The Cairo bulletin., 1913-10-01
ILLINOIS NEGRO
PROPHET CAUSE
OF RACE RIOTINC
Champaign Missionary TO Mississippi
Blacks melted Them to Try to
Wipe Out Whites.
FUNERAL OF SHERIFF. AND
OTHERS LARGELY ATTENDED

ilarriston, Miss. Sept 30.-The
race riot and lynehing of Sunday,
which had its death toll increased 10
twelve persons by the death OF two
more victims, was melted by ne
| gro prophet and johnson Prophet
Iof Champaign H., is under arrest
tonight as the one who drove two
members of his race TO begin a cam
Daign OF death in the belief that
hey were martyrs in the cause OF
racial equality
Prophet is known to have formed
4 secret society known as The
Council of Good trends, and he.
made Willis and Walter Jones, the
wo who started the trouble and
we're afterward lynched his chief
disciples Saturday night a meet
ng of the council was held and
Prophet is said to nave worked his
audience into frenzy by attacks
N the white race and by giving a
general invitation for all the 'perse-
euted 70 migrate to Illinois, where.
he promised them, they would be
given every advantage of equality
Woman CAUGHT After Flight.
Prophet was living here with the
mother of the two Jones brothers,
and after the lyncbing 1t was found
chat this woman Maggie Jones, had
fed. She was captured last night
1t Port Gibson, twenty miles from
here She is charged with having
given the negroes cocaine and it is
reported that a mob is being secret
y formed to go to Port Gibson, take
her from the Jail and lynch her.
Prophet when the investigation
| ~ authorities developed his COM
)licity in the trouble, was taken to
| Natchez last night to avoid further
outbreaks. When it became known
hat he and Maggie Jones had sup
lied the two youthful killer"
With liquor and drugs before they
tegan their outbreak open threats
# another lynching were made. de-
| pite the presence OF Governor Brew
+ and the state troops from Jack
on
Negroes Driven Before Dead.
| Two thousand negroes, practically
Ill there are in this county, were
'ounded up by armed bands Of white
itizens today. They were driven
Ike sheep into Harriston, where
hey were forced to pass singly be-
ore the bodies of Willis aud Walter
ones, rddled with bullets and with
its Of rope still about their necks
rhe living negroes were solemnly
| warned to bewre lest similar fata
,vertake them, and then were per-
1itted to return to their homes.
The guardsmen, who were rushed
ere to prevent disorders, are being
RELY criticised for the fact that they
| lllowed a few determined men to
| stand them off while the murderers
we're lynched Il is generally under
| stood that an 'unwritten law" would
| rave prevented them from firing on
| members OF their own race under
he circumstances, and the tact that
they made no attempt, not even by
| voicing protest, to prevent the
Isurpatl0n of the law, has earned
hem much condemnation.
Race War Danger Ended.
! Aside from the threats to take
Prophet from the Jail and lynch
him there has been no indicati on OF
violence since last night The ma
tional guard is still on the ground.
| Negroes are keeping off the streets
and the danger OF the situation has
blown over.
The funeral OF Sheriff c = Ham
nett f. f. Kinsley and Claude Free
man. the white victims OF the battle
with the frcnzied blacks was one OF
the largest in the history of this
section today. Governor Brewer at.
tended accompanied by members OF
his staff and residents of four coun.
ties