Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-22
RACE RIOTS.
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searching FOR the Negro. Members OF
the Citizens Guard were posted ln
places where riots We're feared. the
homes of Negroes were placed under
watch. tWhile no demonstrations oc-
Cured in these quarters the city jail
became the point CT attention for the
excited men who formed the nucleus
of the mob.
The trail of Mrs. Johnson's assailant
was followed nv bloodhounds to a deep
ravine near Rutledge mining camp
three miles from Ottumwa, but there
it was lost Armed men searched the
country alItlay and far into the night.
While this work was going on the
crowd around the city Jail continued TO
grow in size Threats were maize freely
against the Negro Junkln and the po-
lice became alarmed for his safety. 10
ward the night they took HIM out OF
the Jail by a rear door, placed MN IN
an automobile and took him to Chilli
colhe. 10 miles west where he was put
aboard Burlington passenger train
and taken to Abba and locked up.
The trouble started again when
searchers began to bring in suspects
CO ,tured in the surrounding country
The mob contented itself with yeiiins
its hate and the first. second and thlrd
suspects We're taken into the city jail.
The police had been provided with
q good descriptions of the guilty Negro
by Mrs. Johnston and after each man
was brought in they announced to the
crowd that the men captured mad no
part in the crime. When the fourth
was was hustled into the county jail
the mob again became FESTIVE.
Come on, boys; let's get someone the
police are fooling u.s." cried man in the
crowd. There was a movement toward
the ial Cries of hate came from all
parts of the crowd. 1t was the moment
for the leader and the battering ram,
| but the leader was not there. The on
slausht never got beyond words. News
| of the searching parties coming in fire.
ouently served to quiet the agitation OF
the crowd at times while at other pc
RODS reports that Mrs Johnston, who
| has been an invalid for years, was dying
of her injuries famed again the flame
of lawlessness There We're many of So
Der minds in the crowd and these argued
| with the more violent to give the police
a chance. AS darkness came the less
| vengeful went home and apparently the
danger of lynching was over fox the
| time.
Although the Staying of Clara Rosen
| whose dead body was found in an aban-
| doned excavation of a house, the head
beaten to pulp with a rock, first reused
the mob spirit which spread over the
town today when the attack on Mrs
| Johnston became known, there have been
| a number of assaults on white women
by Negroes within the last two years
| that contributed to arouse OttulWans.
| At 9 O'Clock tonight two more Ne
groes We're brought to the city jail
through d crowd which blocked the
streets solidly for two blocks. There
| were cries of lynch them" but the
| threats were made largely by boys.
| The mob seems willing to await def
| lite news that the police have arrest
| cd the guilty man and there is little
doubt that the spreading OF this news
| would arouse the mob to action. Ply
sicians attending Mrs. Johnston say
that she will probably recover. They
say that the tiendish attack with the
curtail pole did not injure the woman
| Internally. although there is danger OF
| Blood poison from larcerated wounds.
Commercial travellers tonight sub
scribed a purse Of $1,000 as a reward
| for tie arrest and conviction of the
assalants Of Mrs. Johnston.