The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-06
TWO UGLY ROWS ON
WALDBURG ST.
RIOT WAS ALMOST STARTED
WHITES ENGAGED IN ONE FIGHT
AND NEGROES IN ANOTHER.

Police Kept Busy in the Late Aft
ernOon Looking Out for Scrappers
On the West Side-White Row
Was in DisOrderIy House Kept by
n Negro, While the Negro Row
Took Place On the Street-Ed
WEIGH, who Has Been in Trouble
Before Was Beaten and Cut-WOm-
Broke Her Leg.
There were two lively fights on
Waldburg street, west, late yesterday
afternoon, one involving white persons
and the other negroes, both taking
place within a block of one another
and only a short time apart. The
white row was by far the more Sc
rious, yet the negro fight came near
precipitating a riot, as several hundred
negroes gathered about.
The first of the difficulties took place
at the house of Willie Davis, a negro
woman. Ed Welch, a young white
man, was has been in a number of
diffiT dties. was badly beaten and cut.
He was stabbed over the left breast
and cut in several places about the
arms. w. L. Beaudrat, A. L. Ma
lone, w. E. Teuton. E. w. Carr, w. P.
Cochran and Katie Cochran were ar
rested, charged with assaulting and
beating him. No case was made
against Welch or against the woman
who kept the house.
Charged With Broken Leg.
The Davis woman wanted to prefer
a charge against WEIGH of breaking
her leg, but the police could not see it
that way. When asked how he broke
her leg, she said he had started the
row and she ran out the back way of
her house to call the police. She fell
off the back fence and claims broke
her leg. She insisted that WEIGH was
responsible and wanted the case made
against him. She went to police head
quarters in a cab to make complaint
against Welch and was unable to leave
the vehicle. She had to be held up in
the cab by other negroes.
Detectives Bostick and Davis made
the arrests. They were at the Union
Station, when WEIGH came up the
street looking for a drug store. He
was bleeding profusely. They found
out from him the people involved and
Immediately started for the house. On
the way there they caught two of the
men, another was found at the house,
and another was caught just trying to
get away. The two Cochrans were ar
rested last night The woman had
some blood on her clothes and the man
had his hands cut. He stated he was
cut in keeping Welch from cutting the
woman
Just how the fight started or just
what took place is not positively
known by the police, as there are con-
f1icting statements. The crowd were
all at the house drinking and a dis
cussion over a shooting affair some
time ago led to the fight.
Row Among Negroes.
The negro row took place out on the
street, at the intersection of VALID
burg and Cuyler. Jim Hubert. an
old negro man, was attacked by the
whole Jones family, consisting of Toney,
Reuben, Lewis, Alberta, Mary and d
couple of others, who escaped. The
old man was beaten until he bled
profusely. One of the women rained
blows on him with an iron poker while
the others alternately struck and kick
ed him.
Policeman Broom arrested the five
prisoners single handed. When he ar
rived on the scene, the negroes were
still beating the old man. They ran
into their house and slammed the door
at his approach, but he followed close
behind and broke the door in. One of
the negro men started to pick up a
chair to attack the officer, and was
Knocked down by a blow from Broom's
pistol
The fight started because the old ne
gro complained that a child of one Of
the negroes had been throwing rocks
over into his ward