The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-23
Much Feeling Displayed
Against Henry Harris.
PAID T. [. LOVES FINE
Harris Accused of Attempting to Lead
Coiored Girls Astray, Said to Have
Left City in Alright. Love Fined
for Assault. The Shakespeare
Man."


In the Police Court yesterday the
matter of the assault of L. L. Love,
colored, but white, on Henry Harris.
cofored and yellow, was heard before
a jury of citizens who filled the room
with blacks. tans, whites and speck
les.
The defendant who is employed
in the colored Drug Store on Fayette
vile street. has fine, straight hair,
bright blue eyes, a clear skin and an
aquiline nose. He resembles negro
about as much in face, gesture or
manner as the Circassian beauty IN
the side-show looks like the raging
Ethiopian who was only captured last
summer in the jungles of the Nile.
Love plead guilty and made sever
al attempts through his counsel, e.
A. Johnson. to bring in the fact that
he was acting as the champion of
some colored ladies who had been
insulted by Harris. On all of these
moves the City Attorney sat down
hard and promptly, thus disappoint-
ing the crowd and extinguishing the
halo which Love was proceeding 10
don before it was well lighted.
Long black. saturnine Dave Lane
spread himself around the room as
one of counsel for defendant and
short, bald and frog-eyed Geo Lane
was present for the prosecution. Al
though supposedly assisting in the
trial these members of the bar also
had trouble with the city attorney, ID.
l.. Lane being squelched with scant
opportunity to exhibit his powers as a
ross-examiner.
According to the testimony the as
sault was vicious and sustained and
at least so far as the time of the
actual hostilities-unprovok The
defendant. T. L. Love and his brother
saw Harris at about half past ten
O'Clock on Martin street. They turn
cd back and met him. I. L. Love
asked Harris something about soma
girls" Harris denied the insinuation
and Love struck him with a stick
Hairs ran and Love pursued, beating
him. Harris ran back, still pursued
by the Two Loves and sought refuge
i'm tho store of one Mr.. Batchelor
from which he was run out ana
again beaten on the sidewalk, Wheh
the police arrived. A small blacK~
eyed Chinse-yellow coon with sem
mary accent who was with Harris AT
the time he was assaulted knew lit
tIe that went on after the first blows,
since i'm the time of trouble he al
once deserted his friend with show
of caution that was preclpltate.
Harris also spoke with the accent
of the barber shop when it gets be
Vond the cocOa-nut shade ana refer
red to the time Of his trouble as last
cvening'-with the broad "a
In the midst of all this frankly
black and Notwithstanding Niger Dy
the name of Daniel Biggs came on
the stand as a refreshing recurrence
to race characteristics.
His remarks about comm TO ue
Him HtimP he done
cot i'm dar'' and ''he seZ-with
wave of the hand like Baptist brud-
der at a baptizin'-"I amt done hul
fin ter eder one er you-JuSt So!
were the real stuff which was com
forting as showing that negro society
was not yet entirely the color Oh s e..
cheese nor dependent upon the Stof-
month pronunciation as the sesame
Iove's account of the affair was
Given i'm a way which showed that lie
had not yet done glorying IN the peat
ing he had administered he was
simple i'm the narration and brutal
w frank There was no DOUBT dDoul
his telling the truth as 70 lle
of the assault: 81,
81 met Henry Harris" he said. y
eaid TO him. You're the white man
nimp are you!' He denied It, l struck
Rim He ran. pursued him. | hit him
again and knocked him down. L oeaI
him with my fist. he IndhdSeu ~ s.
nm and ran to Mr.. Bachelors store.
I hit him again and again with tne
sticlx He ran in the store. 1oi-
lowed. hit him again with the
stick. He ran out. | beat MIN WIN
nv fist. We clinched. | was peat
ing him with my fist when the po-
liceman came"
on discrimination Love stdleo
that he had not telephoned Harris "
come to the drug store, nor hao ne
told or asked anyone else TO 40 81
and did not know whether any one
telephoned for him or not. He ana ms
brother were going home at the tline
of the assault, saw Harris on Marliii
street and turned back to meet MIN.
The stick he used was a short broom
handle He hit him with stick De
cause he had one.
81 could whip two like him with
my fists" said Love.
Asked as to having met Harris In
pool room and having refused TO
sneak to him. Love stated that he did
NOT consider him his social equal ex-
nIaining that by saying that he had
reference to what he had heard and
believed Harris had been in the hab-
il of doing.
II was i'm evidence that the brother
of Harris assailant had told him to
bit or beat the prosecuting witness
before the first blow was stricken