The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-08-19

ling on little Nita Powell There is
much grumbling against the mayor
who, in spite of his protestations is
believed To have been instrumental in
getting the negro out of the city,
Searching parties are quietly trying
to learn the whereabouts of the negro
and when they find him there is likely
TO be something doing.
STORY OF THE CRIME.
tPaducah News Democrat)
For an alleged beastly attempt 70
criminally assault Nlta Powell, fra,i
l2year-old girl, a daughter of Mr.. and
| Mrs. A. l.. Powell, of l0ll South Fifth
street. shortly before day Sunday
morning, viii Hornsby a negro inn
portation from Cairo, H., 80 years
old. was saved from a mob of good
citizens sunday night, only by beins
miles from Paducah. The behavior
and determination of the mob was
stronger than that OF the negro
which was extremely bold and helm
Gus. While nothing appears OF the
| surface the mob was 50 we'll orgauiz
ed that Mill Hornsby. general bad
negro and eN-conyict Is not yet out OF
| danger. He was identified without q
! hitch by his intended victims father
and If the declarations of paduca
negroes can be counted on they are
ready to volunteer their services at
the Strengthening OF Hornsby, whom
! they know as a bad negro from Cairo
with n criminal record. who has made
| padueah his hangout for many
months. He was sent to the Eddy
willie prison from Paducah and since
| his return his main livelihood is al
| tending Republican conventions. At
least that is what other negroes say.
A. l.. Powell and his family, con
sisting of wife and daughter. Nitl,
and six year old son, Tommy live
at 1911 South Fifth street The
! father IS sturdy city mail carrier
Two weeks ago a neighbor who had
the pistol When the family retired
Saturday night Powell laid his pocket
knife on the dresser in his room, All
were slumbering soundly at $40
O'Clock Sunday morning. when a No.
gro. whose nakedness was covered
only by single garment top Goa,
cut a slit in the screen OF rear
door and noiselessly walked in the
house in his bare feet
Nita and Tommie slept together
The parents slept in the adjoining
room Tommie is a restless sleeper
and often losses in his bed, and when
the negro touched her roughly sha
thought it was her little brother and
she cried "get away Tommie" At
this the negro pressed his hand upon
/ her throat. but not till she had
screamed which aroused her father.
Powell rushed into the room and he
saw the negro half clad crawl Under
the bed. the negro knew he had been
seen and came forth to seek safety in
dash from the room. Powell
lunged with the knife. the negro
lodged and ran out the door, Powell
followed. The father figured the ne
gr1 would take to the right side of the
house. but he guessed wrong The ne
gro went to the left and gained dis
lance For the rear fence the negro
raced. As he hurled over to the alley
Powell made a final swing at him
with the knife. but unfortunately miss
ed. Up the alley dotted with negro
cabins, Hornsby ran. Powell was
afraid to follow on account of the
many negroes the alley held.
Returning to his house he was made
glad to find that his little girl had es.
capped the terrible purpose of the
| loathsome negro. Then he tele
phoned the alarm to police head
quarters. Lieutenant Potter hurried
/ Patrollmen Doyle Franklin, Clark.
Morris. Starre't and Moore on nearby
beats TO the scene: while Patrollmen
Terrell ami Bremen made a hurried
run in the patrol wagon. Up the alley
/ the cops pushed. Almost the first ne
gro door they threw open the sight
OF a painting negro. garmented in al
single shirt. met them. VIII Horns
by was jostled from his bed that was
yet un-warmed He had the Identical
shirt. with a tell-tale patch in the
back near the shoulders. that both
Powell and the frail victim had no
ticed Besides fresh broken blades of
grass and weeds and cinders were
clinging between Hornsbys toes and
feet. The grass and cinders came
from Powell's yard. With whites of
the eyes glazing Hornsby was dragged
TO the door of the Powell home.
That's the negro" said Powell. as
he shook with anger Although in a
bad way from fright little Nita was
as sure as her father that Hornsby
was the negro.
To the station the negro was hur-
ried. Not until he was inside Of &
cell did he get a chance to dress.
The cops appeared like they were
bringing in monkey in the place OF
human.
Long before church time good men