Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-23
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Railroad Man Wounded on Judge Makes important
Road Near Coweta Okla. Change in Mcnamara Case.
WAYLAIO DURING NIGHT DEFENSE MAKING PLANS
State Miamen Make Twelve Ar To Begin Questions Prospective
the Jurymen All Over Again.
ARMS FOUND HOUSES STATE WORKING ON NEW CLUE
City Attorney
Into Mud Serious Following Angeles Explosion
Investigated
Railroad Man Wounded on
Road Near Coweta. Okla.
WAYLAID DURING NIGHT
State Militiamen Make Twelve Ar
rests in the Town.
ARMS FOUND IN MANY HOUSES
City Attorney Is Killed-Pushing
Into Mud Starts Serious
Trouble.

MUSkOGEE. Okla. October 2-Early
today John r. Thomas. railroad man.
was found seriously shot outside Coweta
Barely conscious. he told of having been
waylaid by armed negroes during the
night
State militiamen today arrested twelve
negroes in Coweta Negro houses were
searched. In nearly every one. the
City Attorney Killed.
COWETA, Okla. october 23.-City At
torney j. u. Beavers was killed yesterday
and Carmen Oliver and Steller Thompson,
both white, were shot through the body
by Ed Suddeth, a negro. and have little
chance to live. Two negroes were shot
and one was strung up. but il was decid.
ed lynching might cause a race war and
he was cut down.
The trouble started Saturday afternoon.
A telegraph operator named Swazer was
walking with young woman, when Ed
Fuse. negro, I'm passing pushed the girl
from the sidewalk into the mud. Swazer
struck at the negro. and another white
man, whose name is being kept secret,
seized Ruse and Swazer beat him with his
fists
Yesterday Ruse had been walking the
streets with long knife in his pocket.
seeking the man who held him. City
up thek nife and Ruse shot at him.
Marshal Hart ordered the negro to give
up the knife and Ruse shot at him.
At that instant Ed Suddeth ran out of a
house across the street and opened fire.
instantly killing City Attorney Beavers
and wounding Oliver and Thompson. all
of whom were passing and had taken
no part in the trouble.
uousa To po,ohordod
Suddeth took refuge in a nearby house.
which was bombarded with guns and
revolvers by several white men. The
house was set afire and Suddeth fed.
He was shot, but not fatally injured.
He was taken to the water tank, a rope
placed about his neck and he was swung
up, but the likelihood Of race war saved
him from immediate death. Last night
he was guarded in a vacant building.
Coweta is terror stricken, and II Is
feared an outbreak is inevitable. There
are 1900 persons in Coweta, one-third
negroes. The county is populated largely
by negroes, and 1t was said that IL the
blacks were organized they could brint
1900 men into town before morning.
Negro emssaries have hurried out to
surrounding settlements with the avowed
intention Of bringing enough men here to
wipe the town off the map. They declare
they will set fire to every house. The
sheriffs of Wagner, Muskogee and TulsC
counties have sent help to Coweta. and
every means possible will be used to pre-
vent an outbreak.
One negro woman set out on foot fol
Red Bird. an exclusive negro town, de-
claring she would bring every negro In
the settlement back with her. Officers
followed her, but failed to catch her.