Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-09-03
AFRICA
IS TERROR|zED
ONE FRID kERR, WHITE MAKES
BLACKS DANCE,
VISITS NEGRO RESORTS
NCnrs u liig Gun aud BLACKS Fly for
Their hNr~-lhird Nigm Ot
Terror In Succession,


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The tory told the police last night
| was one which would seem character
| Nuc of the william loo any of the SOL
Ic1llci hoWeN style ut theatrical pro
! auctions, u ls said lhut Kerr after.
ihc mad secured large revolver
lHomrNhero loaded II 10 ITS iull capar-
| ll\ ana had llIcd his pockets with
cartridges, visited several of the 'loyI
houses ln little Africa.
Kerr BIS % white man, but was IN
Jungle land last night II ls said lie
hedcckcd himself In the proper bad
man accoulerm'nH, li h said, ana
ilrst visited "a resort lrouGcuted 10y
negroes,
Tie went lu aud sat down, accord
ng 10 the story, hul there was no.
one In the house at the time but two
or ,hrre nogrcssos soon aIlcr ne went
there "a colored man appeared. lie hud
no sooner came upon the scene thauI
MT l'dd Man flashed the SIS shooter
which, 10y the way, looks very mean
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station. with THIS ugly weapon mel
forced the negro into doing all sorts
of stunts While the negro WAS in incl
midst of a combined quake and
dance. as according To the tale uiI
the negro himself hc was surely /
shaking win FEAR al the same lllnr
he was doing the dancing All OF al
sudden the bad man ordered the nee
gro 10 stop ana lay lpW ,r IN othcr
words, SIT In chair ana not even
sho" his worries.
soon another negro came io the es-
hhlishmcnt and ne was put through |
the ordeal ol lacins the grim looking
mouth of what Chlri OF Police con
nicely calls cannon,
After enough men had been seated
to llll all of the chWr available, the .
bad men left ana went to another
negro resort 1t Is said, ana the same
performance was put on there,
a house whore some white people
were living was visited and a WhlieI
man ana a white woman We're ADDED
to the list Of the terrorlzed'
Then another negro resort was Wis !,
itcd, The bold man was makingl
things hum worse here than in any
Of the previous cases, when the police
stepped IN. Ia Fact Just aS the police
patrol driven by Oliicer Pullen, ana
containing a load Of officers appeared
on the scene the one herr was chas-
ing a bunch pi people, both whlte ana
black. one old negress, going It toI |
dear lire, ran from a mouse INTO thel
street and In her haste, i"ll INTO al
puddle oi water The others were
equally scared, ana although thcre
was amusement ON the part of the
officers for the charcoal IN the mud
as one of them called IT, the bad
william was loaded INTO the noodlum
wagon and taken TO inc police sta
lon where ne was placed pehlnd thcI
bars atter his dangerous llnelN had
hc"n put into the vault HIS weapon
was a "a colts.
whether the man was under the IN
Uuence OF dope or rs insane II is not
known, but the trlal to-day promises
To he interesting.
The bunch That the bdd man was
chasing when the oiIcers arrived was
subpoenaed as Witnesses Those re-
quested TO be at the police court today
at : o'clock are {. II. Melham, white
ana Mrs Peck, ernest Crlner Nellie
; mlth Elsa west WIN Johnson ana
Ollie Johnson, all negroes
Last night was the thlrd night IN
succession that niue Africa mas peeh
thrown into an uproar. Wednesday
rlght j. D. Gibson was shot 10y a man
named Lee ana Is now on what may
prove to be his death bed rms scrap
Is reported TO nave started over
woman FAIRLY yesterday morning,