The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-29
Jefferson Deputies Fired
 On.
NEGRO GIRL ASSAULTED
Sheriff Knocked Unconscious In Runaway.
Colored Employes of Brick Works Create Disorder and One h Kill- ed-striking Miners Cause
 Considerable Excitement.

Birmingham. Aug. 2S.-(Special. )--- Telephone messages were frequent at
 the office of Sheriff Burgin from all parts of Jefferson County today and each message meant something. There has been considerable excite
 ment about the sheriffs office for some
 time now on account of the strike, ada
 ed to by the vicious assault on Mrs. Hydrick yesterday morning near Boyles' Gap by a negro.
 A telephone message this morning
 about 9 o'clock from Graves's mins. six
 miles from the city, announced that a number of negroes employed at the Hale brick works near there were fir ing off their pistols and otherwise ere ating disorder. Deputies guarding at Graves mines went to the brick yard to make the negroes behave themselves when Joe Trimble, a negro with a pis- tol. offered resistance. Deputy Sher- If George Roebuck was fired on twice by the negro, one bullet striking the officer in the trunk and another bullet going through the coat.
 The officers then sent six bullets into the body of the negro, killing him. The body of the negro was brought to the city. The shooting caused much excitement and Sheriff Burgin. accom- panied by Chief Deputy Albert Strad- ford. Deputies Clyde Ennis and Joe Hill went out to the scene, but everything
 had quieted down when they reached there. The horse pulling the buggy in which the sheriff and deputies were riding. became frightened on the re- turn trip and ran away, throwing the occupants out. Sheriff Burgin, Chief Deputy Stradford and newspaper man were injured. none seriously, though the sheriff for a while was uncon- scious.
 Bob Hosken's Crime.
 Bob Hosken. q negro, aged 29, com |, mitted criminal assault this morning about s:30 o'clock upon the person of a 7-year-ol negro girl, the foster daugh- ter of Dallas Farrow, cblored. The ] crime was committed In Farrow's home atSCoalburg, during hts absence. Far rows wife discovered the assault and at her screams Hosken fled. He was captured after an exciting chase by Doc Perkins, another negro, and is now in the County jail. The girl is not dangerously injured.
 Mrs. Hydrick, the white woman who was assaulted yesterday morning by
 an unknown negro at Boyles' Gap
 north of here, this morning looked at
 rested last afternoon by deputy sher-
 ifs in the city, the negro filling a de-
 scription given by the woman but she stated at once that he was not the
 man and the sheriff immediately re-
 leased the prisoner. The negro left
 the court house fin happy frame of
 mind. telephone message from Cor
 dova. Walker County announced that
 negro had been arrested there be-
 lieved to fill the description given of
 Mrs. Hydrick's assailant.
 Trouble at Graves Mines.
 A report came from Graves mines
 this afternoon that a crowd of strik-
 ing miners was seen on the macadam-
 ized road within half a milo of the
 Lacey Buck Company and fears were
 expressed that there might be some
 trouble there. The deputies at Graves
 were watchful but no report came into
 the sheriffs office. Last night oil was
 scattered on the sides of the commis-
 sary at Graves and an effort made to
 ignite 1t, but the guards gave chase
 No charge is made against the union
 miners In this instance.