The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-02-10
SHOTS FIRED
BY DEPUTIES
Seek to Arrest Bullock
County Negro.
OFFICERS RAIDED RESIDENCE
Deputy Clements Narrowly Escaped
Being Killed.
In Encounter Caused BY Attempt 70
Arrest nm Braey, Negro, RE-
voivers And fchairs Were
Used effectively.
OFFICERS RAIDED RESIDENCE

with blood, one of them j. B. Clements,
bleeding from two large gashes in his
head. brought five battered and SAN
culinary prisoners into the County Jail
about 10 o'clock last night, as the re-
suit OF free-for-aiI fight which De-
putty Clements made while on a raid on
Highland Avenue in search of q negro
wanted on the charge of grand lar
eeny.
Seven shots were fired and it Is be-
Meved that one Of the Immortality wound
ed a negro who escaped. however.
from the officers.
Deputy Clements, while painfully
hurt, suffered no serious injuries. 1t
Is a marvel however, that he was not
killed, as IL Is said that one of the
negro resisting the officers, snapped
revolver In the deputy's face no less
than ten times during the progress OF
the raid. None OF the other deputies
was hurt. although all Of them were In
the fight.
Had not Deputy Clements revolver
been smashed during the fight, II is
more than probable than there would
have been several dead negroes. In
stead there are five badly beaten ones
patched up and lodged In the County
jail, with the charge of resisting an
officer docketed against them.
II is probable that additional war;
rants, win be sworn out against two
or three OF them this morning for as
sault, to murder.
When the party of deputies and their
prisoners reached the Jail about 1890
o'clock last night, surgeon was i'm
snediately summoned to dress Mr..
Clements wounds. 1t was necessary TO
take three stitches in one OF the
gashes. while the other was not re-
garded as so serious. In the fight
Mr. Clements shoulder was also badly
hurt by chair welded by one of the
negro men.
Deputies George Wilson, w. d. Hail,
Frank Pettus. Walter Worthy and J.
y. Clements. learning that the negro,
L w. johnson, mentioned in the warrant
from Bullock County was at 218 High
land Avenue. started after him.
The raidiHg party surrounded the
house on all. sides. Deputy Clements
taking the rear. One Of the deputies
knocked at the front door demanding
admittance in the name Of the law.
There was at first no response from
thelinmates OF the house, but as soon
as the DEPUTIES tried to break in the
front door the fight commenced.
Deputy Clements, pushed open the
back door about the time those in front
commenced battering. and as be, did 30
negro woman snapped q revolver
several times in his face. The revolt
yer failed to fire and to this fact the
deputy owes his life.xThe negress then
slammed the door in his face and for
the second time the DEPUTY broke It
open,e
He entered the hallway, and as he
did 50 was hit over the head and
shoulder with heavy chair. The blow
glanced somewhat and put hts revolver
out of commission. The second blow
of the chair knocked the deputy to the
floor. and again the negress snapped
the loaded revolver in his face. 1t
again failed to fire. ~,
The negress then threw away the
worthless revolver and commenced
lighting with chair as a weapon! four
other negroes joining in with chairs
as weapons. When the deputies on the
outside and front of the house went to
the assistance of Mr.. Clements the me-
gro really wanted escaped, supposedly
through one Of the rear windows, being
aided in doing so by the darkness and
the rain which was falling.
All Of the negroes fighting Deputy
Clements were promptly pinned to the
floor and hanucuffed. but 1t took the
combined efforts Of all the deputies to
turn the trick. The whole fight lasted
probably about ten minutes. During
that short while the deputy was being
pounded over the head and shoulders
with a chair in the hands of a negro
boy or girl.
That the night was fierce one Is evil
denced by the condition OF the room
and adjoining hallway. The bed was
covered with blood and the surrounding
floor was covered with the remains of
FIVE broken chairs, some crockery. and
over all the room are pools of blood.
An old man, who looks, from his
gray hairs. to be at least so years old,
fought the hardest, according to the
h. Awmk - Il
been broken, he Is described as being
flend. and was only subdued by being
choked and handcuffed. This old me-
gro Is the most battered of all the
prisoners
A. second trip to the place was made
last night about 1880 o'clock by the
deputies, accompanied by Sheriff Hood
after the two escapes. The trip was
fruitless. The sheriff was told by
little negro boy who still remained in
the house. that jerry Phillips. husband
of the woman who tried to shoot
Deputy Clements, one sof the es-
capped negroes. had returned to the
house shortly after the deputies re-
turned to town for the first trip. The
little boy said that he had gone TO a
house near by. but the deputies could
find no trace of him.
The little negro boy who Informed
. the deputies of the supposed where
dOouAs OF Fhill1ps, one OF the escapes
from the first raid. offered to show the
officers where the negro went. He said
that It was cold outside and he was in
his bare feet. Sheriff Hood then offered
to carry the little negro, and proceeded
to lift him up on his shoulders. With
the sheriff and the little negro leading
the way. the second house was entered,
to no purpose.
A third trip was made after midnight
to the house at which the deputies
made their second attempt to capture
job nson, with the result that three more
negroes were arrested. They are Jerry
Phillips. who was in the fight at the
house on Highland Avenue. and hus-
hand of the negress who attempted to
shoot Deputy Clements: Calop Walker
and Alfred Johnson. All are charged
with resisting an oficer.
The third trip was made on account
OF the story told the sheriff at the Jail
after he got warm and comfortable.
The sheriff and his deputy were as
sisted on this last trip by Police Of
hcers Searcy and Patrick. The police
department also sent the patrol wagon
after the three prisoners.
The sheriff later brought the little
negro to the county Jail, where he was
kept for the night before the FIRE, in
company with the TALLER.
In speaking of the fight last night
while the surgeon was dressing his
wounds, Deputy Clements said that he
had been serving for the past seven
years as deputy and had made many