The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-09-12

come masters OF the situation, turned
and continued his flight.
Could the young men at once have
procured heavy rifles there no doubt
would have been no escapes = except
dead ones. Mr.. Edwards pitiful plight
seemed to arouse them to the keenest
pitch of battle.
Nearly every man and youth in town
armed himself and joined in the chase,
but the parched condition of the ground,
the excessive heat, lack of dogs and has
tening darkness all favored the escapes,
and they were not located, though it
was late hour before the search was
abandoned for the night.
Mrs. L. G. Smith, wife of Assessor
Smith, was the first to reach the Jail and
Mr.. Edwards side after Mr.. Walter
Majors gave the first alarm. She cared
for him as best she could, while her two
daughters ran for other help. Drs. G. H.
Irion and J. z. Wise and many anxious
friends soon reached the scene. Mrs.
Smith, noting the absence of bandages
when the same were demanded by the
doctors, at once tore her underskirt into
strips for that use, thus gaining the ad-
miration of all. Others did what they
could. Mr.. c. O. Gayle proffered the
use of his automobile and, accompanied
by the two doctors named, Mrs. Gayle
and Mrs. R. T. Stinson, was soon on his
way to Shreveport with the wounded
officer.
Mr.. Edwards was last night operated
on at the Schumpert Sanitarium in that
city by DR.. J. c. Willis, assisted by
other physicians. 1t was found that the
upper portion of his skull was fractured
in several places, the main fracture ex-
tending from near the crown of the head
to point near the top of his left ear.
1t is also feared that there may be
a fracture at the base of the skull,
which, if true, is said would no doubt
prove fatal injury. However, favor
able reports have come from the SANTA
rum to-day. Mr.. Edwards was resting
well and hopes not unfounded are enter
tanned that he will survive the blows.
Sheriff J. F. Edwards (who is the
wounded officers cousin) has offered a
reward of $500 each for the three fiends
who committed this crime-to be brought
in dead or alive. Their descriptions are
given as follows:
Jim Hurd is brown skinned negro,
about thirty-five years old, weighing
about 175 pounds, dressed in blue over
alls and wearing rubber heels on his
shoes. He has a chip out of one upper
front tooth and small gold filing in
another upper front tooth on the right
| side of his mouth.
Silas immersion is nineteen or twenty
years old, weight about 1870 pounds, a
small man with a bony face; brown in
color; has the third finger of his right
hand off at the first joint. Wore when
he escaped a blue undershirt, and nc
outer shirt.
Mood Burks is heavy-set, chunky
negro, weighing about 1876 pounds, with
fiat nose; nineteen or twenty years Of
age; dark brown skin; dim scar over the
right eye. He wore blue shirt.
The first named is a bootlegger, re-
Gently arrested in Bossier City. While
jncarcerated for a lesser crime than the
other two, he is credited with being
more cunning and for more daring. 1t il
thought that he is the instigator of the
plot and that it was he who wrenchet
the unused piping from the floor ant
placed it Gin two sections) in the hands
of his accomplices to be used as weapons
in assaulting the officer.
The other two were being held for +;
murder in which they shared jointly
Some weeks since they killed one o
their own race on Mr.. A. G. Skannal'
plantation, in ward one, while he was a
work in the field. 1t was Deputy Sheriff
Edwasds who brought them in and j
was he who described the crime to us Al
having been committed in cold blood.