The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-10
SHERIFF AND POSSE
 CLEARED BY JURY Shooting of Negro Bandits Is
 Decided Justifiable LONG HUNT FOR GANG Third Negro Has Been Surrounded in n Swamp and Will He Killed or Cap fured By the Posse in Pursuit
LONG HUNT FOR GANG

Huntsville, October 9.-(Special )-Coro- her Laughlin impanelled jury today and investigated the killing of Joe and Ben Chandler, negro bandits. who were shot to death by Sheriff Mitchell and his posse this morning. The jury found that the killing was justifiable.
 Ed Black a third member of the gang, has been surrounded in a swamp near Madison and will be killed or captured
 The encounter took place in the South ern railway cut at Elco, five miles west of here, at o'clock this morning.
 The hunt for the three negro despera- does has been continuous since within an hour after the highway robbery near Merrimack Thursday, and it has been one of the most exciting that the officers of Madison county have ever engaged in. Several encounters have been had with the men, and each time they fired on their pursuers.
 At midnight last night negro farmer telephoned Sheriff Mitchell that the three highwaymen had come to his place to spend the night in his barn. Instead of remaining in the barn the fugitives went on through to the railroad and formed an ambuscade for the posse that they knew would follow them. They took posi- ton in a pocket in the cut above the rall- road Sheriff Mitchell made up a party composed of himself. Deputies Erie Mil Ter, Wheeler Mitchell, Horace Strong and N. L. Pierce and Possemen lamar, Ma ples, Edwards and Sfbley, and went to the scene in an automobile They dis mounted at the railroad and walked right on toward the ambuscade, but one of the etr ,olr ltrrl,t nd position. The posse surrounded the spot and by the fiickering light the negroes were seen with their weapons ready. Sheriff Mitchell called to them to surren- der and the answer was a shot point blank at Deputy Miller. The fight was on then, and about fifty shots were fired All of the negroes fell, but Black got ur and made off in the darkness, leaving a trail of blood behind him. He is known to be desperately wounded.
 The Chandler negroes are escaped con victs from both Alabama and Tennessee prisons. They started their career of crime here last Wednesday by robbing the Mooring store at Ryland.
 New Paper to He Established
 Charles D. Lane, former publisher of the Evening Tribune of this city, has gone to Courtland, where he will form a stock company and establish new weekly newspaper There is only one paper in Lawrence county at present, that being printed in Moulton. The new paper will be democratic in politics, with local option as side issue.
 Union Depot Favored
 The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis and Southern railroad officials seem to be in a fair way of coming to an agree ment for the establishment of union depot in Huntsville. As the result of 6 recent conference here, General Agent Cooper of the Southern and Superintend ent Hicks of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis. expressed themselves strongly in favor of the project The Southern station will probably be re- modelled, large train shed built and both railroads will use it.
 Will Study Typhoid
 Surgeon General Wyman, writing Con- gressman Richardson in response to a request that he send an expert here to consider the fever situation. states that Past Assistant Surgeon L. l.. Lumsden, who has spent his life in the study of typhoid will come to Huntsville within few days to make an investigation as to the amount and source of pollution of the water supply.