The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-21
And Is Hunted Down and Shot
Like a Beast.
MET DESERVED FATE.
He Had Killed Two Policemen and Three
Innocent Negroes on the Streets of
Asheville, N. c., and is Run
Dewn and Riddled With
Bullets.

GISGsACS DASFSAg III oCASA!oS " eA1S4A
captain, Patrolmen Charles Black.
stock and William Bailey, two Of the
most efficient members OF the Ashe.
vile, N. c., police force, ,ss!swere shot
to death on South Main street at
11.30 O'Clock, on Tuesday night OF
last week By negro, who said bis
nams was VIII Harris, Of Chsi!Dtte,
desperate for whom large reward
has been offered tor some time.
Prior to the death OF the two officers,
a negro restaurant keeper named Ben
Allison fell dead at the hands OF
Harris, who, handling Savage riffs,
killed him without provocation. An
other negro named Tom Neil, was
nortslly wounded, he, too, being shot
before the officers took a hand in the
melee.
Harris started out on his death
dealing tour from negro house on
| Valley street. He fred into two
houses as he made his way to South
Main street, one OF the principal
streets Of the city. AS he reached
E:gle street he fred at ana killed
Allison. On South Main street. the
desperate encountered Tom Neil and
fred point blank at him. He then
shot and instantly killed az old negro
that happened to be in bis way.
The noise of the shooting carsed
Police Captain Page and Officers
Bailey and Blsckstock to start from
police headquarters on the run, blow.
ing their whistles as they went.
Bailey took bis stand at the head of
South Main street and the court
house square, leaving his captain and
Blackstock to go on ahead. Captain
Page met the negro in the center OF
Main strest, the former receiving
bullet in the arm from the negro's
rife.
The wounded captain called upon
Blackstock to fire, but before the
ficsr could do so, be fell dead with
bullet In the chest. Barris 5hel
started on q run Tor the square,
where Patrolmau Bailey was waiting
for him. Bailey fred twics, but niEs.
ed his man, the negro, turning bis
rife on the officer. sent bullet crash.
ing through the lstter's brain. TIE
officer lived but few minutes afts-
be fell.
The negro then ran down South
Main street toward Biltnore, and
made bis escape. The greatest ex,
citsnent followed the killing OF the
tWo innocent negroes and the eff cers.
A general 1re alarm was turned in
By the chief Of police, Bernard, for
the purpose OF calling out the militia
companies, and several posses gu ck..y
formed to take up the pursuit OF ths
murderer. The store Of the Ashe-
vile Hardware company was broken
into by police off 3srE. and the posses
were armed with winchess tor rtfss ana
shotguns.
Blood hounds were put on the trail
CT the outlaw and they at last ran
him down and held him at Bay some
distance from the scene Of his Dur.
ders after following him Z day and
night. At seven O'Clock Thursday
morning q report reached AsheVille
that the blood hounds had followed
the desperate to Buens Vista some
ten miles away. Three posses OF
cf6cers and citizens inmedisVely set
cut for Buena Vista, and there it was
learned that the negro desperado had
been seen leaving q barn just before
daybreak. It was stated shat the
fugitive had taken the high road for
Arden, three miles further on.
The trail OF the desperate had been
lost by the dogs about this time ow.
Ing to interference with some hogs,
but those who @ere hunting Harris
knew be was near by. So acting
under the advice Of Ez.Chief OF
Police Jordan, the posse vas divided
up into lq lads, each one taking Sc
parate rouses toward Arden. All
the posses cams together at Fiether's
and there E1 Chief Of Police JORDAN
decided that the best course to pur
sue was to again divide ahe fifty OF
more men into squads. Two Of these
secured Blaks'S woods, one deployed
to the lett, while another was left
guarding the road IN front Of Gun
ningham's store.
Dr. L. P. Russell, N. B. Baldwin
and Harry Roberts caught first sight
Of tho negro in Blake's woods, and
the signal agreed upon, two shots tn
rapid succession" warned the search
ers that the quarry had been run to
earth. Again the rifles rang out and
the fseing form Of a negro who car
rie6 a rif1, emerged from tbs Blake
property and ran seross the high road
to . field skirsing the Wsstfeldt pro-
perty,
O1 the porch OF q private house ad-
| joining the Cunningham store stood
7. 81. Caine, editor Of the Ashevllle
Citizsn, who was one Of the sQus5
which was left at F!echer's to guard
the road Ae the neprc reached The