Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-04-21
FILLING UP JAIL
AT SENATOBIA
POSSE BRINGS IN A SCORE or
SHERIFF'S SLAYERS.
ROUNDUP NOT YET FINISHED
Officers Still Securing the Woods and
Bloodshed is Expected When Spen-
Ger Brothers are Cornered. AS De-
tails are Told Citizens Determined.

Advices from Senatobla, Miss, on
Saturday state that posses are out in
an effort to apprehend members of the
mob which shot and killed Sheriff
Poag at the Jail early Wednesday
morning. 1t is reported two brothers,
Spencer by name, have barricaded
themselves in a house near cane
brake and decline to surrender to the
posse.
The Jail is now being filled with
prisoners and some of them are being
spirited away to neighboring counties
for safety. On the appearance of the
posse with James Howell, the excite
ment again arose to fever heat, and
the dark pail of sadness was spread
around the courthouse as the prison.
ers gazed upon the casket of the dead
sheriff as it was borne from the jail
to the hearse and from the window
they could see the funeral train as il
moved slowly towards Thyatria where
the dead sheriff was later inferred.
James Howell was carried into E
room of the courthouse and closely
interrogated, but refused to divulge
any knowledge Of the assassins. He
was reticent and morose. and looked
tired. His father was arrested, to-
gether with Adolph Pickle, but bott
were given the right to walk arouno
the town.
Shortly before noon Friday Norman
Clayton, who was wanted by the
searching party, sent word that ht
was on his way to surrender. Upon
his arrival secret conference was
held, and it is believed that he gave
away the whole story to turn states
evidence
When the conference closed there
was renewed excitement. j. I. Cab
bert, acting sheriff, and his deputies
quietly gathered together and depu.
tized fifteen men. Warrants were
sworn out for ten or twelve parties
and shortly before l o'clock the posse
heavily armed and accompanied by
newspaper men went in westerly di.
rection towards Strayhorn. The pos
Sc scattered down the road in squads
The men knew whom they were after
and were determined.
Several of the men left the road
about seven miles from Senatobia, and
arrested Tate Mcconnell, while at his
plow handle. He was sent back by
one of the deputies. John Butler
Willie Sinquefeld, C. L. Manning an6
]. III. Thomason, one Of the board of
supervisors of the county, and father
of the man slain by James Whit, were
later taken. The posse then split, one
party returning to Senatobia and the
other going beyond Arkabutla creek
in quest Of other prisoners.
Two Of the prisoners, Howell and
Clayton, were sent to Batesville. Be-
fore the men left it is said full con-
fession was made and the names of
thirty men given as guilty parties in
the murder The sheriff, however, for
bade the men talking to the newspaper
representatives, and the wires between
Se1atobia and Strayhorn were dead
ened.
Sam Howell, the wounded man, and
his father, J. T. Howell, were captur-
ed in bed at Pritchard, about fifteen
miles from Senatobia by the posse
The younger Howell's wounds were
examined by Drs w. d. Potter and S.
L. Wynne, and later the bullet was re-
moved from the feshy part of his
boy, minor surgical operation that
did not give the prisoner much pain.
7. J. Howell, after being released.
made statement to the newspaper
men in which he denied that his son
had anything to do with the killing
of Sheriff Poag. He averred that his
son told him that he got in a scrape
with woman and was shot. The old
man expressed Indignation at being
reused from his slumbers by the off
GERS.
J HI. Thomason has confessed to
being the leader of the mob that
stormed the jail. He said Whit, the
prisoner, had killed his son and he
wanted vengeance. He said that Alex
Nelson fred the shot that killed Sher-
if Poag Thomason is member of
the county board Of supervisors and
an influential citizen.