Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-10-11
INAREANSAS NOW
a Negro Was Lynched In Argenta
at the Corner Of Sixth
and Main Streets.
SEQUEL TO RACE TROUBLES
Since September 10 Four Men Have
Been Killed and seven WOund-
ed in the Series of Clashes
which Have Occurred.

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Argenta, Ark, Oct. 8.-As seque
to the killing Of John Lindsey ant
the wounding Of his son, Policeman
Milton Lindsey here, Saturday night
presumably by Garrett Colum an'
Charles Colum, negroes, R. Blackburn
q negro, was lynched Sunday night a
10 O'Clock at the corner Of Sixth ant
Main streets.
The lynching is the latest link In
q chain Of clashes between whites
and blacks which started on Septem
Der is, when a white man named R.
r. Mcdonald killed q negro musician
named Wiley Shelby. Next day al
the inquest held at 1.-THE Columns under
taking station, a difficulty arose in
which Robert Colum was killed and
Deputy Constable Ed. Lindsay and
Garrett Colum severely wounded. the
latter emerging from the hospital on
ly Saturday. Policeman Milton Lind
say, q brother of Ed Lindsay, was
also hurt at that time. Saturday
night Policeman Milton Lindsay and
his father were walking past the Co
lum store when they were fired upon
from ambush. John Lindsay was
killed on the spot. His son was So
verely wounded, but managed to
crawl out of range. When the police
and citizens attempted to enter the
store they were fired upon. 1t Is sup
posed Charles and Gerrett COlum did
the shooting. Later in the night,
thinking the Colum brothers were still
locked In the rear room Of the store,
the place was dynamited but the me-
groes had escaped under darkness
in the early part of the trouble. They
are still at large. At 1850 O'Clock Sun
day morning viii Harding, painter,
was halted, on the street by unknown
parties, whether black or white he
could not tell in the darkness. He
was asked II he was black OF white.
On replying that he was white, he
was told to go back and while leaving
he was shot in the back. At Pollock
James Mahoney, contractor, and A.
L. Bedding, a reporter of the Little
Rock Gazette, while going to see Har-
ding, were fired on'from four different
quarters with shotguns. Maloney was
painfully shot in the hand. Belongs
clothes were peppered with birdshot
but none entered his body. That end
ed developments for the night.
At noon Sunday H. Blackburn, 81
years old, a negro who conducts con-
fectionery store in Argenta was ar
rested on suspicion Of being the man
who fired on Mahoney and Belding.
The town was quiet all day but as
precaution Mayor Faucette and Sher-
lift Kavanaugh swore in Is extra7 po-
licemen and the sheriff sent several
extra deputies to assist the police.
The lynching was done In d quiet
business-like way. Shortly before
10 o'clock four masked men entered
the police station from the rear and
one covered the turnkey with a pis-
toll, while the other got his keys, I'M
locked Blackburn's cell and took him
out the back way. Not a shot was
fired and there was no loud talking
20 that Policemen Pratt, Sheriff Ka-
vanaugh and two deputies who were
standing on the street a few blocks
away knew nothing Of what was 60
Ing on until they heard several shots
fired at Main and Sixth streets. Run
ming there, they found Blackburn al
ready dead, hung to a telegraph pole,
while the crowd around was apparent
Iy merely onlookers.
Blackburn was strangling to death
slowly when he was put out Of his
misery by several bullets.