Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-08-04

| ming south on Phillips avenue.
With the smoking pistol still in his
hand the crazed negro started on a
dead run up to Eleventh street on
Phillips avenue, on Eleventh street he
| turned, going as far as Main avenue,
where he went into the alley and was
! lost in the darkness.
Excited people who had seen the
shooting stood still and watched the
negro escape and it was several mo-
ments before the crowd was Gained
| down enough to start in pursuit. The
| first thing that the men thought of
and they lost some time in the efforts
to get arms and several started who
were not armed tramping down the
! grass and the weeds in the hope that
4 they would find the man who shot
'old Jim Collins"
After searching the outbuildings the
crowd started out on South Main and
when as far as the All Saints school,
where a servant girl, Ester Myrseth,
| employed at the home of b. S. McAla-
hon, said that she had seen a colored
man pass by and that be had shot
| twice at her. Rumors then started
that he was hiding in the All Saints
| school which is now vacant, so the
mob armed with shot guns, rifles and
pistols searched over the grounds OF
the school threatening to hang the
Niger" if they should find him.
People in that neighborhood, who
are the owners of autos, filled them
up with members of the mob and
started on the road to Harrisburg and
the road between this and that city
was lined with automobiles until at a
late hour last night, the word was
received that the negro that was
wanted had been shot by a special
policeman near the packing plant
north of town.
Collected on the corner of Eleventh
street and Phillips avenue at 100
/ o'clock this morning there was large
mob armed with whatever they could
get their hands on and hoping that
they would be the lucky one who
would have "crack at the COON
SHOT SPECIAL OFFICER.
The second shooting occurred not
far from the Queen Bee mill, near
some cars on the Illinois Central
track. Martin Ellingson. former
chief of police Of Deadwood, was
sworn in as a special officer and in
company with Ray Nelson had been
down to Sam Wortham's place near
| the packing house where the negro
Brown, had boarded, to search for the
,ri{ two no hn
| track to look among some box cars
and met the negro. They tried to
| stop him, but the negro started to run.
Ellingson drew his revolver and fred
several times The negro turned and
fred one shot which struck Filing on
in the leg about six inches above the
knee. Then for the second time he
made his escape.
A QUICK SHOT.
1t was about 1 o'clock when Officer
/ Herman Veins. who was crouching on
/ the watch near an out building near
1.-THE Sam Wortham's house, heard a
step at his left and looking arc md
saw figure in the darkness Veins
! Immediately turned his flash light on
the man and looked into the barrel Of
a revolver. The revolver was snapo ed
but missed fire, just as Veins brought
his own gun into play and took a
quick shot at his assailant. The bull
let entered the negro's forehead over
the left eye, killing him instantly.
Sam Workman, at whose place the
negro Brown, boarded, identified the
body as that of William Brown and
James Fowler, who was with Off e.
/ Collins when he tried to make the
i arrest, also saw the body and said
there was no doubt but that the right
negro had met his death from the
bullet of Officer Veins.
THREATS OF LYNCHING.
During the hours from the time the
shooting occurred until the negro was
killed, there was a great crowd or
the street, and threats of lynching Il
the negro was caught, We're made. Al
one time the crowd surged down tc
the county Jail believing that the ne
gro had been captured and was i'm
prisoned there. Sheriff Nelson as
sured the crowd that the man they
4 wanted was not there, but they were
not satisfied until they had taken {
look through the jail
STONES THROWN.
{. Later on a crowd collected o,
!. Eleventh street near the First ave
nue. corner, where is house &C 5upies
by colored people. Some threats wer,
made and a few stones were thrown
at the house, but officers finally in
duced the crowd to disperse.
I During the early part of the nigh
a number Of special police wer
z sworn in and did good work in pre-
venting serious disorder.
Greensburg, Pa, July 30.--The strik
ing miners are alleged to be mohil
izing an army of 1000 tonight t
avenge the death OF one and the in
.ziMry of many others in battle wit
). the officers this morning. They ar
alleged to have set fire at an earl