New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-07
THREE NEGROES TAKEN.
BURLINGTON is QUIET.
Lynch TdIk Ceases-One of Search
erS Shot By Mistake.
iBT TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBrNE.l

Burlington. y j. July G.-One of a party Of
searchers for Of the three negroes who assault
ed Mrs. Biddie. it not being known at the time that
the fugitive sought under arrest in PhlIaucI-
pnis was shot by other searchers tonight. How
severely he wounded is not Yet known
Two searching parties met in the woods. AlbeTtGs
Nhtlock. the local agent OF the Colonial Insurance
Company. a little TO side Of the party he
was with. A member Of the other party him
and ordered him halt. Whitlock started to run.
Several shots fred. and one bullet hit him
IL is said that those who hred are members OF
Company A, who acting special constables
That another New-Jersey town had passed
through q period Of threatened lynching without
putting blot the name of the State expresses
the feeling of the better element in Burlington to-
night. Aaron Timbers and William Austin, whose
real name is thought to be Sims. two of the three
negroes wanted for the assault on Mrs Charles
Biddle, were captured this evening at the house Of
Timbers's sister. in Philadelphia. 1t is said that
they have confessed TO Detective Tate. Thomas
Jones. aged twenty. Of Philadelphia the third mem
Der OF the gang, who was arrested in the negro
settlement here YESTERDAY is in the Burlington
County jail Mount Holly.
Judge Joseph II. GaskI made a statement to-
night in which he said that the law would take its
regular course and that there danger OF
mob violence. AS soon as the men landed in
the Mount Holly Jail he Will call grand jury. and
If indictments found he VIII Immediately recall
the petit jury. assign counsel 10 the negroes and
give them speedy trial without waiting until next
fall.
All day half a dozen posses from six TO twenty
men strong. many of them formally sworn in as
deputy sherlffs, searched the woods for a radius
Of miles about Burlington for Aaron Timbers
and the unknown negro youth All day a MONDE
script mob. composed mostly of young men and
boys hung around the negro quarter Of the town
near the City Park. and twice searched the houses
occupied by young Timbers's relatives.
Strange it may seem, most Of the lynching
talk to-day came the officers and privates OF
Company A Sd Regiment. National Guard Of New
Jersey who would naturally be the first called on
TO defend the accused negroes against the mob
Privates in uniform. and armed with State rifles
were among those who beat Factory Woods and
other possible hiding places. They had not been
ordered out, and acting on their own re
sponsibility.
we will shoot him sight" two OF them de-
cared iingling the shells which filled pockets
Captain T. b. Stone. who is in command Of the
local company. made this remarkable statement
this evening to a Tribune reporter, who asked what
arrangements had been made TO call out his com
pany, in case Timbers captured and threatened
by a mob
No arrangements have been made and none
will be. He ought be lynched and II there is
is a chance OF it I will see that I get beyond
reach Of orders
During the day Captain Stone and three prtvates,
heavily armed drove about the country in search
Of Timbers.s
That Burlington people were not IN earnest
when they talked OF lynching, however, was
shown early this afternoon when they permitted
the police to take Jones the Mount Holly jai!
in an open streetcar. He had been identified by
Mrs BiddIe as one of her aSsailants. and the
whole town knew IL. Nor there great effort
at secrecy Of his removal Mount Holly.
At l O'Clock ons of the regular trolley cars
was stopped in front OF the jail by Captain Joseph
Shamard Of the local police Jones'. trembling
with fright and begging the officers to save his
life was brought out handcuhed TO Constable
Samuel Shinn. There was a crowd. and they
denounced the negro in nc uncertain terms but
they made no attempt take him from The Of
hcers Later in the day the report sent in
from the Factory woods that Timbers had been
seen there It was necessary to post this notice
ct the depot: