The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-08-02
NEGRO BOY KILLS;
TWO MODS FAIL.
Wife and Two Children Shot Dead,
One Injured and Home
Burned

! CANNONSBURG, Pa, July 30.-Cor-
oner w. III. Sipe and Constable John j.
! Miller of Canu0nsburg drove into town
! at 1:30 o'clock today with Elmer Demp-
! ster, Il 19-year-old negro, who had been
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 from
! CanonsDurg. Two attempts were made
to take the negro from them.
Fierce ~truggle Is Vain.
Shortly after leaving CauonsburS a
/ crowd of about twenty men boarded tHe
| car and with shouts oil Lyncn MN. ALL
/ him." dragged the prisoner and officers
/ from the car.
4 A fierce struggle followed, but the of.
/ ficers succeeded in keeping the moo OH
/ the negro and finally drove them OH at
/ the points of their revolvers.
/ When Washington, -. c., was reached
nearly 300 people had gathered at ing
I courthouse, but the crowd was eludeu
! 10y taking the prisoner through the base
mcnt to the Jail.
/ Dcmpster was taken to the Washing
/ ton county Jail mt Washington, Ia. i'aN-
/ ing here on trolley car ut q clock.
! While no blood stains were found on 'he
, prisoner suspicion first rested on nm I4Nt
4 night when 1t was learned he was lue
/ last person seen about tine house before
1 the tragedy.
/ Farm Helper Confesses.
/ pcmpster was a helper on the pearce
/ farm aud after the departure OF Samu'I
/ Pearce with his sister Miss fanhy
Pearce for the CanuonshurG .IWa| SjA'
ton, sunday. Dempstcr is said to nave
! been ut the scene of the tragedy looking
| after the stock. He was taken from ms
4 bed at o'clock this morning ana put
/ through a course of sweating Wllch I"St
/ ed until daylight, when, IT Is alleged he
made complete confession.
/ The only things missing from U'
! Pearce home are Sl2 aud few cents
! and the revolver with which Mrs.
/ Pearce and her two children were muir
1 dered.
Only One Child Alive.
/ Robert pcarcc, 3 years old, the only
( survivor of the awful tragedy, who was
! shot through the body, will be brought
TO the Cauuousburg general hospital III
an effort to save his life.
! According to the story told in his con
/ fession Young DcmpSter 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 q
| bureau To get n revolver to shoot him.
The negro says he secured the gun
| first and after killing the mother and
! shooting the children set fire to the
| house to hide the crime. Feeling against
| Dempstcr is running high.
Negro Williams Taken.
URBANA, O., July 3o.-ln a desper
| ate running fight with the police officers
early today, Bill Williams, negro
| was MORALLY wounded after keeping the
| officers at bay all day yesterday.
! Mob Fails to Find Negro.
! MAYFIELD, Ky" July 3O.-Judge
II. r. Bugg empaneled a special grand
/ Jury today to hear the case of Allen
! Matthias, the alleged assailant of Miss
/ McClain. and an order was made direct
| ing the jailer To turn him over 10 the
Graves county authorities.
Acting under the orders of Gov. Beck
! ham, Judge Bugg ordered Capt Boswell
! to have Co. ! ut the armory in this city
at p. M, armed and equipped. There
are large crowds in town and business
is at Il StandSull.
\ mob entered the Jail in this city at
an early hour this morning, but failed
to fad the negro.
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