Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-12-28
BODIES OF WHITES
PROTECTED NEGROES
In Clash Between RAGS In
Mississippi.
TOTAL DEATH LIST is TWELVE
District Attorney Makes Statement In
Which He Says that the Trouble
Was Caused by Lot of Hoodlums
and Outlaws.
TOTAL DEATH LIST IS TWELVE

New Orleans, Dec 27.-That white
men with their own bodies protect
ed innocent negroes and that every
effort is making by the whites to pun
ish those "hoodlums' of their own
race WHO were responsible for the
Christmas riots in Kemper county,
Mississippi, was the information in
detailed account arriving here early
Thursday direc, from the little towns
which were the scenes Of the blood
shed.
The dispatches say a conference
has been held by civil and military
authorities at which evidence was
produced that will establish the iden-
tity of five white men of good fam
lies q tie county wto took part in
the lynchings.
1t is claimed that these men also
had attempted to shoot Deputy Sheriff
Alexander.
District Attorney Currie has made
statement in which he says:
IF 1t is found upon investigation
that the trouble was caused by a lot
of hOodlums and outlaws who openly
violated all laws of God and man,
and deoency, they will be prosecuted
to the extent OF the law. | am in
formed that the houses burned were
occupied by negroes who were not
even in sympathy with any of those
who were connected with the out
RACES. These men will be captured
If it is in the power of the state Of
Mississippi to do SO, and they will be
the law of the land"
The dispatches say the total death
list is probably 12, that the mob ell
ement among the whites has mostly
fled toward the Alabama state line,
while, negroes in terror gathered at
ScOoba and Wahalak to place them
selves under the protection of troops
or of citizens. The killing of a
negro named Malvin Nicholson is. re-
ferred to as "one of the most brutal
which has occurred since the days of
reconstruction. Nicholson was a
negro of the best class, unusually
we'll to do. While a posse was in
search of negro named Simpson who
had killed a deputy, they entered
Nicholson's house and several persons
began shooting at him. Deputy Sher-
If Alexander and two others rushed
to the negro, shielding him with their
bodies. They protected him until
overpowered, after which he was shot
and his house burned.
District Attorney Currie says he has
! fixed the blame for this murder upon
three men and will arrest them if
they are still in the state.
Governor Vardaman arrived shortly
after midnight Wednesday night He
was accompanied by Adjutant General
Bridge and the Jackson military COM
pany. After comforting with Colonel
Sam McCants, district attorney j.
H. Currie and others, the governor
announced that it had been determin-
ed that three companies of the troops
stationed here will return to their
homes, leaving the situation to be
taken care Of by the remaining COM
mand. The men left for their homes
before O'Clock Thursday morning
Governor Vardaman said he did not
think there was any danger of fur
| ther trouble whatever the feeling
against negroes in Kemper He re-
ferred to the wounding of Conductor
Cooper "by a lot of drunken ne
groes" as an atrocious crime; that
the whole trouble will be thoroughly
! investigated today and that he will
then "have more to say