The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-28
FIGHT WITH
 DESPERAD0 Two Negroes Killed in
 Battle. POPE BOYS ARE WOUNDED Desperate Attempt of Black in
 Marengo County. Affaw aA0nSR-~. Earss-w E,...a- u~M-
POPE BOYS ARE WOUNDED
After shooting Fellow Raeeman Bar- ricaded Himself Gn Cabin and Heia Ont UntII His Fortress
 Was Burned.


 Nichoiviile. Marengo county. yesterday there are two dead negroes In that Io- cality and one injured. while . young white man was brought to Selma this morning. who. If he does not die from his injuries. will more than likely be blind for life.
 At his home near Nichclvtlle, thn brother of the young man brought to this city is lying fatally injured, 1t ts believed. but tho extent of the injn- ries could not be learned here today,
 The details of the tragedy whfch caused the Ieath of the two negroes and the injury of ths two young white men, was brought to thls city tedag by Dr. Jones of that place. who as- companied the young man to this city so that he could have vhe proper medical treatment. The physicians who are attending the ~>ung man have small hope of saving either of his eyes and other injuries from which he Is suffering may result in his death.
 From what could be learned here, is seemed that yesterday morning nea1 Nicholville. which is near rhomasville. on the Southern Railway between hers and Mobile, a negro, Alex Jones and another young negro. had dificulfy During the fight which followed JoHeS shot his opponent through ths Jeff thigh.
 After shooting tho young ne9ro. Alex Jones left and. going a piece in tad woods. he entered . deserted cabiE and barricaded himself in 1t. Two y0una men of that locality. Lee Pore and zeke Pope, left the village Of NlehoIs vile, to arrest the Jones ne@ro fos shooting the other one. When they reached the house in the woods. ths negro Alex Jones opened fire uEon them
 In the exchange of shots fflA nes had the best of it aud load of aanA rel shot from the shot 9uh hs w using lodged in the face of Leo Pops as did another load in his body
 zeke Pope was also quickly put out of business by tho negro. some neigh- bors heard the shooting and gathered ana while the young men wera car- ried to their homes some stayed to watch the place and seu that the negro did not make his escape.
 The news of the shooting If the two young men quickly spread throughout the neighborhood. and the white peo- pie quickly gathered and started for the house in the woods with the de- termination of arrestlnR ths negro. Bob Jones. the father of the young negro. learned of the action of hls son and where he had barrleaded hiua- self
 Fearing that his boy had run out of ammunition and that if he was captured by the enragod white people that he would be Iynched. the old ne- gro gathered what ammunition ha could and started for the house in the woods to help out hiS offspring. WiEb the white people number of the ne- groes of that community went to help arrest Jones. The white men and the old negro reached the house in the woods about the same time and as the father of the young negro desperadc was crossing clearing his rurpose bee came evident, and several of the crowd shot at him. The shots proved fatal and the old negro fell t0 the ground dead.
 After the killing of the old negro the young son in the house opened fire unon the crowd which had coms tc arrest him. but none of the shots which he discharged took effect Be- tween the crowd on the outside and the negro in the house shots were of- ten exchanged during the day. and as darkness began to settle. one of the negroes who were assisting the whites was offered $5 to crawl up to the house under cover of the night and to set the building afre
 As night settled over the earth the negro gathered together a number oK matches and a quantity of rlne knots and slowly crawled beneath the iittio cabin. while the rest of the narty sur- rounded it. The negro struck match and soon the bunch of plne knots bIazed up and from them slowly caught the old cabin. Soon this A-! eld structure was a mass of fsvNes @ad was quickly burned.
 As the fire lighted up the woods in that locality the party of white men and negroes who had gathered to cap ture the young negro desperado, anx- iously awaited fjr him to emerge fro.n the burning Einding. But though slowly to the watchers. the cabin was soon destroyed by the fire. and tH the flames the negro was cremated.
 From what could be learned here to- day, there Is expected no further trOu~ bie in the neighborhoHd of Nicholvile, The whites and blacks are on the best of terms and no race trouble Will res suit from the shooting scrape and the killing of the two negroes there yes- terday