The evening world., 1906-04-28
NEGRO SHOT
OFF LITTLE
GIRLS EAR
Mob Threatened to Lynch
Him in Ninety-ninth
Street.
ALL OVER A POOL GAME.
Prisoner Is Proud to Be Con-
sidered in the District as
a "Bad Man"

When Earnest Richardson. a negro
beliboy employed in the Hotel Aberdeen.
was arraigned in the West Side Police
Court to-day and held In 500 bail.
he was battered and bruised. He
Just missed being put TO death
last night by a mob. Richard
sons home Is a, No. 20 West Ninety
ninth street. in the upper west side no
gro colony" Two policemen. with
clubs and %revolvers. saved him
from the fury OF the crowd after
he shot a n~lne-year-old white girl
through the ear. in an effort to lodge
six bullets in the body OF Antonio
Dairy. a West Indian mulAtto. who lives
In the same block. on the other SIDE OF
the street.
The white men in the crowd didn't
know anything about his intent. All
tina; appealed TO them was the scream
ing. bieeiing girl lying OF the sidewalk.
and the long pent-up hatred had an op-
portunity TO vent itself when Richard
son. hal,-dead with fear. despite his
TNlLIAN-OA h5 a q mail NAH 4AotNNN
through tie streets. on the way TO the
West one Hundreith Street Police Sta
ton.
More than q thousand men and women
surged through N!nety-ninth street and
UP Columbus avenue to one Hundredth
street. kicking and striking at Richard
son. throwing one at him and run
ming the risk OF being shot or dubbed
by trying TO take him away from the
policemen. Even after he was locked
UP the crowd remained massed in front
OF tho police station for hait an hou;.
Tho Sinety-ninth street negroes did not
mingle In the crowd but stuck to their
homes IN the fear that they might be-
geance.
Richardson IS m understood chap and
Is proud OF the distinction OF being
bad. lie quarrelled with Dairy IN
a pool parlor IN Nlnety-nf,h street late
in the afternoon. He was unarmed,
He said that II he had his revolver he
would make his opponent look Ike a
counterfeit nickel" Dairy. who Is big
and ~good-natured. laughed and told
him 10 run and get his gun. and he I'D.
The West Indian was warned 10 be
on his guard. and he spoke 10 Police
man Herman. The two strolled to-
gether through Nlnety-n!nth street and
separated midway in the block. The
policeman had walked about one hum
bred yards when Richardson appeared
in the doorway q his house and began
shooting as fast ms he could pull the
trigger OF his revolver.
One bu.le; struck Dairy in the feshy
part OF the thigh. -Four went wild. The
sixth cut or the ear OF Eva Yares, OF
No. II West Ninety-ainth street. The
shouts O.. Darby. the scream OF the
child and the running back OF the police
aroused the n%elshborhood. Rich
ardson fed upstairs. Dairy. bleeding
protusely. followed him. n the two
grappled on the second floor. The little
giri. her face bleeding. appeared 10 be
mortaily wounded. 4 great throng OF
women gathered around her. and as
parly and Richardson came ,umb,!nS
down 20 the street there were loud
cries Of:
There he IS! There he Is, XII him"
Policeman Herman rappei for assist
ance ana another policeman ran to his
aid II was only by Fighting their way
that they we're able TO get Richardson
10 the station house. 10 one offered
hat for him He VIII be arraigaed this
morning.