The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-04
WALKS OUT OF BARN AND
GIVES HIMSELF UP TO
SHERIFF FLANAGAN.
PREPARATION TO DYNAMITE
DESPERATE SAW THAT THE
GAME WAS UP-SHERIFF
BRINGING HIM TO JAIL.

REALIZING THAT FURTHER
RESISTANCE WOULD BE USELESS
FRANK JOHNSON, THE NEGRO
MURDERER, WALKED OUT OF
THE YATES BARN, SURROUNDED
BY THE POSSE OF OFFICERS,
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT
2:3O O'CLOCK, AND SURRENDER
ED TO SHERIFF FLANAGAN WHO
PUT HIM IN IRONS AND STARTED
TOWARD THE COUNTY JAIL.
Surrounded by the deputies of the
posse, numbering nearly one hund-
red, and followed by crowd of prob
ably two hundred more, Frank John
son, colored, the murderer of Beu-
lah Martin, colored, is being rushed
to the county jail in this city from
the Yates farm.
Johnson is being brought here by
way Of coburn's creek road. then
the West Milford pike down by the
old fair grounds into the city, and
the sheriff with his prisoner and
mounted men and others composing
the capturing and escorting party are
expected to arrive at the county jail
at about 1880 or O'Clock at the lat
est.
At press time this afternoon there
was a large crowd Of people lined
Main street here in the neighborhood
of the jail and the arrival of the sher-
iff with his outlaw prisoner may re-
suit in a demonstration against the
negro. but presence of mind and
moderation are counselled. Doubt
less the gathering of the crowd is
merely through curiosity.
at 2:SO O'Clock in the afternoon the
Telegram received the information
over telephone from the Yates farm
on Sycamore creek that Sheriff Finn
ngan and his posse had decided 10
dynamite the barn In order to capture
the negro murderer Frank johnson
ana had set about making prcpara-
tions 10 that end.
Yelling defiantly from his log bara
fort, Frank johnson, the negro muir
derer cried to the big posse of men
surrounding him on the Yates farm
on Sycamore cvreek Wednesday af-
ternoon about 1880 o'clock that he
would not be4 4ta4ken alive and that
he would resist the posse to the death
Shelff Flanagan was then undecided
as to whether the barn shall be fred
or blown to pieces with dynamite
and is consulting further with the
posse. The barn is estimated to he
worth about 800. the cows about
$3.50, and the farming implements
and other material worth about $50
more. There are nearly hundred
deputies on duty and it is thought il
would be about as cheap to destroy
the barn as it would be to keep the
posse on hand for a long sclge to
starve the negro out OF the place,
This would be some time. as Johnson
could subsist from milk from the
cows for several days
Three men OF the posse that Is try
ing to capture Frank johnson, the
negro murderer, in log barn on the
Yates farm on Sycamore creek, nine
miles from the city, were shot by him
in attacks made this morning. but
they were not seriously wounded.
The wounded are:
JAMES wAMsLEY, farmer, shot in
the arm.
II. CORK. farmer. wounded in arm.
- 8IATHENIsY. a school teach.
er, shot in the head but not ser.
iously.
johnson was chased into the barn
last night just after dark and thl
building was Immediately surrounded
by officers. At 9 o'clock squad oi
officers and men. including Constable
c. L. Ford, Special Constable Ulysses
Edgell and other specially sworn dep
uties. headed by Sheriff Flanagan
went to the Yates place and joined
the party that surrounded the barn.
sherlff Flanagan approached near
enough to ye1 at the fugitive inside