Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-25
CRAzEO NEGRO WOUNDS q
CITIZENS OF MONROE, La,
FINALLY KILL HIM.
Then His Body Is Hanged in the
Street and Later Burned
With Oil.

MONROE. La August 25.-Whatever
drove William Way to attempt whole
sale murder yesterday-whether he was
wildly drunk or craZed by cocaine, to
which he was addicted or maddened by
a lust for blood-no man can know.
Without the slightest provocation Way.
a negro from Pine Bluff, Ark. armed
himself with a double barreled shotgun
and fired at every man he saw. He
wounded twenty-one, three mortally
probably. before he fell dead, a bullet
through his heart. To add ignominy to
Ways death the infuriated citizens
hanged his body then burned it.
Way. with his shotgun and with his
pockets full of shells, which, luckily for
those he tried to kill. were loaded with
small shot. took. a position at 8 o'clock
yesterday morning at the side entrance
Of the Bank of Monroe. at Grand and
Gerard streets. in the city's business CEN
ter. When J. ]. Jordan. the cashier. ar
rived TO open the bank. Way without
threat or warning. shot at him. He
missed Mr.. Jordan. but the load of shot
tore off the arm of George Mccormack
of the Quachita Lumber Company. whose
lumber mill as it CHANGED, was destroyed
by fire Monday.
The shotgun's report brought running
in the street the business men of the
vicinity: as well as Mayor A. A. For
sythe. Deputy Sheriff T. A. Grant and
Policeman Hugh Biggar. Way fired on
them indiscriminately AS often as he
fired he retreated in the entrance and
reloaded with incredible swiftness. then
reappeared and fired again. Deputy
Sheriff Grant and Policeman Biggar
rushed at him: Way. who seemed as cool
If he were shooting at target
dropped Grant with one barrel the load
in his neck and breast: with his second
barrel he brought down Biggar He and
Grant will die. probably.
Armed Men in Windows.
Men in nearby windows and doorways
hastily armed themselves and opened
fire on Way. He wounded Mayor For
sythe who bravely stood in the street
crying:
Bring me a shotgun. bring me a
shotgun
Some thrust a pistol in the mayors
hand. and, wounded as he was, he took
deliberate aim and emptied it at Way;
Biggar, hurt unto death, rested on his
elbow and. emptied his revolver at the
negro. Mr.. Stannard, manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
fired shot after shot. Dan Mcleod.
across the street from the bank. in the
second story of the Masur building.
where he is employed, took careful aim
again ana again at Ine numerous DldcK.
who disappeared, appeared again. and
shot as cooly as if he were at a pigeon
match.
He sent load of shot full In the breast
of Simon Marks. who was at the door of
his brothers store across the street.
Others whom he wounded are Ed Strong
of the Southern Express Company, over
the left eye, not dangerous; r. r. Ross,
L. l.. Haas. Steve Burke. Joe Thompson,
Fred McGrath. Albert Grenley, Manuel
Abromowitz. Albert Marx, C. E. Bynum.
jr.. ]. L.. Kendall, d. G. Trousdale,
newspaper man; j. W. Merriman, Adolph
Baer, Mr. Ensill. E. P. Davies, Martin
Brown. d. A. Preard, jr., president of
the police jury, and Henry Abrams.
He Is Hit at Last.
The door facings of the buildings on
the two corners opposite were perforated
by shots from the demoniac negro's gun;
bullets from the pistols of his multiple
adversaries perforated the plate glass
windows of the bank and of the New
South drug store next to it. Half hun
dred shots had been fired at Way, when
he dropped his gun. clasped his hands
over his heart and pitched headlong down
the steps to the pavement.
With fierce. triumphant yells men rush
ed to him; he was stone dead. They
strung him up to the iron rod of the
awning before the drug store then drag
ged his body to nearby lot, threw it on
pile of kerosene soaked rubbish and
cremated it. Mayor Forsythe and Sheriff
Parker begged the citizens not to burn
the body. but were ignored. Until rage
cooled there was wild talk of taking
in Monroe. AS it is. every negro prob
ably will be dSarmed