The Sentinel=record., 1910-02-20
NEGRO DEPUTIES OF CAIRO SEER. EFF TELL OF THE KILLING
 OF HALLIDAY.
Coroner's Jury Developments Renew the Race Prejudice and Further Outbreak Is Expected any
 Moment.

Cairo, Ill., Feb. Statements by four negro special deputy sheiffs on the witness stand this afternoon in the coroners investigation Of the kIll- ing of Alexander Halliday. that they fired several shots each in the mob that was demanding admission to the county jail and court house, Tuhrs- day night, has renewed the anunegro agitation and the situation here to- night is acute
 Three hundred miluamen began patrolliug the streets at dusk toni-ht in anticipation of trouble through demonstrations against negroes or at- tacks on their property
 The town is practically under mar- tial law, although Adjutant General Dickson says the cisi lauthorties will remain in control unless there is a new outbreak
 Squads of soldiers are seen every. where tonight about the st-ee,a while the court house has ben tuned into slepi g quarters for Che four militia companies
 The coroneI's inquest re olycd itsell into more oA a grand jury quiz instead ot formal pro eeding before a cor onor The jury composed of business men could hardly restrain itself when the neg. oes were 0 the stand
 The questions were shovered on the witnesses in such rapidity by the jury. men that the witue es quickly be- came confused as well as alarmed The jury tried to find out which dep uty fired the stec packetcd bullet nat killed Halliday
 They got information that -he oe. groes fired indiscrImrately into the crowd with shot guns and evolvcls, but none Of them would admit hltns used a Swiss rne. W.th which i' IS supposed Halliday Was killed
 The investigation was adolIncd until Monday ate f.xtecn v, ntsscs were examined
 The six negroes rLo participated n the firing on the mt are said Go he marked men now that their name, have become p.,iie
 The killino of one wlitc mtu and the roundin- of ar4 ot1c,, at tne qnIs of negroes Aa. brought ot p'o- tests ltom even tHe -ousc.yeute cle .oae
 Sheriff NelHs said dur,ns the inc Quest that he used neslos because he could not find his regular deputies before the local militia company off cers. nor white men who would an, swer his call for help
 Tears ran down his cheeks as he told of his desperate efforts 10 dul men to aid him in protecting his prisoners He declared the local militia company Company k, was notified be'ore 10 o'clock Thur day night to report to him immediately to protect the jail The company did not put in an a9' peardnoe until six hours later
 Nellis said he obeyed the orders oi Governor Deneen in leaving HaIlIdal s body in the snow in front of the court house for three hours before permit ting it to be removed
 He insisted that some one in Iae mob fired the first shot which whizzed by his head and said that his men mistaking the shot for his sigma. hrea first into the air and then into the crowd. This statement was contra dlcted by George Jackson, negro who insisted that the sho'in fired ,he first shot
 Jackson. Hudson Douglass ana Head negroes, who served as depo ties. admitted firing into the noo
 The witnesses said the leaders oI the mob wore guuny sacks over Chen heads with holes cut through iot h' eyes
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