The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-30
REEDS BODY BURNED
INFURIATED MOB DIG UP NEGRO's
 CORPSE.
Blacks of Best Element h Vicinity ol Crime Ask to Cooperate With Authorities h Rest0r.
 ing Order.

Crisfeld. Md. July 29.-Their pas sion unsatisled by the kicking and beating to death of the negro Reed who on Saturday evening without provocation shot and killed Policeman Daugherty who had Reeds associate William Hildred, under arrest. a mob at an early hour this morning dug Reeds mutilated corpse from the rude grave in the swamp where 1t had been thrown, riddled 1t with bullets and then lighting a bonfire. tossed the body into the flames and stood about watch ing until 1t was reduced to ashes.
 Lemuel Showers, the keeper of a
 billiard room frequented by hegro~
 who loaned Reed the revolver with
 which he shot Daugherty, was captured today and lodged in the County jail at
 Princess Anne County. Every train
 arriving at Crisfield was searched in
 the hope that Showers would be found on board. Had he been. he would al-
 most surely have been lynched, for there has been much trouble with law less negroes and the feeling against such is very high. Hildred, whose ar rest precipitated the trouble. has not been captured. When he is. the au- thorities will undoubtedly keep him surely meet fate similar to Reeds. There has been no adverse criticism of the treatment given Reed. Those who put an end to his life, strung his body up to a telegraph pole and after the inquest inferred him in the swamp yes- terday did their work throughout with no attempt at concealment. It was Ifo party of masked men but a band of citizens whose patience had been tried too far by the lawless negroes of this locality. Even among the colored race the work of the lynchers met approval Today the town council was waited up on by a delegation representing the best colored element of the vicinity and including all the local colored min isters and a colored physician. They asked to be allowed to cooperate with the white citizens in restoring order and proper feeling between whites and blacks. They presented resolutions expressing regret for the murder of Daugherty and condemning the deed and saying they would have been will ing to join in the hunt for him and lynching him when he was captured.
 The Council has acted upon some of these successions. Nine negro joints" have been closed. The police justices have been instructed to apply the heaviest possible penalty to convicted negro law-breakers and hereafter ali strange negroes are to be required on the day of their arrival in town to state their business and to secure per- mission from the authorities to re- main; failing in which they are to be arrested and sent to the house ofvcor- rection as vagrants. A large number of special officers have been sworn in and are on duty with a view to pre- venting further trouble between whites and blacks.
 Feeling Is still high. Post card pic lures Of the scenes of the lynching have appeared and are selling rapidly. Pieces of the rope by which Reed was suspended to the telegraph pole brings fancy prices. Some attacks are said to have been made on the homes of me- groes, some of whom are said to have been roughly used. Few negroes are to be seen on the streets.