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were killed and the police officers had mar
row escapes.
officers Maddox and Smith had been no.
titled that negroes were shooting in the
vicinity of Houston and Randolph streets.
When the officers reached the scene there
was no shooting. The officers were told
that the difficulty was in the vicinity Of
Randolph and Macgruder streets. Whether
this was a trap laid to kill the officers is
not known. but negro pointed out house
in which he said a negro who had done the
shooting had taken refuge.
The officers went to the house, Smith
going to the rear door and Maddox to the
front. Smith attempted to enter and the
negroes began shooting. Maddox ran
around the house to his aid. AS he did
so he saw two negroes leaning out of the
window firing at them. The officers return
ed the fire and the negroes dropped below
the window. Officer Casen had come up in
the meantime and the three charged the
house. Maddox went to the window and
pulled himself up, gun in hand
A pistol was fired to the left Of his head.
He fired point blank and dropped to the
ground, pulling the window down with
him. He then ran to the door and broke 1t
open, his brother officers running with him.
AS he opened the door a shot was fired,
the bullet passing over his head. He and
the other officers then fired, killing the two
negroes.
Brownsville Raided.
Following the killing late last night Of
Policeman Heard and the serious wounding
of three other members of the county po-
lice, Col. Clifford Anderson, commanding
the state militia. decided today on raid
of the settlement known as Brownsville,
IN the southern part of the city, near
where the shooting occurred. Brownsville
covers about twenty acres, and Is the home
Of about fifteen hundred negroes.
With four companies of militia, about
forty-five of the county police force, and
the governors horse guards, the place was
surrounded this morning. Two hundred and
nifty seven negroes were arrested, and
search was begun for arms and ammuni-
ton. About thirty negroes were found
armed and sent to the police barracks I'M
der heavy guaru.
When the negroes found they were sur
rounded many made desperate attempts to
escape. One negro was killed and another
was wounded. One of the first to be
rested was ]. l.. Price, the negro postmas-
ter, who Is charged with supplying ammu-
milton to negroes. 1t is asserted that none
Of those arrested was a student or con-
nected with Clark University.
Two negroes wounded in the fight with
county police last night were found dead
in the woods.
About one hundred were so locked up
Among those arrested was the assassin of
Policeman Heard, who was killed in the at
tack on the county police during the earlier
part of the night. With him were several
witnesses to the shooting"
The total known dead as the result of last
nights encounters is reported this morning
as five negroes. beside Policeman Heard
and Mrs. r. G. Thompson, a white woman,
who dropped dead from the excitement of
witnessing the shooting of two negro pris-
oners. Two of the dead negroes were track
ed from the scene of the attack on the po-
lice to their homes by trails of blood They
were found early TODAY. Two more died at
the hospital, both shot during last nights
fight, and an unknown negro was found
dead near the scene of the same fight.
Gov.Terrell over the telephone has just de-
clared to the Associated Press that he does
not believe it will be necessary to declare
martial law, but as precautionary meas
ure he intends during the day to order sew
eral companies of the state militia, prob
ably four, to be in Atlanta by o'clock to-
night
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