The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-08-04
NEGRO SHOOTS TWO
BEFORE HE'S KILLED
BIG MOB Al! SIOUX FALLS JOINS
IN HUNT OF NAN WHO DAN.
GEROUsLY WOUNDED
OFFICER COLLINS.

SIOUX rails, =. U.-One police onl'
Ger shot and dangerously wounded
a special officer seriously injured by
q shot in the leg. q thousand men
searching the town for the negro who
! did the shooting and finally. the kill
Ing OF the negro by a shot from the
revolver of another policeman. are
the chief points In a tragedy which
caused great excitement in Sioux
Falls Saturday night.
The shooting occurred as the re-
suit Of the attempt Of Officer Collins
to arrest William Brown, a negro.
who had flashed q revolver in an al
tercation with some young men in
front Of the Levinger saloon at about
10 O'Clock. The arrest was attempted
in front Of the dye works opposite
Tossini's store on Phillips avenue.
The negro drew a gun and shot Col
Inns in the body just below the heart,
and then made his escape, running
south on Phillips avenue.
With the smoking pistol still in his
hand the crazed negro started on a
run on Eleventh street, went into an
alley and was lost in the darkness.
Excited people who had e 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.
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 o!
B. s. Mcmahon, said that she had seer
a colored man pass by and that he
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" il they should find Inn.
Owners Of autos filled them with
members Of the mob and started on
the road to Harrisburg and the road
was lined with automobiles until at a
late hour word was received that the
negro had been shot.
The second shooting occurred not
far from the Queen Bee mill, near
some cars on the Illinois Central
track. Martin Ellingson, a 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
fugitive. They came back up the track
10 look among some box ears and
net the negro. They tried to stop him
but the negro started to run. Filing
drew his revolver and fired rev.
eral times. The negro turned and fir
n shot which struck Ellington in
leg about six inches above the
knee. Then for the second time he
made his escape. +!
"A Quick Shot.
It was about 1 O'Clock when Off
;er Herman Veins, who was crouch
ng on the watch near an out build
ng near Sam Wortham's house,
heard q step at his lefs and looking
around saw a figure in the darkness.
Immediately turned his flash
light on the man and looked into
he barrel OF a revolver. The revolt
'er was snapped but missed fire, just
IS Veins brought his own gun into
'lay and took a quick shot at his as
The bullet entered the neg
'o's forehead over the left eye, kill
ng him instantly.
This morning Conductor Moran
alked with his wife at Sioux Falls
,ver the phone and she felt that her