The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-26
MURDERER JESSE
COE IS KILLED
Shot Dead by Posse in Ken
lucky Hills as He Aimed
Gun at Sheriff.
GOES INDIANAPOLIS CRIME.
SHOT AND KILLED PATROLMAN
IN RESISTING ARREST-FIND-
ING OF COE WAS AFTER A
LONG SEARCH.

indianapolis, Aug. 26-Jesse Coe
the negro murderer of Patrolman c.
j. Russell Of the Indianapolis police
| force two years ago, was shot and
killed in the hills of Kentucky, TWEEN
| " miles from Tompkinsville, Tuesday
morning. according TO news received
in this city.
| Coe had raised a Winchester rifle
| to his shoulder TO shoot Sheriff Bry-
ant of Monroe county, the foremost
of posse of four who encountered
him in a lonely stretch of woodland
when the sheriff fired and the negro
! fell dead.
According to the story told by the
sheriff, who for almost two years has
| been on the lookout for Coe. a fugi-
tive outlaw with more than $500 re
ward on his head. the death of the
negro was the result of a two days
! search
| Frequently since the visit of Detec.
| tive Chauncey Manning to kentucky
on a search for Coe. Bryant says he
| has received secret information from
| the hills where COe has been in hid.
ing. Frequently, also, he says, he has
slipped away into the mountains with
a companion on hunts for the Indiana,
| polls murderer The hunt he started
! on secretly last Sunday was such a
| one and Bryant says it was on no bet
| ter information as to the negro s
| whereabouts than that he had had pre-
Viously.
| After beating the brush over miles
| of the country. Bryant and his com
| paniOns approached the mountain cab
in home of Mandy Gee, Jesse's moth
er, early Tuesday morning. AS they
| approached they saw a form vanishing
over a nearby knoll, Bryant was on
the verge abandoning the hunt for the
| time, but decided to follow the form.
After circling about the cabin they
| took up the trail in a neck of woods
and in a short time came uDon the
man for whom they had searched so
long. COe was walking rapidly and
| silently through the woods with a
Watchful eye everywhere. Bryant says
| and he was armed with a Winches.
| ter rifle. The grip of a huge revolver
protruded from his belt and the sher
if SAYS he and his companions deter
mined to take no chances Creeping
as close as possible the four men
| brought their own weapons to bear on
! Coe and ordered him to surrender.
No Thought of Surrender.
But to surrender was the farthest
from the thoughts of the outlaw. who
had said he would only go back tc
Indiana as dead negro. Bryant says
Coe took one glance around and
thought it must have told him that he
had no chance. Coe dropped to one
knee and swung his Winchester to his
shoulder, its muzzle directed toward
| the sheriff himself
! His weapon was not fired however
! Bryant fired at once and the weapon
of ]. NJ. Jenkins. one of his deputies
| spoke and Coe fell. Death was instan
famous, the bullets of both men enter
Ing the breast of the negro.
Guarding the Body.
Last night the body of Coe wa:
guarded carefully in the Jail at Tomp
kinsville, for word reached the sheriff
that Goes brothers were to make al
effort to secure possession of it.
According to the calculations of thu
police the body of Coe will reach In
dianapolis tonight about IL o'clock.