The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-04
BARR|CADED NEGRO
 STARTS SMALL RIOT
Scores of Shots Fired During
 the Melee
MEN HAVE CLOSE CALL
Negroes Were Using Swiss Rifles at Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street. One Is In Hospital Quite
 Seriously Wounded

As a result of a small riot on Twen- ty-sixth street and Avenue c yester- day afternoon Albert Sankey is in the Hillman hospital seriously wounded; i; two negroes. Ed Williams and Lee Brown, are in the county jail on a charge of accessory to a riot and as sault with intent to murder. and D. R. Marsh is In the city jail with like charge against him.
 The trouble occurred when Deputy Sheriff Ed Wilson went to arrest negro against whom he had war rant. For a time 1t looked as though there would be serious trouble. as there were three negroes firing at Will son and Sergeant Newman. A riot call was turned in at the police station and in five minutes an automobile full of policemen was 6n the scene. However. they arrived. Every deputy was hur- ried to Avenue and Twenty-sixth street by Sheriff Higdon and when Sankey was shot there were at least 15 men shooting at the negroes.
 The trouble started when Deputy Wilson went to arrest a negro at the home of Sankey. Sankey asked him what he was doing in the house and became insolent.. He then went out of the room and Wilson left the house. he happened to glance over his shoulder and saw the negro drawing a bead on him with a Swiss rifle. He stepped around the corner of the house and his driver, Doc Marshall, drew gun on the man and told him to throw up his hands. Instead of doing so the negro stepped back into the house and prepared to shoot out one of the win dows. Finally the deputy and his spot ter succeeded In hemming the negro up in the house.
 The negro defied them to enter and threatened to kill the first man who stepped on the porch. This was the situation when Sergeant Newman got news of the trouble and rolled up. Telling Wilson to watch the front of the house he broke open the rear door
 
 and walked in on the negro. Sankey at tempted to use his rifle but Newman got a bead on him and forced him to give up his weapon. He took the ne- gro out to tae front and gave him to Deputy WilsoS
 Anticipating no danger Newman turned away and began to walk toward his wheel Someone shouted to him to look out and he turned just as Lee Brown fired at him with Swiss rifle that he had obtained from Marsh. It Is consid- cred wonderful that Newman was not killed as the negro took deliberate aim.
 Newman was still holding the rifle that he had taken from Sankey and before the negro could shoot a second time he re- turned his fire. Upon this the negro ran between two houses and escaped New man. but was later caught by the deputy sheriffs.
 In the meantime the negro Sankey had secured another rife and began firing at everybody he saw. He backed down Twenty sixth street and got In an open field where he could see everyone ap- proach him. He emptied his magazine at the white people who were attempting to shoot him with pistols, fortunately striking no one.
 While this was in progress Deputy Will son and Sergeant Newman were in an extremely dangerous position. The ne- gro in front was firing at them and a negro on each side of the street was also firing. Some patrolmen. who had arrived on the scene, were shooting at Sankey over the heads of Newman and Wilson. The two men were literally hemmed in by wall of bullets.
 The dust was knocked up all around their feet and many bullets sang close to their ears. The peril was added to by the wild firing af spectators who were shooting at random. At least 100 shots were fired. It sounded like a small bat tle.n
 Sankey backed slowly across the field, firing at every step. Deputy Sid Cowan and Charles Boyd were in a ditch on Avenue D. As the negro came in gunshot range Boyd raised and fired one barrel of buckshot He missed and the negro wheeled and fired at Boyd. Boyd shot the other barrel. nearly every shot talk ing effect.
 There was intense excitement at the place and several hundred people gath cred. Some ugly talk was made, but there were so many officers present that nothing was done. There was no trouble