The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
NEGRO MURDERER CAPTURED
Brought to Bay after Months of Pur-
suit and Surrenders after Des-
perate Battle.

San Jose, CAL, May 25.-In a des.
perate battle with two police officers
both OF whom he wounded, Jesse
Coe, negro murderer, wanted by
the indianapolis authorities, was cap
tured last night and is now in jail
waiting the arrival of officials with
proper requisition papers from the
Eastern State.
Goes apprehension came through
| information received by Chief of Po-
lice Carroll, who sent Patrolmen
Mullally and Guerin to bring the sus-
pect in that he might be compared
with the description sent broadcast
over the country by the Indianapolis
police announcing $1,5OO reward for
his arrest.
The man at first submitted and en-
tered the patrol wagon. When near
the postoffice Coe suddenly shook off
the hold of the officers, and, drawing
razor from his shoe, began to carve
his way to liberty.
Cutting and slashing he forced
both officers from the wagon and
Mutually, whose face was laid open by
razor, fell from loss of blood. The
negro broke away and started to run,
with Guerin close at his heels.
Seeing his captor could not be
shaken off he swerved suddenly and
slashed Guerin across the back of
the neck, narrowly missing the Jug
ular vein. Guerin fired one shot from
his revolver, the bullet striking the
negro on the side of the head and
staggering him.
AT this juncture the patrol came
into action again and its driver, John
Humberg, aided Guerin to take the
negro alive. All three of these officers
will share in the reward offered for
the capture of this man, who shot
and killed Police Officer Russell in
Indianapolis Sept. 80, 1906. Guerin
and Mutually searched their man in
his room at the New York hotel, but
failed to tap his shoes, from one of
which the negro took the razor he
used with such effect.
Guerin is in bad shape as the
weapon cut across the back of his
neck and severed some blood vessels
in his neck. Mullally's face is laid
open some ten inches and the flow of
blood was SO great that he tainted
almost Immediately Both officers are
in the county hospital.
The negro is Coe beyond a doubt
Every scar and mark indicated in the
cards sent out by Chief Metzger Of
indianapolis has been found.
When confronted with his picture
the negro did not waver, but said
II never used razor on the police
in my life"
uC idttci otdtChiSut Wdo hiduS
while one of his victims was being
tended in a room not ten feet away.
The scrofula scar on the back of
the prisoners neck corresponds .ex-
actly with that in the published de-
schiption and no one comparing the
negro with the photograph sent out
by the Indianapolis police could
doubt that he is the murderer.
Chief of Police Carroll, in view of
the known desperate character of the
man, ordered the officers to bring
him in on an alleged bicycle theft
charge, and that he was not brought
in dead is due to the action of Patrol
Driver Humberg. who aided Guerin
in taking the fellow, who resisted ar
rest even when the revolver of the
patrolman had sent one bullet into
him, and was about to make a good
job of it. Humberg told Guerin to
stop firing, and then covered the ne
gro.
Events in murder case: Sept. 30,
19O6-George Williams and Jesse
Coe, negroes, shot Patrolman Charles
]. Russell and Edward Petticord. the
patrolmen dying at the City Hospital
Oct. 1, 1906-Police push search all
over country for Coe
Oct 3, 1906-Williams indicted
for murder of Patrolma. Petticord.
Oct 20, 19O6-Jury impose = death
penalty on Williams.
Feb 8, 19O7-Wil!iams hanged at
Michigan City.