The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-19
One Dead in Road, Two
Shot in Cabin.
OTHERS ARE dashed
People About Statesboro to Drive Out
an Undesirable Class Of Negroes,
Are Pursuing Methods That Would
Have Delighted the
Sans CuI0ttes.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
Statesboro, Ca, Aug. Tive snail
have trouble with the negroes here
just as long as they can't behave
was the remark of a leading citizen of
Statesboro today as he commented on
the terrible scenes of yesterday.
That he was not mistaken was
shown by the development of today.
One negro found dead by the road
side five miles east of the town, his
body pierced by two Winchester bull
lets. two negroes, one of the "old time
darkies'' and his son, II years old,
shot in their cabin during the late
hours of last night by unknown maui
RAIDERS; half a dozen cases Oh fog
ging, which are of nightly occurrence.
too frequent to excite more than pass
ing notice, such is the history of the
day.
The scene of the excitement has
shifted from this city to the rich agri-
cultural region surrounding it, AT
Riggs mill, half a dozen miles from
here, several well-to-do white plant
ers met today and deliberately planned
how to rid their neighborhood of OBJ
noXious negroes. Individual negroes
were marked for lashings and tonight
part of the program is being carried
out.
Two victims a black man and
black woman, have been marked for
tonight at Register, a railroad station
ten miles from here. Their offenses
are alleged disrespectful protests
against the white supremacy here.
Their names were given to the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent today.
This is the condition in this section.
1t is not a race war. for violence comes
all from one side. 1t is determined
effort on the part of a large class of
citizens here to rid the community of
a class of black cutthrOats that have
made life unsafe.
Men of property and family make
no secret of their intentions or of their
approval of such plans. If the lash
will not quell the undesirable popula-
ton or cause them to stop, sterner
measures will follow, so say the lead
erS.
Officers Might Have Saved Them.
The general opinion is that a deter
mined stand by the officers in COM
mand of the handful of troops would
have prevented the burning of the
two negroes, Judge Daley, the presid-
ing officer of the court, said today.
'.While l had been given authority
by the governor to call for what troops
/ deemed necessary, | had put the
actual handling of these soldiers in
when the assault on the court house
was made and the negroes were
taken. / supposed the entire force of
a hundred or more men were about
or in the court house instead of 25
men. 1t transpired that from some
source Capt. Hitch's company had re-
ceived orders not to load their guns,
but to use bayonets alone in repelling
the mob. onsequently those on duty
about the court house We're disarmed
by the crowd and their guns were not
returned to them until after the ne
groes were at the stake.
Judge Daiey's HerOism.
1t is stated tonight that the States
boro militia have prepared their
designations for the governor. Judge
Daley's efforts to quiet the mob were
heroic. Hearing the approach of the
mob he rushed from the bench and
entreated the invaders to respect the
law. A public legal hanging was de-
manded.
Judge Daley declared he had not
the right to promise this. Then the
crowd brushed him to one side. The
military mismanagement was also
manifested with the officer in COM
mand, who it is reported, took charge
of the local telegraph and for an hour
censored all messages and some dis
patches were withheld from the wires
The situation tonight is one of uncer-
tainty. No one would be surprised to
hear of further violence.
Handy Bell, one of the suspects who
was discharged from all yesterday on
account of lack of evidence was shot
to death last night. When he was re-
leased from custody he left the Jail in
direction opposite from his home
He. was followed by fifteen armed men
who kept him in sipht until he was
N no tr~xr xxrI,n
took him and riddled him with bull
lets. This statement is made on the
authority of a man who says, 81
know leaving the inference that he
was one of the party. The statement
is confirmed by common rumor. Bell
was the negro who had the gun of
Henry Hodges at the time of the muir
der and is implicated by other circum-
Stantial evidence.
large supply of buggy whips has
been received here within the last two
days. These whips tonight are being
left at the cabin doors of certain ne
groes as a suggestive hint for them to
leave.
Mr.. Stubs, pastor, has called a
meeting of the elders with the avowef
intention of having expelled all men,
bers who participated in the burn
ing of Cato and Reed.
In explaining today why Handy Bell
ter Reed and Cato implicated them in
the Hodges murder, Sheriff Kendric6
said:
81 got my orders from the judge
and turned them loose. as he stated
that their testimony was not sufficient
to hold the witnesses"
Sheriff Kendrick denies a report
generally circulated that one of his
deputies assisted in overpowering the
guards yesterday. Captain Hitch and
others of the soldiers maintain its
truth in official reports.
Escape of Handy Bell.
Latest accounts indicate that Han1y
Bell has escaped SO far, although he
was followed out of town last night
and captured and only released after
vowing when the rope was placed
around his neck that he was innocent
of the crime.
Albert Roberts. an old negro liv-