The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-17
RUNS A MUCK
N.gro Soldier Shoots Another Negro
Soldier aud Two Negro Women.
SHOT FINALLY BY RUSE

A Member of the Tenth Cavalry, Col
ored, at Fort Ethan Allen MUIR
ders Comrade and Defenseless
Girl, Then Mortally Wounds an
other Negress. He Runs on Ram
page.
Ire people of Burlington, YER
mont, near which place is located
Fort Ethan Allen, have about got
their full of negro soldiers. Recently
Thos. Carlisle, a trooper of the Tenth
Cavalry, which is composed Of color
ed men, except the officers, came out
of his quarters OF the fort, where
the regiment is stationed, with a
rifle and his belt filed with amu-
milton, and proceeded to shoot up
several people, all of whom were
like himself negroes. He was a big,
vicious, bad looking fellow.
Before he himself was brought
down by a bullet from a rifle in the
hands of Lieut.. Blaine, a white Of
ficer of the Tenth, Carlisle in his
homicidal fury had killed Andrew c.
Fox, ,comrade in the regiment; had
murdered a young negress named
Clara Washington, coming upon her
as she lay i'll in bed and sending
three bullets tearing into her body
while she was in the act of scream
ing for mercy, and had mortally
wounded another colored girl named
Beatrice Stewart.
Against Fox he had grievance,
but against the woman none at all;
ne merely came upon them in his
fight after the Staying of his fellow
soldiers. He had run into a negro re-
sort, known rs Bluefort's restaurant,
and rushed through the rooms seek
ing to shoot to death all whom he
lad found there. Other women in the
house ran screaming out into the
roads and sought the shelter of near
by woods. He had left Beatrice Stew
art for dead.
Mortally wounded, as the girl was
she staggered and foundered and
crawled after the other women un-
til one or two, more courageous than
the rest made a dash for her and
drew her with them in the shelter OF
the underbrush and trees. Then
Carlisle found himself facing a
fight with a corps of thirty armed
soldiers. Standing in a second-story
window of the Bluefort resort he
fought them furiously. Bullets
smashed the pane of glass over his
head and tore away the sashing. He
returned he fire as fast as he could
pull the trigger of his rife.
In the end he fell victim to a ruse
devised and executed by Capt. God
son and Lieut.. Blaine. He was shot
in the hip by Blaine and sank help
lessly to the floor of the room.
Brought to his senses by the shock
of the wound, he signalled his will
ingness to surrender. Fox, the muir
dered soldier, is understood to have
caused Carlisle's arrest for slight
infraction of discipline. The man had
simply been remanded to quarters
for the day. His rifle and ammuni-
ton had not peen taken from him.
Fox had no chance for his life. The
top of themans skull was complete
ly carried away by the high-powered
bullet. A group OF soldiers rushed
toward Carlisle But they, like Fox,
were unarmed. And he turned on
them, his rifle on his shoulder. The
maniacal expression of his eye halt
ed every man Of them. Without a
word he turned suddenly and ran
down the road, off the military
reservation and into the restaurant
resort.
The dining room and bar were
empty at the time. So he tramped up
stairs. He put his shoulder to the
door Of the first room he came to and
sent it flying backward. There he
confronted the sick woman, Clara
Washington. She screamed and ask
ed him wha he meant to do. His ans
wer was to shoot her in the breast
and head and thigh, killing her. He
heard after that the voice of women
who had Just come in downstairs.
He leaped down the stairway, swept
in on the women, shot Beatrice Stew
art and grinned when he saw her
fall.
AS he stood watching the woman
writhing on the floor he heard the
sound of approaching horses and
the tramp of men. He ran upstairs
and took his place at a corner win
dow, and as the company of soldiers,
under command Of Capt. Godson and
Lieut.. Blaine, approached he met
them with every bullett that remain
ed in the magazine Of his rifle. A
volley came back at him, but, al
though it splintered the glass and
woodwork OF the window he was
unhurt.
Then strategy was used against
him. Capt. Godson drew his men off
at a distance in front of the house.
taking so open a position as to in
,:ite Carlisle,s fire. 1t nearly proved