The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-04-18
NO. 20.
GOT AFTER HIN.
Negro Struck Lady On Train and
a tlob Came
NEAR LYNCHING Elm.

The Wretch Was Scared Grey, and
Only The Very Large Numbel. of His
! AssaIIants Saved Him From
Being Strung Up. The
Lady Knocked Down.
An infuriated mob came very near
!ynchiug a negro in New York one
night last week. The American says
one hundred men clanofed tor the
lif OF Albert Traus, q West Indian
negro on Sixth avenue II" train at
SeVenty-secoDd street, when he knock
ed down Miss Is bel Oliver, a beauti.
ful young Southern woman, whom he
DAD grossly tnsulted. TIE negro was
dragged to the platform and vas in
way to be lyrcned when the police
arrived.
Ia the West Sixty eighth street DO
lice station, Miss Oliver, who Is a "a
tive Of Alabama, would have attacked
the negro herself had she not been re-
strained.
Clear to the station house doors the
negro, his face turned to a sickly cop.
sery hue with fear, was followed bY
ane threatening mob. Fifty men
forced their way into the station, and
only the presence Of the police pre-
vented another attack upon Traut.
His knees trenbled beneath him, and
he had to be held up 70 give his name.
Miss Oliver, who Is highly educated
and accom- pHshed, was on her way to
her home at No. 292 West Oae Hun
dred and FoIty-second street, and sac
stood In the first car Of the train,
c!ingipg to a strap. Every seat was
taken and many were standing up
wnen Traut forced his way into the
car from the Ssventy-second street
platform, When he GRO Tded past
Miss Oliver, eye witnesses say, he de-
libera5ely took her by the shoulders
and threw her to one side. The young
weman almost sat down in the lap Of
gentleman opposite her. She turned
on the 1sgro With flashing eyes.
What do you mean by doing thatf'
SIZE ceman0ed.
To this the negro Is declared to
hs We made most insulting reply, ap-
plying an epithet to Miss Oliver that
made the high spirited girl almost
wild with anger aad humiliation.
you miserable cur,' she said, but
got no further, for Traut st this poiat
drew back and hit her iull in the face,
knocking her down. Her eye was
blacksn-5 ani her chin cut, but she
did n15 iG5e consciousness.
So s. ZEN was the attack Of Tfaut
that for a few seconds the OTHER pas
sengers in the car sat as ii stunned.
Then the women sh1ieked Historically
and every man present with common
impulse spring to rts feet and made
for the negro.
"L7nch himp' ''Kill the bruteI''
Throw him on the tnird rail-" we're
few OF the cries OF the crowd that
rusned at Traut. But it vas the very
1umber OF his opponents that saved
9ne negro. he stood still, making no
.ffort to sscsps, and tried to fsht of
Gnose nesr him, wao were fairly rain
Ing blows upon his head and face.
The train by this time had pulled
ont Of the Sevsnty-Sscond street sta
Sicn, bus the conductor, who had Wit-
nessed the attack on Mss Oliver,
stopped it aud had il bSckei up 80 the
platform again.
TIE mo5o-nan blew police signals
~ the crowd su-gsd of tie train, 5acss
il toe 'front.' ca: pushed Tcau5 ahead
Of them. Tl,se in the other cars
also q i;ckly learaed the truth and
Grau5 was speedily the centre OF a
surglrg NIB whose members struck
o1e another in their blind desire to
get aa Traut.
Patrolnan MIchasl Flattery heard
the wLl,tles and reacoed the L station
on the run. he worked his way
through to where Tfau1 was being
punched ard ms1ied By the crowd,
who unheeded his cries for mercy, but
the mob would lot ieo the policeman
take him. A hundred tongues cried
sor his lie.
Flattery and Traut were pushed
against the railing and it was not un-
I'll the policeman drew his revolver
that the crowd subsidized. Anouher
policeman and Holmes detective,
who had alighted at Seventy-sacond
street from downtown train, joined
Fiattery and edging along the railing
they managed to get Tfaut Gown 10
the sidewalk.
They had to drag the man to the
West Sixty-eighth street station. He
was too frightened to walk. 1t was
after Miss Oliver had cleansed the
hlood rrcn her face and witnessed in
rha station house mirror the disfgu1-
irg cut upon her chin that her loath-
ing for her assailant sgain overcame
| her and she would have Struck him
had not Sergeant Stevenson inte1fered
Traut covered In his cell when the
door closed and whinpered that be
gas glad to escape wish bis life.
Not NEEDED.
According to official information,
Isa!ian anarchists are arriving In the
Un!ted States IN great nunoers at
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