Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-08
last NEGRO SHOT TO
DEATH IN SWAMP
AS Result Of Trouble Growing tut OF
Dispute Over Wages Considerable
Blood is Shcd-Two White Men
and Three Colorcd Are Slain and
Others Expected to Die.
CBy Associated Press,

/ TAMPA. FLA. March WIN
! three negroes dead as a result of race
riot in the neighborhoOd of Pal
metto yesterday, the wrath of the
residents in that section seems TO be
, assuaged
/ The sum total of deaths Is three
negroes and two white men, with one
white man in the emergency hospital
here with a bullet hole through his
g head.
The last of the three negroes i'm
plicated in the murder of the two
deputies and the fatal wounuing OF
the third, was lynched at dusk this
afternoon in the palmettOs on the
banks of the Manatee river. lie had
fallen asleep and when he awoke was
gazing into the barrels of dozen
rifles aud shot guns. Even then he
showed resistance ana reached for
bis rife. In a second he WAS riddled
with bullets.
Dead and Wounded.
The dead:
Samuel Stribbling, contractor 5
superintendent, Tampa.
| Deputy Sheriff Edward Matthew'S.
Wade Ellis, negro.
Sam Ellis. negro.
Unknown negro.
Probably fatally injured:
Deputy sheriff j. b. Morgan.
Seriously injured;
Deputy Sheriff Max Burnette.
What Caused Trouble.
The trOuUse. which has resulted
thus fatally grew out of a dispute
Sunday between Stribbling aud a
negro named Rudy" over wages.
Rudy shot and killed Stumbling and
Sunday night Deputy Sheriff Mat
thews was killed by either Rudy or
one Of the Ellis negroes when the
officer. at the head of a posse. had
surrounded a house TO which blood
hounds and trailed the murderer Ci
Stribbling.
The country was aroused and hun
dreds Of citizens. heavily armed have
! secured the country for the past "a
hours. Tonight several hundred OF
the men came into Palmetto, the
scene of the first killing and reported
that the two Ellis negroes. brothers
and Rudy had been killed and their
, riddled bodies left in the swamps.
At day break Deputies Morgan and
Burnett. who were placed on guard
at bridge. saw the two negroes ap
! preaching and commanded them "a
halt. For answer the negroes opened
. fire and Deputy Morgan fell MORALLY
wounded. Sam Ellis seized the fallen
, mans gun and raised II to fire on
Burnett. Burnett was TO quick and
shot the negro through the head
This shot was not fatal. The otheI
negro opened f-e On Burnette and
one Of the bullets took of his lower
liz. When the Gesperado had emptied
his gun. he disappeared in the
swamp. Burnett tied the wounded
negro to tree and carried his fei
low officer 10 a nearby hose.
A shcr, time later the posse ar
rived and after learning Of what the
negroes had done. riddled sam Ellis
with bullets. After shooting tho
Delro To death. plans we're laid foI
the capture Of the other brother. Tho
posse. composed Of several hundred
men. was diviacd so that a GORDON ol
heavily armed men was drawn
around the swamp where the negro
took refuge.
The ncAro Rudy was Killed single
handed by HEM WasSanc. mem
b-r 81 the shcriG's posse last night
IN the edge Of swamp near the
! lcCFo's house. His body vas found
this afternoon.
:. u. Morgan was brought 10 Tampa
tonight ana placed in ,nc cmcrEenc,
hospital Physicians say his condi
fiCn Is hopeless.
Telephone reports from Palmetto
7 tonight bring tLc information tha
{ every ferry boat coming across th'
river from the section where ~
b. trouble occurred. is landed - capac
b ry with blacks getting away from
The scene Labor Is very much &c
b moraiizcd ana crops viii suffer u
b Consequence. NJ FATHER trouble
Anticipated.