The Sentinel=record., 1910-02-19

give up Pratt" he said tonight when some one fired shot in the crowd
 Ny deputies, watching the barley from second story window, thought l fired a shot as a signal They then fired volay into the air.
 The mob refused to retreat and ms deputies then fired into the crowI You know the result My conscience is easy over the entire affair They were determined to get me unless go them did my duty by protect ing my prisoners at any price" ] Former Sheriff Frank Davis. who was busted from office by Governor Deneen after the lynchng of William James. a negro. and Henry Salper, a white man last November. Is suing 10 oust Nellis from the office. claim. ing the law under which he was ousj. 1 ed is unconstitutional
 "I may have paid a prettr good price to hold job l may lose in the courts. said Nelne tonight.
 A dozen nohen windows in the courthouse .cda, showed the result of the shct= fired into the building by the mob, but DO serious damage was done
 sherif Nellis received slight flesh wound in the hand. All tho party with him in the jail escaped injury.
 There were six negroes in the party of fourteen armed deputies that de- tended the jail with Neris, he says. His party numbered about 21 but there were net guns enough and the negroes were immediately pressed ir. to service. he says. because he could no. get enough white men to serve.
 Despite this explanation, he is he. ing criticised for depuuzing negroes 10 fire on whites and the malconteuts are using the incident as an argument for further demonstrations
 The conflict between the city and county authorities that marked the November lynchines is again in evil deucc Mayor Parsons says he was not notified of any trouble until 9 o'clock and that he then ordered the police department to go to the assist ance of the sheriff
 i Captain Greaney of Company K. the local militia company, that was order. 1 ed out at 10 o'clock last night by Governor Deneen, had not reported until , o'clock. said he did not receive the governors orders until ? o'clock. Mayor Parsons has ordered the sa- looms 10 remain closed until danger of further disturbance has passed
 The Halliday family said tonight they had retained an attorney to sue the sheriff and the county for dam ages. Halliday who was a son of former Mayor T. ". Halliday, was shot through the neck and lay on he ! ground near the court house porcn nearly three hours before NeIlis would permit militiamen to remove him to a Hospital
 He died two hours later
 Neilis replies to criticisms of his re- fusal 10 permit the injured man to be removed by saying he obeyed orders from Governor Deneen to permit no person near the building Samuel Wessinger is the only one of the in iured whose condition is at all ser ious. He is at s. Nary's mfrmary with eleven buc,shot wounds in his head
 George B Walker, correspondent for the Associated Press, who was shot in the leg while watching the af- fair, had five holes shot through his clothes
 John Pearl, a street car conductor, vas pulled off the ear on which he was working tonight by miIuamen after he called one of them, it is all , loged an insulting name He was lodged in jail on a charge of disor- derly conduct
 The Commercial club and the Chamber of Commerce tonight at q joint meeting issued a proclamation decrying the recent acts of mob vio- lence and urging the citizens to rally to the support of their civil officials.
 An investigation by state militia of , fcers as to the delay of Company K, of Cairo. in reporting for duty is pos sible, although Adiutant General Dick son said he had not time 10 look into the matter Captain Greaney said it required two hours to get his com panv together, because of the snow drifts in the streets
 COOK PREPARING PROOF.