The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-09-25
FIRED UPON OFFICERS
hegroes hidden In Fence Garner,
d. Deadly Work.
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Atlanta, Sept 25-Iu ngh, n,
South Atlanta. three miles from the
eity's center Monday right. and in
the vicinity Of Clark ungrrsitt. a ne.
gro institution. County Policeman
James l.. Heard was killed and fnur
others wounded Negroes killed were
reported up to midnight Monday to
range from six 10 fifteen
County Policeman Heard with ton
other officers and ten citizens sworn
IN as deputies, learning th~ negroes
were gathering, went to dispense them
AS they approached McDonnugh av.
enue an unknown number of negroes.
hidden behind fences and under
houses, fired a volley Policeman
Heard fell dead. Policeman Frank
Jordan. himself wounded in the head
using the dead body of Heard as a
shield, emptied three rounds into the
negroes, apparently avenging the cold
bloOded assassination. The other cas-
ualties were Policemen Odium. wound
ed in the head; Policeman Fuhanks.
wounded in the leg; Ernest Smith,
citizen, shot in the hip. Three of the
party were reported missing
Following the killing of Policeman
Heard, the force which accompanied
him and were not disabled In the
fight pursued the negroes They cap
tnred ten Of the attacking party -Four
escaped, six were put aboard street
car under the guard of the police and
deputies, and were started for the
county jail in the center of town AS
the car approached 491 Crews street a
waiting mob stopped the car. Two of
the prisoners, Sam McRaunder and
Wiley Brooks, made bold dash for
liberty. The mob caught them in the
front yard of the home occupied at the
above number OF Mrs. R. G.. Thomp-
son, a highly respected white woman
The negroes were cut and beaten and
left for dead. Mrs. Thompson, watch
ing the exciting scene from the porch
OF her home, dropped dead from what
is supposed to have been heart dis
ease.
The police force succeeded in bring
ing the other four negroes to town and
they were locked up in the county jail
Later, it was discovered that Nc
Raunder and Brooks were alive. They
ported dying.
Believing that students of Clark uni
versity not only planned, but carried
out, the attack on the officers in South
Atlanta, the military authorities de
cided to surround the campus, covering
about four acres. Upwards of 500 stu
dents live in houses in this campus.
Colonel Clifford Anderson, command
ing the Fifth regiment sent 500 men
to the campus.
The lynching of Zeb Long, a negro,
at East Point, a suburb, eight miles
from the city, early Monday. has fur
nished the most exciting event of the
last twenty-four hours, Long was ar
rested Sunday night, charged with dis
orderly conduct. He had threatened
the marshal of the town, and announc
ed he was ready to carry out his
threats. He was taken from the East
Point jail, a flimSy structure. after
midnight, and was hanged in the woods
half a mile from the town. No reli-
able particulars of the lynching have
been made public.
The courts have taken hand in con
nection with the riot of Saturday night.
In the city police court Monday Judge
Broyles inflicted the extreme sentence
of the law upon six young white men,
charged with melting to rit, giving
each thirty days in Jail and binding
them over to the higher courts under
81 200 bond each . The grand jury
brought in true bills against two ne
groes charged with assault on two
young white women Both assaults
occurred within the last two weeks.
one in Courtlant street and the other
at Copeland Hill, near the city
In anticipation OF further trouble,
Mayor Woodward issued an order that
all boys under twentvone years old
must keep off the streets AT night
He also asked all citizens to remain
in their homes at night until the pres
ent troubles shall have passed
It was decided 10 not allow The
Clansman' be played here for fear of
further race troubles