The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02
MAY BE A LYNCHING
CIT9zENs or VINEGAR BEND ARE
 AROUSED.
Abe Sumraf, Desperate Negro, Con- fesses to Hayfng Killed Julio Baex, Popular Young
 Cuban.

Mobile. Nov. 1.--fSpeciaL)- )--Abe Sumran, the negro who murdered Julio
 Baez, a Cuban. near Vinegar Bend
 Monday morning. for whom a posse has been searching ever since. was located and captured yesterday afternoon in
 his mothers house. eighteen miles east of Yellow Pine.
 When the posse surrounded the house in which the desperate negro was hiding, Horace Turner, a member of the Yellow Pine Lumber Company and weli-known in Mobile, started to enter the house. Snmrail drew a pis- tol and attempted to shoot Turner.
 Before he could fire. however, Turner
 himself drew a pistol and shot the me-
 just below the heart Eumrall was
 then brought to Vinegar Bend, where the is today being held for a prelfmfn-
 ary hearing. He admits having killed
 young Baez.
 Sumrall was locked up at Vinegar
 Bend last night shortly after o'clock.
 A short time before the posse who had
 the negro in charge arrived at Vine
 gar Bend, a mob of considerable size
 appeared in the town swearing ven-
 geanee on the negro. Conservative
 citizens allege that they fully believe
 the negro would have been iynched in
 short order had he been in the stock
 ade at the time the ,spob was in the town. Before the al 'saranee of the
 posse with tSumraIG-ls> sever, the mob had left tho town. xc
 Several of the most coifservati*e eiti- zens of Vinegar Bend are in the city today. They state that they believe there Is a probability that the negro will be lynched tonight. Many of the citizens of Vinegar Bend and the sur rounding country openly made threats that the negro would be burned alive tonight. An effort to have the negro removed to some other town is being made to prevent trouble.
 Young Baez came to his death as the result of @ theft on the-part of Sumrall, who has a reputation as a desperate negro. Baez was member of the Mo- bile and Ohio bridge gang, which was stationed at Vinegar Bend Monday morning. Sumrall stole suit case be- longing to Baez. As the train bearing the gang moved north soon after the theft, Sumrall was passed walking along the railroad track, carrying in his hand Baezs suit case. He dropped the suit case and disappeared. A short search by the members of the gang failed to locate him and young Baez, armed with pistol was left to con- tinue the search.
 When the gang returned to Vinegar Bend Monday night, nothing had been heard of young Baez or the negro. Search was immediately instituted for both. Finally, a portion of the posse called at a negro house where it was learned that Sumrall had slept Monday night and had told where he had killed Baez. The body of the young Cuban was found shortly afterwards. This was yesterday morning shortly after o'clock.
 Death had come to the young man as a result of a pistol wound, inflicted from behind. The bullet pierced the body through and through, and death was probably almost instantaneous - After the body of Baez was sent back to Vinegar Bend, the posse continued to search for Sumrail. It's search was yesterday afternoon when the negro was found in his mothers house a little more than eighteen miles east of Yellow Pine. He was suffering from a pistol shot wound. which he states was inflicted by young Baez.
 When 1t was learned that the negro was in the house, the posse surround ed the place and Horace Turner, of the Yellow Pine Lumber Company. forced the front door of the house and started to enter. Just as he crossed the threshold of the door, Sumrall who was standing near the. door, drew a pistol and attempted to fire twice. The failed to explode either time, and before the negro could make a third attempt. he was felled to the floor with a bullet from the pistol in Turner's hand. The bullet entered the left breast inflicting a serious wound.
 The negro was then taken to Vinegar Bend reaching that town late last night. He admits having shot young Baez, but claims that 1t was done in fight over the possession of Baez' pistol.
 The body of young Baez was brought to Vinegar Bend immediately after 1t was found by the posse. It was inter- red yesterday evening.