Milford chronicle., 1911-11-24
NEGRO ATTACKS
WHITE WOMAN
COateSViIIe Greatly Excited Over
Latest Assault.
POSSES ARE IN PURSUIT
Mrs. James Campbell Struggled With
Him on Lonely Road and Beat Him
of Until Help Arrived.

Him on Lonely Road and Beat Him
OFF Until Help Arrived.
Mrs. James Campbell, thirty.eight
years old, of 30 Chester avenue,
Coatesyille, Pa, was attacked by a
negro while walking along a lonely
stretch OF road about two miles from
Coatesville. A posse of police and
citizens is hunting for the negro.
Mrs. Campben's assaiIant threw her
TO the ground and struck her twice,
but she fought him off until the ap-
proach of a man and a woman from
opposite directions drove him to flight
in the woods Mrs. Campbell was little
injured by her experience.
AS soon as the alarm was spread
scores OF citizens turned out to aid the
police in tracking the fugitive Among
the hunters-easily the most pictur-
esque and most dangerous element
that has ever participated in a man
hunt in this part of the country !
were number Of cowboys who are |
employees Of a wild west circus which |
is now in winter quarters in Coates
vile.
For the second time within a few
months Coatesville public sentiment
was stirred to the depths and threats
were openly made that the assalant
would not be allowed to reach Jail
alive if the police were behind at the
capture
Mrs. Campbell the wife of an iron
worker who has lived in the borough
Tor many years and is well known.
was on her way from her home to that
OF her brother, Frank McCleese. in
the country. She was walking up the
Black Horse hill, about two miles
from Coatesville, when she first saw
the cOlOred man.
The road at that point runs through
a stretch Of woods which extend on
both sides for long distances. and the
is particularly isolated
and lonely. The colored man suddenly u
stepped out of the woods, where he fl
apparently was lying in wait for a h
victim, and threw his arms about Mrs. -
Campbell
She screamed and struck him in the 81
ace. He thereupon threw her to the 1o
ground. She struggled upright and he
truck her in the face. Again she q
rose and once more he knocked her q
own. Mrs. Campbell was screaming 81
continuously, and Miss Johanna Tr
'in, who was driving along the road ne
q a carriage, heard the cries. whipped
p her horse and soon appeared close
t hand
At almost the same moment Levi ca
lillinger of COatesville, appeared pri
ON the other direction, and the ne 10;
70, who was stockily and powerfully cal
lilt, fed into the woods. Miss Irwin
ok Mrs. Campbell into her carriage 81
Id drove rapidly to Coatesville. S5
here she placed Mrs Campbell in as
re of a physician and notified Chief
Police Umsted
Chief Umsted at once summoned AZ,
cry policeman he could reach and NJ
lrted on the trail of the assaflant -,
sws Of the attack spread quickly vc,
d soon men singly and in groups he
re leaving town, many of them be- fur
armed, and taking up the trail of sne
: negro.
Some person telephoned to the
adquarters of the wild west show. q
the cowboys, nothing loath for a
lie excitement, mounted their bron-
IS, coiled their lariats and. with
'rmous "siX-guns," or revolvers. on
ir hips, set off at a wild gallon in II,
rch of the man. ~
he negro is described as being verv
&c and having a very black skin.
h scar on his face. This. if is
ed, will aid in quick Identification
S irwin, who rescued Mrs. Camp. -
, declares that about a year ago -
le she was passing the same spot -
the road, a negro fired a gun at
but did not hit her, and she es-
ed EyN
ater another hold-up by a negro MsW
reported to the police Mrs. Fred VIM
sell, of Oak street, was STONED WIN
e driving to COatesville from Err " VI
'un, directly opposite the place Nh
re Zach Walker was burned. by a F/HH
o who in some respects answers VIM
description of the first negro VIM
Russell whipped up her horse I'M
got away. The negro shot after M//H