The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-08
MOB WORKS QUIETLY AND
 :, OFFICERS COME TOO LATE
Lynched Man Was Not Only Charged With Shooting, but With Max Ina lnfIammatory Speeches
 to the Negroes.

to the killing of John Lindsay and wound ing of his son, Policeman Milton Lind say, here last night, presumably by Gar rett Column and Charles Column, ne- groes, H. Blackburn negro, was lynched tonight at 10 o'clock at the corner or Sixth and Main streets. The trouble orig mated on September 12 when white man named R. R. Mcdonald killed a ne- gro musician named Wiley Shelby
 Next day at the inquest held at the Columns undertaking store. a difficulty arose. in which Robert Column was killed and Deputy Constable Ed Lindsay and Garrett Column severely wounded, the latter emerging from the hospital only yesterday Policeman Milton Lindsay, a brother of Ed Lindsay. was also hurt at that time
 Fired Upon From Ambush.
 Last night Policeman Milton Lindsay and his father were walking past the Column store. when they were fired on from ambush. John Lindsay was killed on the spot. His son was severely wounded but managed to crawl out of range. When the police and citizens attempted to en- ter the store they were fired on. It Is sup posed Charles and Garrett Column did the shooting. Later In the night, thinking the Column brothers were still locked in the rear rooms of the store, the place was dynanited, but the negroes had escaped unseen In the darkness in the early part of the trouble. They were still at large.
 At 80 o'clock this mornng VIII Hard ing, a painter, was halted on the street by unknown parties, whether black or white he could not tell fin the darkness. He was asked if he was black or white On replying that he was white, he was told to go back. and while leaving he was shot in the back.
 Two -thers Fired Upon.
 At o'clock James Mahoney, a contrac- tor. and Al Bedding, reporter of the Little Rock Gazette, while going to see Harding, discovered that a house was on fire Mahoney fired his pistol in the air to give the alarm, and immediately the two men were fired upon from four diff ferent quarters with shotguns. Mahoney was painfully wounded In the hand Beld- ing's clothes were peppered with bird shot but none entered his body. That ended the developments for the night, and it was hoped and believed no further outbreak would occur.
 At noon today, Fl. Blackburn ST years of age, a negro, who conducts a confec- tionery store in Argenta, was arrested on suspicion of being the man who fired on Mahoney and Bedding. No trouble was an- ttcpated, the town being quiet all day, but as a precaution Mayor Faucette and Sheriff Kavanaugh swore in fifteen extra policemen and the sheriff sent several extra deputies to assist the police.
 Lynchine Quick and Buslnessilke.
 The lynching tonight was quietly put through in a business-like way. Shortly before 10 o'clock four masked men enter ed the police station from the rear and one covered the turnkey with a pistol while the other got his keys, quickly un- locked Blackburn's cell and took him osit the back way. Not shot was fired and there was no loud talking, so that Police- man Pratt. Sheriff Kavanaugh and two deputies who were standing on the street few blocks away knew nothing of what was going on until they heard several ming there they found Blackburn already dead, hangled to a telegraph pole, while the crowd around were apparently mere 1y onlookers. Those who had already un- masked had mingled with the crowd so that Identification was impossible.
 As Blackburn was being taken from the jail he kept exclaiming:
 "Oh, Lordyi''