St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-06-19
Two Men Killed and Five
Wounded, Winchester
Ritles Being Used.
PRES. PENNA is DEAD.
Captain MCMichaels, who
is Well Known on the
Rivers, Murdered.

Meadville, Miss, June 14.-Dr. A
M. Newman, Chancery Court cIer
and former sheriff of Franklin county
was assassinated on the main stree
at 3 O'Clock this afternoon, and in tn
general shooting which followed the at
tack upon DR.. Newman, Silas G. Rey
nolds was killed and DR.. Lenox New
man and Ernest w. Newman, sons o
DIR. A. M. Newman, and H. L. Apple
white, W. L. Boyd and Virgil Far
were wounded.
On April 26 last DIR. Newman killec
Cornelius B. Prichard in stree
battle, in which four others were
wounded. He was acquitted after {
three days trial, which ended May Is
The shooting to-day was a sequel tt
the April affray.
A company of State troops from
Brookhaven, under command of Capt.
E. L. Stein and under the personal
direction of District Attorney J. B.
Webb, is patrolling the town tonight
and guarding the Jail, while Sheriff R.
Jones has a posse in the country after
several alledged participants in the
shooting who escaped.
Lenox Newman, practicing physi-
clan, son of DIR. A. M. Newman, is in
critical condition, and at last reports
was not expected to survive the night.
Ernest w. Newman, deputy Chancery
Court clerk and also son of DIR. A. M.
Newman, was wounded in the right
leg, which was shattered. H. L.
Applewhite, an attorney and mem
of the Prichard faction, is seriously
and perhaps fatally wounded. W. L.
Boyd of the Prichard faction was
wounded in the head, and Virgil Farr,
also a Prichard follower, is reported
to be wounded, but as he and Boyd
made their escape this has not been
verified.
Ernest Newman and Applewhite
were sent to hospital at Natchez for
treatment, after having been placed
under arrest by Sheriff Jones.
L. P. Prichard, an attorney and
brother Of C. B. Prichard, was placed
under arrest by Mayor L. A. Whiting
ton after the shooting. Sam and
Eugene Newman were arrested by
Sheriff Jones and are under guard in
the Jail.
The shooting occurred in and in
front of the Butler building, the lower
floor of which is occupied by the store
of Louis Hollinger. This store adioins
that Of the Meadville Drug Company,
in front of which DIR. Newman killed
Cornelius Prichard last April.
DETAILS OF TRAGEDY.
AS DR.. A. M. Newman was driving
to the courthouse this afternoon about
3 o'clock he was fired upon from
window of a room in the second story
of the Butler building. Slightly wound
ed, DR.. Newman hastily turned his
buggy and leaped from the vehicle
with a shotgun in his hand, backing
off to the corner rapidly in order to
get shot at his assailants.s
AS he came into view again from
under an awning, several more shots,
from revolvers and shotgun, were
fired from the upstairs room.
DR.. Newman returned the fire once
or twice, then staggered toward the
sidewalk and fell dead in front of the
Hollinger store. His mortal wound
was received as he came upon the
sidewalk, fired from a door of the
Butler building, it is believed. He also
received a wound in the top of the
skull from bullet which had been
fired through the tin roof of the avn
ing. He received both buckshot
and revolver bullets.
At the first report, members of the
Prichard and Newman factions sprang
into view from various points nearby
with weapons, drawn, as further
trouble had been expected daily.
Silas G. Reynolds, a Prichard fol-
lower who lived three miles in the
country, is alleged to have been in
the upper room of the Butler building
when the first shot was fired he came
from the exit from the upper floor
and was shot dead as he entered the
Hollinger store. 1t is said that Sam
Newman, son of DR.. A. M. Newman,
who had been shooting from the oppo-
site side of the street with repeating
shotgun, killed Reynolds and also
wounded H. l.. Applewhite, who fell
wounded across Reynolds dead body
moment after the latter was
killed. It is not known whether Apple
white had been shooting.
Ernest Newman ran from the court
house, where he had been working, at
the sound of the firing, with a re-
volver in his hand, and fell wounded
at the foot of the steps, being fired
upon as soon as he appeared. i
Dr. Lenox Newman, it is said, was