The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-09-12
after GETTING MONEY
fired AT Mr.. CARTER
Negroes Who Pretended That They
Wanted to Purchase Shoes Threw
Guns in store-keepers Face and
Compelled Him to Surrender Cash.

One of the boldest robberies
ever committed in this county
occurred at McCallum about 700
O'Clock Saturday night, when two
strange negroes entered the gen
eral merchandise store of Mr..
John NJ. Carter, and, at the
point of revolvers, compelled him to
open the safe and surrender what
money there was in the cash box.
Mr.. Carter, who was in Hatties-
burg this morning, stated that while
he was alone in the store, just after
dark, two negroes entered and one of
them asked to be shown some shoes.
Mr. Carter took several boxes from
the shelf and showed them to the pros
pective customer. None of those,
however, appeared to please the ne
gro, who requested that others be
shown him. Mr.. Carter turned and
walked toward the rear of the store
in order to get other shoes, leaving
the negroes at the counter. Before
he could return, one of them walked
toward the front of the store. Mr..
Carter placed several boxes of shoes
on the counter and was in the act of
taking a pair from one of them, when,
raising his eyes to his supposed Gus
toner he confronted an ugly-looking
revolver held close to his face.
Glancing toward the front of the
store, Mr. Carter saw the other negro
in the act of rifling the cash drawer.
while the man with the gun command
ed him to keep still. Not finding any
money in the cash drawer, the negro
who was in the front of the store
came back to where Mr.. Carter was
standing, and, pointing his revolver
in his face. commanded him to deliver
what money there was in the store.
Just before the negroes entered the
store, Mr.. Carter had taken all the
money from the cash drawer and
placed it in a money sack, intending
to put it in the safe. When they
came in the store, however, instead
of putting it in the safe, he laid it
upon small desk just outside of the
office and left it there, intending to
put it in the safe as soon as he finish
ed waiting upon the negroes.
Finding no money in the cash draw
er, the black desperadoes commanded
Mr.. Carter to open the safe, and level
ing their revolvers at his head COM
PEELED him to go to the office at the
rear of the store and comply with their
demands. When the safe had been
opened, one of the negroes snatched
the money box from Mr. Carter's
hands, and while both of them cover
ed him with their revolvers, they back.
ed out of the store and compelled their
victim to follow them to the door.
Just as the robbers stepped outside,
Mr.. Carter noticed that one of them
evidently intended to shoot him, and
instinctively lodged behind the door
facing. AS he did so bullet crashed
into the wood behind which he was
standing. The other negro also fired
and then both of them fed from the
place, taking the money box with
them. There was about $40 in the
box.
Mr.. Carter Immediately attempted
to communicate with Sheriff Magru
der at Hattiesburg, but the telephone
refused to work and he was compelled
to drive here to notify the authorities
AS soon as Sheriff Magruder was made
acquainted with the facts, he tele
phoned to the county farm for blood
hounds, and, in company with Mr.
Carter and Horace Culpepper, super
intendent of the county farm. went
to the scene Nc lobbery. 1t was
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