.
This of course frightened the boy n
the rode as rapidly as possible to Del
gado and reported the matter at the
superintendent's office.
Mr. Walter Williamson, superinten-
dent of the Delgado mill,
several men and they went in search
of the three young desperadoes and
succeeded in capturing the two above
mentioned. When caught a 2 calibre
pistol was found in Taylor's pocket.
At the trial yesterday Taylor admit
ted shooting but said he was shooting
at a bird hat he saw near the sid
OF the road. This is no the first time
that Taylor has been in trouble. He
was convicted in the Superior court
some time ago Of larceny and was re-
leased upon assurances from his father
that he would give him a whipping.
The whipping administered does not
seem to have had the desired erect.