Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-03
NEGRO BOY KILLS.;
TWO MODS FAIL.
Wife and Two Children Shot Dead,
One Injured and Home
Burned

CANNONSBURG, Pa, July 3o.-Cor-
oner w. II. Sipe and Constable John j.
Miller of Cann0nsburg drove into town
at I:3O O'Clock today with Elmer Demp-
ster, 19-year-old negro, who had oeeh
arrested for the murder of Mrs. Samuel
Pearce and two children and the SHOOT
ing of third child last evening.
The officers had an exciting trip lloiil
! CanOnsDurg. Two attempts were made
to take the negro from them.
Fierce -truggle Is Vain.
Shortly after leaving Canonsburg
crowd OF about twenty men boarded the
car and with shouts OF Lynch hlln NIL
| him." dragged the prisoner and ollcefs
from the car.
A fierce struggle followed, but the OF.
fcers succeeded in keeping the MOB on
) the negro and finally drove them OFT at
the points of their revolvers. =,
When Washington, ID. c., was reached
nearly 300 people had gathered at the
courthouse, but the crowd was eiuded
by taking the prisoner through the pase-
ment to the jail
Dempster was taken to the Washing
ton county Jail at Washington, "a: ieaV-
ing here on a trolley car at o CLOCK.
While no blood stains were found on the
prisoner suspicion first rested on him last
night when it was learned he was the
| last person seen about the house before
! the tragedy.
Farm Helper Confesses.
Dempster was a helper on the fearce
! farm and after the departure OF Samuel
Pearce with his sister, Miss fahhy
Pearce for the Cannonsburg railway STA
ton, Sunday, Dempster is said to nave
been at the scene OF the tragedy LOOKING
! after the stock. He was taken from ms
| bed at o'clock this morning and put
| through a course of sweating which laSt-
ed until daylight, when, it is alleged, he
made "a complete confession.
The only things missing from the
| Pearce home are So and few cents
and the revolver with which MIS-
! Pearce and her two children were muir
,dered.
Only One Child Alive.
! Robert Pearce, years old, the only
survivor of the awful tragedy, who was
shot through the body, will be brought
| to the Cannonsburg general hospltal III
| an effort to save his life
According to the story told in his con
fession young Dempster attempted an
assault on the 4-year-old daughter, aft
,er the departure of Mr.. Pearce, but was
| frustrated by the mother, who went to a
| bureau to get revolver to shoot him.
The negro says he secured the CUR
first and after killing the mother anC
| shooting the children set fire to the
! house to hide the crime. Feeling against
| Dempster is running high.
Negro Williams Taken.
URBANA. O.. July 30-In Il desper
| ate running fight with the police officers
! early today. Bill Williams Il negro
was mortally wounded after keeping the
| officers at bay all day yesterday.
Mob Fails to Find Negro.
| MAYFIELD. Ky, July 3O.-Judge
! r. r. Bugg empaneled Il special grand
! jury today to hear the case of Aller
! Matthias, the alleged assailant of Miss
| Mccain, and an order was made direct
! ing the jailer to turn MIN over TO the
| Graves county authorities.
Acting under the orders of Gov. Beck
| ham. Judge Bugg ordered Capt. Boswell
! to have Co. | at the armory in this city
at 3 p. m.. armed and equipped. There
! are large crowds in town and business
| is at standstill.
\ mob entered the jail in this city al
/ an early hour this morning, but failed
! to find the negro.
Tramps Stay Brakeman.
GARRETSON, n. D., July Go. s.
! Carr a Brakeman on a Northern Pacific
freight train, was killed during fight
with four tramps in box car near here
! today. Two tramps were caught
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