Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-09-22
WHITE WOMAN is
ASSAULTED BY NEGRO
tovernoror Ordered Troops to
Rescue Negro From Mob.
AN ARMY COAT AMONG EFFECTS.
Another Negro Saw Him Thursday
Near KimmeI House-She viii See
Him Sometime During the Day and
Grand Jury Summoned to Meet.

Atlanta, Sept. 21-Charley Clayton,
the negro whom Sheriff Nelms and
others brought into town Thursday
night from Fit Mcpherson, after Gov
ernor Terrell, at the sherif's request,
mad ordered out the militia, is believ-
ed to be the man who Thursday af-
ternoon attempted criminal assault up
On Mrs. Knowls Etheleen Kimmel at
her home on Oakland avenue, Oak
land City.
At the farm of Frank Hughes, near
Oakland City, where Clayton was en-
ployed, County Policeman Wright Fri
day found fatigue army coat, a pair
of blue overalls and a bloody hand
kerchief among the negro's effects
These clothes, except in minor details.
were those Mrs. Kimmel says her as
Sallant wore. Another negro identi-
tie him as the man he saw near the
Kimmel house Thursday morning.
1t now remains only for Mrs. Kim
mel to see the negro.
The capture of Clayton recalls in
many respects that of the negro assaiI-
ant of Mrs. George w. Moore. of
BroOkwood, whom a mob almost lynch
ed before Sheriff Nelms appeared with
his deputies.
AT midnight Thursday Governor
Terrell was summoned from the Bry-
an banquet at the Piedmont hotel by
Sheriff Nelms. The Sheriff said that
a mob at Ft. Mcpherson was about
to lynch negro. The governor i'm
mediately ordered out three companies
of mtlitia-companies K, B and l..
Sheriff Nelms then jumped into the
automobile of Renfroe Jackson and
with Mr.. Jackson and others drove
at high speed to FIT. Mcpherson. At
Oakland City several men who had
gathered halted the machine and de-
manded to know its errand. Satisfied,
they allowed the auto to proceed.
The negro was then inside the fort
as he had been captured earlier in the
night by an armed party of men near
the Standard Oil plant, but had been
slipped from them by County Police
man Wright and Marshal Ryan. of
Oakland City, who took him into the
fort for safekeeping. The mob fired
seven shots, but hurt no one.
The negro was readily surrendered
by olonel Van OrsdaIe to Sheriff
Nelms, and he was made to lie down
in the machine. Although a mob
shouted to the sheriff at Oakland City.
the machine did not stop. It brought
Clayton on to the Tower, where he
now awaits Identification. The mill
tia was sent to the Tower also.
The negro gave his name as Char
ley Clayton, and declared he was en-
ployed on the farm of Frank Hughes.
near Oakland City. He is of medium
build and very black, answering the
description given by Mrs. Kimmel
He did not wear the clothes when
caught that Mrs. Kimmel said her as
sailant wore, but at the negro's house
Friday morning Officer Wright found
a fatigue uniform coat and a pair of
blue oVeralls. The latter might east
ly have been mistaken for army trous-
ers by Mrs. Kmmel. Officer Wright
also found a bloody handkerchief.
People on the Hughes place say that
Clayton was away all day Thursday,
but returned about o'clock in the
afternoon and changed his clothes.
Ola Henderson, negro living near
by, said Thursday that he had seen
a negro that morning near the Kim
mel houme who answered the descrip4
ton Of the assailant He was ar
rested and put in the calaboose at
Oakland City to be held there as a wit
ness. A mob gathered, however, and
thinking that Henderson was sus-
pect, threatened to take Him from the
calaboose.
He was sent in to the police station
for safekeeping. Friday morning he
was taken to the Jail, and when he
saw Clayton delared without hesita-
ton that he was the same man he
had seen Thursday morning.
Luther Frazier, young negro, was
bound over Friday morning by Re-
corder Broyles for assault with GRIM
inal intent ON Miss Orrie Bryan, a
daughter of Thomas L. Bryan, of 232
Oourtland street.
Judge Broyles bound the negro
over without bail, and he will be held
in the Tower awaiting trial
Thursday night, while the father
was away from home, Frazier entered
the home Of the Bryans and, brand
ishing a heavy shoe made an attack
on Miss Bryan She ran into a clos.
ct and locked the door, thus saving
herself, while her mother and the
other children fed from the house.
The negro was later caught in an al.
ley back OF the house and sent to
police headquarters. The young lady
and her father both appeared in court
Friday moving and Judge Broyles
was only few minutes in binding the
negro over.
Judge J. T. Pendleton, Of ~le superb
or court. Friday morning issued call
for the Fulton county grand jury to
conVeAe monday morning to consider
the cases OF the negroes confined in
the Tower.
General Hill, Confederate, Dead.
Richmond, Va, Sept 21.-General
James c. Hill, a distinguished con-
federate officer and the first railload
of Virginia, died at
his home in Scottsville Friday, aged
seventy-six