The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-25
WOMAN'.S COLLEGE HALL
 COMPLETEL Y DESTROYED
MOB BURNS NEGRO
 WHO GOES AMUCK
After Wounding Twenty-nine Men, Black Fiend Is Dropped by We'll Placed Bullet and Body Is Soaked With Oil
 and Burned.

of having taken cocaine.
 Wade came to Monroe recently from Pine Bluff, Ark. He was accompanied by several other negroes and they commenced to make trouble for the local police soon after they arrived. It was alleged that they were members of . society in Arkansas which had as its object revenge for all injuries done the black race. As a result these negroes clashed with the police on many occasions and twice recently they have exchanged shots with ofh- cers. It was also alleged that Wade was heard to say that no white man was going to shoot him. No more at. tention was paid to him, however. un- til he started on his wild rampage today.
 Bought Bird Shot.
 At the store where Wade bought the box of shells the clerk says that the negro asked for buckshot. He gave him birdshot by mistake. This mis- take probably saved the lives of score of men.
 The negro. after purchasing the gun. took a position in the arcade in the Bank of Monroe at Grant and Desiard Streets, the most prominent corner In the city His first shot was dinected at !. I. Jordan, cashier of the bank, who was approaching the building He missed Jordan. but the load struck George Mccormick. who was close enough to the negro to have his arm badly shattered, in spite of the small shot. It may beSnecessary to amputate the arm.
 The first shot brought many mer- chants and clerks out on the street and the negro then began to Ire in their direction. As fast as he discharged his gun. he would step back into the arcade. reload. rs-appear and rsnew his fire,
 The second man wounded was Dep uty Sheriff Grant, who was shot be- fore he could draw a weapon. Simon Marks. of Tuskegee. Ala, came out of his brothers clothing store to see what the trouble was and received a load of shot in the breast. Patrolman Bigger, who had been attracted by the shoot- ing. ran toward Wade and was shot down, but arose and emptied his re- yolver at the negro. It is believed that one or more of Bigger's shots took ef- feet. The negro continued to fire into the crowd, wounding many of them, when Mayor Forsythe, Manager Ed Iwara etannArd of the local Western I E;nlon ,ofice. and Daniel McLeod came I'D Aszd returned tho nre. Wade fins aily falling as a result Of the fatal WOuNu An thC hO0h1
 After the body Of the negro had been cut down from the pole on which 1t was swung. ja crowd of men and boys proposed that it should be burned. It had already been dragged to a nearby square and coal oil poured over 1t. when Mayor Forsythe went to the square and demanded that the body be turned over to the authorities He was courteously waved aside and the torch was applied. In few minutes nothing remained but heap of ashes and bones.
 Several hours later Tom Milford. c negro, was shot in a lunch room near the city market house. It Is not def initely konwn whether or not this shooting formed any sequel to the dis orders earlier in the day. Nobody knew anything after the shooting except that somebody" had shot negro The wound is not regarded as danger ous.