The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-12-27
THREENEGROES
K|LLEDINADAY
IN THIS COUNTY
All Shootings Occurred at
Different Times and
Places-Deputy Sheriff
Killed Negro at Molino
and Two Negroes are
Shot in the City

Two negroes. a man and a woman
were killed In Pensacola yesterday
while third negro was killed at Mo-
lino twenty three miles north Of here
by Deputy Sheriff Bryant Harris. The
woman was murdered It is alleged by
her husband, but no inquest has yet
been held o 8r the. man killed here
Deputy Sheriff Harris was arrested,
but was shortly afterwards discharged
from custody by coroner's jury
which declared the killing of the ne
gro at Molino a tustifiabie homicide.
The negro who murdered his wife has
not been captured, but the man VINO
killed the other one was arrested by
policemen immediately after the kiln
ing. Alphonso (alias SOM Robinson
In tl9es negro who murdered his wife,
While John Adams killed Gurney
johnson. The woman was killed at
her home in the northwestern portion
OF the city and johnson in saloon
S he n2rEheask Qos1aer Of zarragossa
SHOT FOUR TIMES.
The negro woman, Lizzie Robinson.
was killed at her home, corner of G.
and Wagner streets. about s o'clock
by her husband, Alphonso Robinson,
rous about on river steamers plying
out of Pensacola He fired five times
at her, but one of the bullets missed,
the other four striking her in body
almost instantly
According to what her mother told
Motorcycle Officer Harper, the wo-
man tried to escape from her husband
after he had threatened to kill her,
and in her efforts to dodge him she
hid behind the kitchen door, but he
found her. From behind the door,
the woman ran to the yard, but before
she could get out of the way he fired
four bullets into her body.
T-I-R l,R& = v.To Svpnva III aTa1x
after shooting his wife and has not
yet been captured
SHOT THROUGH AND THROUGH.
Gurney johnson, a, young negro man.
was killed in the saloon at the north
east corner of Baylen and zarragossa
streets, about T.30 o'clock last night
by John Adams, a bartender in the
place. He fired once at Johnson a 3S-
calibre bullet striking him in the right
passing through a 7-8-inch board In a
partition which divides the saloon
from a restaurant. The bullet was
picked up In the restaurant by officer
Simmons, who, together with Ohicer
SacCaro, arrested Adams, who was
taken to the city JAIL but later turned
over to the sheriff and locked up in
the county Jail to await the action OF
the coro1Ter's jury today. Johnson died
while being carried from the saloon to
IhS POlNCS SldllOAF rum WHICH BioIC
his body was removed to Pou's un-
deTm king establishment.
Adams claims that he was endeavor-
ing to stop Johnson from having a
n ght with another negro in the saloon.
when johnson turned and fred soda
water bottle at him as he (Adams) :
stood behind the bar, but the bottle
missed him and struck an ice box
He says that Johnson was in the act
of throwing the second bottle at him
when he secured a pistol from a shelf
behind the bar and fired one shot.
Oficer Simmons and Saccaro, who
were near the saloon when the shoot
ing occurred, say that Adams made !
no effort to escape but handed over
the pistol and submitted to arrest |
without any trouble,
KILLED AT MOLTNO.
Charles Mack was the name of the |
negro killed at Molino by Deputy |
Sheriff Bryant Harris yesterday after !
noon. According to reports received |
In Pensa cola, Harris was assisting the |
town marhsaI of AIolino to arrest Mack |
at the home of the latter for a viola !
ton of one of the ordinances of that /
place. When the two officers reached /
the home Of the negro he fired once /
at them with double barreled shot |
gun, but neither Of them was hit. Be |
fore the negro could fire again, Deputy 4
lodging in his right side and causing /
his death within a short time. The Il
negro lived at dolino.