Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1911-02-08
TWO OFFICERS KILLED AT WILSON,
Crime Committed By Negroes Who Make
Good Their EScape.

Wilson, Feb. 3.-This town i
lab ring under tha creates t excite
ment of it's history, caused by th.
cold -blooded murder of Deputy
Sheriff George Mumford and tn,
probably fatal shooting of Chef
Of Police A. O. Glover this after
noon by negro desparad .es, whom
the officers were trying to arrest.
This morning the authorities
here were notified to look out fol
negroes who broke in a store at
Dunn last night and stole several
pistols and ether merchandise
This afternoon one or more of the
negroes was located in a negro
house near Norfolk-Southern
Railroad yards and the officers
went to the house to make the ar
rest. Deputy Mumford and Chief
i Glover went to the front door and
Policemen Warren and Wynne
stood guard at the rear. As
Mumford and Glover entered the
front door, the negroes opened
fire. Mumford was shot through
the head and Glover through both
lungs. The former died in less
than an hour and the latter is e.
pected to die at ally moment.
Immediately upon seeing the
officers fall and before either of
the officers stationed at the rear
could run around to the front the
criminals darted out of the front
door and escaped. Bloodhounds
were brought here on q special
train and are now following the
trail. Posses in automobiles, in
bugsies and % foot are securing
the nearby country and the mill
tary company, reinforced by hun
dreds of citizens. is on duty pick
citing the roads to prevent the
negroes escape from the territory
in which they are supposed TO be
hiding. Several arrests were made
but the parties who witnessed the
shooting exoneFated the prisoners
Feeling Is running high and
the excitemens is most lntenBe q.
Cser q thoussld heavily armed
men are securing every inch of
ground in this section, ard should
the murderer or murderers fall
into >their hands, q lynching
would cause little surprise Char
lotte Observer.
Wilson, Feb. 5.-Last nights
clues, that the negro desperadoes,
who murdered Deputy Sheriff
Mumford and seriously wounded
Chief of Police Glover here Fr:--
day afternoon, had been located
failed to materialize this mora
ing and up to IL O'Clock tonigh'
they are still at large, although
other clu=s as to their whereabouts
are coming thick and fast. The
latest developments III the matter
are the arrest of Jim Simms, q
negro who is said to have I.een in
the house of Mary Young at the
time of the shooting, and mes
sage to Sheriff Sharp from Sheriff
McGeachy of Cumberland to the
effect that Lewis West, the mu
latta leader of the gang was seer
at his home near Fayetteville this
afternoon.
At 10 o'clock tonight Mary
Young, who is being held IN jail
as an accessory to the crime, stat
ed to Deputy Sheriff Howard
Rowe that Jim Eimms, q Wilson
negro, was in her house at tht
time of the shooting and on the
strength Of this statement Simm,
was arrested and placed in jail
Owing to the late hour and the
fact that it was Sunday night ano
tie streets were almost de-
serted d, the arrest of Simm
caused no demonstration. Yer,
few people will loarn of his arres
until molning. Simms, of cours
denies the charge. but the officer
a-e won't to take the woman,
statement as true. Simms kille,
negro with an axe several year
ago and was sentenced to MIN
years on the roads, having bee
discharged only few m onths ago
His reputation is rather shad
aud proof of his participation i
the crime would occasion no sur
prise. It is believed that he viii
confess.
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