Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-25
With A Double barrelel
Shot Gun Shoots at Every
White Mar In Sight.
BODY BURNED
IN PUBLIC
Bconged to Society Seeking
Revenge For lnjusticcs
Done Black Race.

Monroe, Ga. Aug. 25.-Angered,
At is believed. because two OF his
friends had been sho. by police Of
ficers in this city. William s. Wade.
n negro, ran dmucK on the priac,
pal business stree OF Monroe late
yesterday with double -barreled
shot gun. shooting first at every
white man he saw and then firing
Unfortunately 81 every object he
fore him The fire was returned
and the negro finally fell dead with
a bullet throngn hs heart. bur not
before twenty-uine meu. three OF
them members OF his own race, hid
been more or less seriously wounded.
Wades body was publicly burned
after 1t had been cut down from
pole on which t hund for half an
hour or more ef5or he was killed
An investigation by the police
showed that wien Wade purchas 4
the shot gun aud box of shells
few inmates hafof2 he orened Are on
the lirst n1an. tia' tberf wa noth'1g
unusual in his n2nntr or behavior
OtOher negroes W were with him
in the morning sa3 that he had not
been drinking rd did he show any
evidence of hav:aB taken cocaine.
Wade came to Nionroe recently
from Pine Bluff, Ark. He was ac-
companied by sdgcrSl other negroes
and they commenced to make trou-
BILE for the .ocaI police soon after
they arrived. II vas alleged that
they were members OF a society In
Arkansas which mad as it's object re-
venge for all Injuries done the black
race. As a resi- It, these negroes
clashed with the police on many oc-
casions and twice recently they have
exchanged sh0Js with officers. III
was alleged TIA, Wade was heard to
say that that no white man was going
to shoot him. No more attention
was paid to nm. however, until he
started on his wild rampage yester-
day.
At the store where Wade bought
the box of sh Ills the clerk says that
the negro asked for buckshot He
gave him bird GEot by mistake. This
probably saved tn elves Of a score or
more of men.
The negro, after purchasing the
gun, took a posiuon I'm the arcade
OF the Bank Of Monroe al Grand and
Desiard streets, the most prominent
corner in the city His first shot
was directed at : j. Jordan. cashier
OF the bank, who wa. approaching
the building. lie missed Jordan
but the load struck George McCo--
mack, who was close enough 20 the
negro TO have his arm bodily snatter-
ed. I'D spite Of The small shot.
The first shot brought many men
on the street and the negro then be-
gan 90 Ere ln thor direction.
fast as be DISCHARGED mis- gun be
would step back into the arcade. &C.
load, reappeIr tud renew bis fire
Patroimau bigger, who had been
attracted by no s'i,'tng, ran toward
Wade and WAS shot down, but arose
and empted his revolver az the negro
Tho neg-o continued to fire into the
crowd wounding many of them.
when Mayor Forsythc, Manager Stan
uard OF the local Western Union
Telegraph Office, and Daniel Mcleod
came up and returned the fire. Wade
rinally falling as a result Of the fatal
wound in the heart
After the body OF the negro had
been cut down from q pole ON which
30 was swung "a crowd OF men and
boys proposed that 30 should bc
burned. II had already been drag
g'd to a nearby square and coal oil
poured over t when Mayor Forsythe
went TO the square and demanded
that thc body be turned over to- the