The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-04
Caught While at the Express
Office After a Trunk.
Made Desperate Dash For Liberty
at city Hall and Escaped--Iden-
tilted as the hight Man.
STILL HOT ON his TRAIL.

boro, |. e alias Charles Brown
Henry hutchinson, Henry Harris
and several others aliases, the negro
who has been positively identified
as the one who shot Officer w. Y.
Eaker, of Fulton, yesterday morning,
after he had been arrested for loiter-
ing about the railroad, was arrested
this morning at 1880 O'Clock at the
Southern Express Co. office, on South
Third street, where he had gone to
take out trunk shipped to him By
a woman in Memphis. but he made a
desperate fight and escaped from the
officers at the city hall and is now at
large.
Mob violence at Fulton, where two
negroes and a white man had been
arrested on the charge of being i'm
plicated in the shooting, was feared
and the local police we're looking out
for the prisoners to be brought TO
Paducah for saE keeping.
At the depot last night officers
Scott Ferguson and Dick Wood saw
white tramp stealing a ride on the
blind baggage of train No. 104, the
fast flyer east-bound. The boy made
no attempt to escape when the Off
csrs approached. and admitted he
Mad been arrested, at Fulton, charged
with being implicated in the shoot
ing, but stated he was released for
fear of mob violence. He gave his
name as Charlie Clair, and admitted
he sat across the street and saw the
negro who fired the shot. Clair
stated he knew the man had a trunk
shipped to him from Memphis, and
would come to Paducah to get it out
of the express Office.
This valuable Information in
hand. the police force set about to
apprehended the negro. Officers L. II.
Cross and Thad Terrell were detailed
at the Southern Express Co. Office,
where the trunk was located, and at
1880 o'clock the negro put in ap-
pearance. He called for the trunk
and the officers Immediately nabbed
him.
At the express Office he made no
attempt to escape and was taken to
the city hall. safely handcuffed.
Clair, the white tramp, was
brought up from the city lookup and
positively identified the negro as the
man who did the shooting.
After the officers were convinced
that they had the right man, he was
turned over to City Jailer Tom Evitts.
Officers Cross and Terrell accompa-
MED the jailer to the head of the
stairs and while the jailer was UNI
locking the door leading into the
basement, the prisoner made des-
perate dash for liberty. He burst
open the front doors of the hall and
with one bound gained the street.
Once in the street the desperate
ran like hound to the alley be-
tween Broadway and Kentucky ave-
nue. on Fourth street. He took a
course up the alley and escaped to
the street by jumping over the school
yard fence, the officers ana everyone
at the city hall following in hot pur-
suit. He vanished from the officers
sight near Sixth and Broadway, and
a thorough securing of yards in that
vicinity was begun.
Mrs. Mamie Cobb, who resides on
Broadway near Sixth street. saw a
negro run around her house and
when the officers began searching
her yard, informed them OF the fact,
The house was searched, but the
negro could not be found. Mr.. John
Cobb. son of Mrs. Cobb, arrived on
the scene at this juncture and made
a detour of the house. lie went out
on the front porch and thinking the
fugitive might have hidden under the
porch, made an examination.
lie found the negro under the
porch by seeing his head, but think
ing him armed, thought II best TO
procure weapon before arresting
the negro. Mr.. Cobb entered the
house to secure his pistol, but before
he could return the negro had crawl
ed out and escaped, going out Ken
lucky avenue and disappearing In
the net work of negro houses in the
rear of the stephen drug store at
Ninth and Kentucky avenue.
Officers were sent to all parts OF
the city for the fugitive and ordered
TO apprehend him dead or alive, as
he would probably be armed and
ready for fight.
Lieutenant Frank Harlan this
morning went to the express Office
and made a search of the negro's
trunk. II revealed the fact that the
owner must have been a thief or
burglar. the trunk being full OF
clothing.
When the contents were laid our