The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-30
NEGRO KILLS A
SALOON KEEPER
Holds Posse at Bay for II
Hours, but Finally Con-
cludeS to Surrender.
DEED DONE AT M'CAMMON
MURDERER TAKEN TO PocATEL-
10 TO PREVENT LYNCHING.
Especial to The Herald.(

Pocatello. Ida, Nov. 29.-After twen-
/ ty-one hours of a man hunt in the lava
rocks near McCammon. twenty-three
miles east of here. Charles Evans, the
negro, who at II o'clock Thursday night
| shot and killed Robert Jackson. the
McCammon saloonman, In a street duel
on the principal street of that town,
was captured at o'clock tonight by a
sheriff's posse. He was brought to
PocateIlo on a special train and lodged
in the county Jail Il. protect him from
a mob that mad formed at McCammon
with the avowed intention of lynching
the negro as soon as captured.
Evans, badly wounded in the hand
and jaw, successfully eluded a posse of
fifty men until, weakened by loss of
blood, he emerged from his hiding place
in a crevice in the lava rocks, handed
over his gun TO the sheriff and submit
ted TO arrest. Fearful lest the waiting
mob ar McCammon might attempt to
lynch the prisoner, the officers drove
with him to a lonely station between
McCammOn and PocatellO. and from
there brought him to a steel cell in the
county jail on a special train.
Drunk When He Killed jackson.
Evans. while intoxicated last night,
shot and almost instantly killed his
employer, Robert Jackson, a Mccain
mon saloOnkeeper, who was summoned
from his bed to come and subdue the
negro, who was terrorizing the commu-
nifty after having nearly beaten a
stranger to death with the butt of a
gun. After killing Jackson the negro
escaped to the upper floor of a nearby
building, held the crowd at bay, and
finally jumped thirty feet from a rear
window and escaped toward the lava
rocks.
Knowing the desperate character of
the man with whom they had to deal.
the members of the posse were Ioath
to approach too near his hiding place.
and it was not until the fugitive, weak
ened by loss of blood and hunger, came
with his hands up into the open and
faced the slowly narrowing circle of
man-hunters. that his capture was ac-
CCmplished.
Jackson was one of the best known
saloOnmen in this part of the state.
Little is known Of the negro further
than that he appeared once in the po-
lice court of this city on a charge of
being drunk and disorderly.
Bad Blood Between the Two.
It is learned that there was bad blood
between Jackson and his negro porter
resulting from a disagreement they
had not long ago, when the negro got
drunk and started a rough house in
Jackson's saloon. Jackson interfered
and was forced to knock the colored
man down, it is said. While lying on
the floor. the negro pulled a gun and
snapped the trigger at Jackson, but the
revolver was not loaded. He then at
tempted to strike jackson over the
head with the gun, forcing Jackson to
lay him out with a billiard cue. Since
that time, it is asserted, the negro has
been watching a chance to get even.
Robert Jackson. the man slain by the
negro, was one Of the best known
saloOnmen in this part of the country.
He leaves a wife and four children, the
eldest being about 10 years of age. His
sister, Mrs. L. B. Case, wife of the
county ASSESSOR his mother and broth
er live in POcateIlO