The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-25
Two Hundred and Fifty-seven
Placed Under Arrest.
WERE HEAVILY ARMED
Negro Postmaster Is Among
Those Sent to Jail.
COlored People Retaliate by Am
bushing Officers.

Atlanta. Ca, Sept. 25.-The Constitu-
ton in an extra edition this morning
says:
One negro was killed in Brownville.
suburb, by militia early this morning.
while trying to break through the lines.
Two hundred and hfty-seven negroes
have already been placed under arrest
in Brownville. The majority of them
were heavily armed. One other negro
tried to get away and was shot. The
raid started shortly after O'Clock.
Negroes were searched for arms and ev-
cry one armed was placed on the cars
to be sent to police barracks. One Of the
first arrested was L. J. Price, the negro
postmaster, who is charged with supply
ing ammunition to the blacks. Negroes
who tried to break through the lines
were fired on, hating promptly. Cap
tain Wilson held a conference with the
president of Cannon seminary on the
situation. The negroes are henmed in
by militia. Members of the governors
horse guards and mounted county po-
heemen are anxious to avenge the death
of OFFICER Heard and the wounding of
other members of the force. The negroes
are badly frightened
Officers Kill Two Negroes.
Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 25.-In a desperate
battle at close range between bicycle
/ Officers Smith and Maddox and Police
man Casen and two dangerous negroes
barricaded in a house near the corner
/ of McGruder and Randolph streets this
morning, the negroes were killed and
the police officers had narrow escapes.
Officers Maddox and Smith had been
/ notified that negroes were shooting IN
! the vicinity of Houston and RandolpE
streets early this morning. When they
reached the scene there was no shoot
ing. but they were told that the diff
/ Guilty was in the vicinity of Randolph
| and McCruder streets. Whether this
was trap laid to kill the officers is not
known, but a negro informed them
where the house was In which negro
| who had done the shooting had taken
| refuge.
The officers went to the house, Off
Ger Smith going to the rear door and
| Smith attempted to enter and the ne
groes began shooting. Policeman n
| Maddox Tan around the house TO his
aid. AS he did so he say two negroes
leaning out of the window hring Al
them The officers returned the hre
and the negroes dropped below the
window. Officer Casen had come up
in the meantime and the three charged
| the house. Officer Maddox went to the
window and pulled himself up, gun in
hand. A pistol ball narrowly missed
his head, and he fired point blank and
dropped to the ground, pulling the
| window down with him. He then ran
to the door and broke it open, his
brother officers running with him. As
he opened the door a gun was thrown
in his face and as he lodged a bullet
passed over his head He and the
other officers then fred, killing two
negroes.
Round Up at BrownvilIe.
Atlanta. Ca, Sept 25.=Fonowing
the killing late last night of Police
man Heard and the serious wound
ing of three other members OF the
| county police. Colonel Clifford Ander-
son, commanding the state militia, de-
cided on a raid of the settlement
known as Brownville, in the south
ern part of the city, near where the
shooting occurred Brownville is the
home of about 1900 negroes.
With four companies of militia
about IS of the county police force
and the governors horse guards, the
place was surrounded about o'clock
this morning. Two hundred and fifty
seven negroes were placed under ar
rest and g search was begun for arms
and ammunition. About thirty ne
groes were found armed and sent to
the police barracks under heavy
guard When the negroes were found
they were surrounded, maily made
desperate attempts to escape One
negro was killed and another wound
ed in such attempts. One of the firsi
to be arrested was J. L. Price, the ne
gro postmaster. who is charged witt
supplying ammunition to negroes. L
is asserted that none of those arrested
was a student or connected with ClarH
university. Two negrNas wounded II
! the fight with the county police ear
Iier in the night were found dead Ia
ter. They were tracked by bloo6
stains into the woods. where theil
bodies were found.
About 400 negroes were captured
including professors and students o.
/ Clark university. Each one was
searched carefully. II a prisoner was
unable to give plausible account O
himself If he was armed or mani
tested a beIligerent disposition he was
put under arrest and sent to. jail
About 100 were so locked up. Among
those arrested was the assassin of Po-
1iceman Heard who was killed in thk
attack on the county police during tht
early part of the night. With hin
were several witnesses to the shoot,
ing.
The total known dead as the resul
of last nights encounters is reported
this morning as five negroes, beside
Policeman Heard and Mrs. R. c
Thompson, a white wornan VINO drop
ped dead from the excitement of wit
Messing the shooting Of two negrs
prisoners.
Governor Terrell intends during tn,
day to order several companies OF tn,
Atlanta by o'clock tonight.
NEGROES RETALIATE.
One Atlanta, Ga, On7cer Killed in al
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