The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-10-26
BAD NEGRO SOLDIER
Shoots Another Soldier and Two Ne
gro Women.

Shoots Another Soldier ana Two Ne.
gro Women.
The people of Burlington, Ver-
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
rife and his belt filled with ANU
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 rife in the
hands of Lieut.. Blaine, white Of
ficer. of the Tenth, Carlisle in his
homicidal fury had killed Andrew c.
Fox, comrade in the regiment; had
murdered 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 a grievance,
but against the woman none at all;
he merely came upon them in his
fight after the Staying of his fellow
soldier. He had run into negro re-
sort, known as Bluefort's restaurant,
and rushed through the rooms seek
ing to shoot to death all whom he
had 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
Stewart for dead.
Mortally wounded, as the girl was,
she staggered and f1oundered and
crawled after the other women un-
til one or two, more courageous than
the rest, made 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 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 the fire as fast as he could
pull the trigger Of his rifle.
In the end he fell victim to ruse
devised and executed by Capt Cod
ION and Lieut.. Blaine. He WIS shot
In the hip by Blaine and sank help
lessfy 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 a slight
fnfraction of discipline. The man
had simply been remanded to quar-
tiers for the day. His rifle and am
munftion had not been taken from
him. Fox had no chance for his life.
The top of the mans skull was COM
pletely carried away by the high
powered bullet A group of soldiers
rushed toward, Carlisle, but they,
like Fox, were unarmed, and he turn
ed on them, his rife on his shoaa-
der. The maniacal expression of his
eye halted every man of them. With
out a word he turnHd suddenly and
ran down the road, off the military
reservation and into the restaurant
resort.
The dining room and bar we're
empty at the time. So he tramped
upstairs. He put his shoulder to
the door of the first room he came to
and sent it flying backward. There he
confronted the sidk woman, Clara
Washington. She screamed and ask
ed him what he meant to do. His
answer was to shoot her in the meast
and head and thigh, killing her. He
heard after that the voices of women
who had just come in downstairs.
He leaped down the stairway, swept
in on the women, shSt Beatrice Stew
art and grinned VIXEN 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 window,
and as the comapny of soldiers, un-
der command of Capt. Godson and
Lieut.. Blaine, approached he met