Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-08-17
Exciting Times in The
County Capital Late
Last Week.
Attempted Jail Delivery Fooled
Friday Evening.
RaViShment Of Young Wife in
the City Causes much Stir
and Search.
Young Carpenter Frustrated by
Heat on top Of School
Building.
Death Of Fine Grey Mule Com
pleteS Weeks Calendar
Of Trouble.

The HERALD cleaner thought !
he had the happenings of the week
at the home town pretty well roun-
ded up when we went to press last
Thursday evening a week ago but
from the way things transpired after
that it developed that the late days
OF the week were more productive of
news than the usual first part.
On that evening at that hour when
the verandas and store fronts about
the Court Square are occupied by folks
picking their teeths and taking their
curcease from toll and the last meal
of the day, the peaceful quietness of
the village was broken by rapid re-
ports from a pistol in the neighbOr
hood of the Jail, interspersed with
hollering and the gathering noise of
fleeing feet. The sound of firearms
will bring a crowd most anywhere
and time, and such proved to be the
case in this instance. Those to whom
the incident being enacted was not
visible rushed to the scene of disturb
ing sounds, while others also sped
that way impelled by what met their
sight. Two negro prisoners, Less
Raincs aud Wifi White had dashed
out over Acting Jailor Lum Byrd
and after an unsuccessful attempt to
wrench his pistol away from him were
flying to the woods while he was
whistling bullets round their heads.
AS fast as the assembling throng
caught sight of the flying Niger
heels they joined in the race and
chase ali headed down towards the
bushes just over ridge from Metho-
dist Church. Billy Durham proved
to be the boss sprinter Of all the pur
suers. He was sitting on the Liz
zic Mclnnis hotel gallery aad saw the
negroes as they raced down across
the road He jumped out and over
took one OF them just in the hollow
back of Church The other was cap
tured by Arthur Clark who charged
after him on his horse which he hap
pcned TO have ready saddled. Right
crcstfallen did the coons look when
marched back to the jail under al
heavy escort OF citizens on whose
shoulders were slung shot guns and
from whose pockets bulged suspicious
looking implements. Sheriff Brcand
was out OF town that evening. IIeI
read riot act to his would be quit
ting boarders on his return which
they wont forget soon<
The next morning hardly before
the t9%T had had time to revert to
csaafr6 repose from the Jail delivery at
tempt, the tranquility was again sha-
ken when at about 10 O'Clock it was
learned that q dastardly crime had
| been committed in the resident por
ton of the city. Two hours had
elapsed since its commitment. Mrs.
Eb Afford, the young wife OF a young
workman at the McInnis mill had
been outraged in her home by a
white man whom she described as
being shirtless and shoeless with
long flowing gray beard, heavy mus
tache and large frame, be having ac
Ecomplshed his helish purpose at the
point of a gun. A posse was quick
ly organized by Sheriff Breland. The
wires were used in every direction
for the capture of such a looking in
dividual. The several roads leading
out of town were traversd for good
many miles out in the search, while
| the woods were vainly secured in the
man hunt. The earth seemed to have
opened and swallowed up the much
wanted culprit. Not single clew
has been found to throw any light
upon the affair. No such describ
ed man lives in this section. The
people here have give it up as too
hard for solution.
On the same day FRIDAY Aug. 100
tom Thweatt, young carpen-
ter, while at work on the Observable
lry on top of School Building about
lsixty feet from terra firma was sud
Idenly stricken with heat prostration,
and but for being grasped by negro
Il helper would have reeled off to his
death. He managed to get down to
| the ground and was taken to his
lodging house where he lay for over
day dangerously i'll.
/ To wind up the week with dra-
matte climax in keeping with the
other out of the ordinary occurren
ces, a fine large grey mule drove to
town by Ed. f. Ball, ungraciously
lay down and died of collie late Satur-
day evening. (Grey mules folk lore
says never die.)
Il While up this week, S. NJ McEa-
chern closed contract with H. L.
A
Moody for building cottage on his
tract of land in town on which his