The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-10-03
MULAT7OS
KILL 8; |NJURE 20
GHOOT UP HARRISTON, MISS.
BEFORE THEY ARE FINALLY
LYNCEED.
MILITIA IS FINALLY CALLED
Soldiers Arrive in Time to Prevent
Severa! More LynchinJs-Tcr-
rorized Citizens Are at
Last Gained.

LdSL SSIf1Gu.
Harriston, Miss. Scot. 50. - Two
drug-crazed nulatto boys. brothers,
began a reign CT murder here that
ended only after three white men.
four colored and a negro woman had
been killed, 20 persons injured and
the two boys lynched.
A serious clash between the races
was prevented by the arrival by spe-
cial train OF national guardsmen from
NatcheZ.
A TweIve-our Siege.
The trouble continued intermittent.
ly twelve hours, when Walter Jones,
the eldest of the two boys who start
ed the firing, was lynched just after
the soldiers arrived. His brother,
Will Jones, had been shot and killed
by citizens earlier in the day.
The Dead ard Injured.
The dead include: Sheriff G.. 3.
Hammett of Jefferson county, white,
shot while leading a posse to where
the Jones brothers were hiding; For
mer Constable Frank kienstly, white,
shot at his home after being called
to the door; Claude Freeman Of Fay
cite, Miss, white. shot at the railway
station, while awaiting q train.
Johanna Aiken, Tom Weeks, Jesse
Thompson and Thead Grayson, ne
groes, were killed during the shoot
ing.
Teller Warren, Walter and Will
Jones, %lynched.
Orrin ellis, former sheriff, white.
was shot in shoulder; may die; Will
liam kienstly. white, was shot in
hand; f. b. Appleby. white, conduc-
tor of the Yazoo and Mississippi Val
ley railroad, was shot in breast, leg
and arm, dangerous; William MEGA
leb, white, was shot in hand; William
Dennis, white, was shot in leg: and
w. o. Bond. white. was shot in leg.
The shooting was started by Wal
ter Jones, aged 20, in the negro quar-
ter, where the negro woman and
Thead Grayson We're shot and killed
Walter then went to the home Of his
mother and aroused his ~lS-year-old
brother. Together they proceeded
through the main street Of the little
town firing at everyone in sight. Citi-
zens, aroused from their slumber by
the shots, peered out OF the windows
and then FASTENED to cover.
Call ex-constable to Death.
The W. boys, soon after leaving
their home. went to the home OF
Frank kienstly, a former constable
and when he responded to their call.
he was shot through the head by Wal
ter Jones. Kienstly's son, William
saw his father fail and reached for a
gun. but before he could fire he re
ceived a bullet in one OF his hands.
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
depot is zeal the kienstly home and
the two boys walked in that direc
ton. A train had arrived from Match
ez just a few moments before anG
Conductor E. B. Appleby was stand
ing at the station talking to FlagmaI
Bond. Without warning the boys
fired on them and both fell. Their
the boys directed their fire at ClauC
Freeman. who was waiting for a train
He was instantly killed. The negroe.
Nh lutl HlGu l1lJo liz llu1Iy LllA
the passengers.
Boys Make Last Stand.
, The crazed boys then made theil
) way to a cottonseed house nearby
where they determined to make thei1
last stand. Frightened citizens b,
this time had gathered and telephonet
for Sheriff Hammett at Fayette. Sum
moning former Sheriff ellis to &C
company him, Htmmett started TO
!, Harriston on horseback, arriving
: about ) O'Clock. A small crowd o
! men were firing into the seed house
!. but no one had ventured to lead tn
;, posse to the place.
Taking a few men with him Sheriff
: Hammett, heavily armed, startet
= Walter Jones fed to a field nearb,
and, as Hammett approached. the ne
? gro killed him instantly. A shot from
the sect house brought down ellis.
BY this time the countryside ha,
been aroused and farmers came pour
ing in from every direction. A cal
r was sent to Governor Brewer TO
Q troops.
Finding his hiding place too preca
G rious, Will Jones started to run TIC
wards a coal chute, but had zone onl,
a few steps when a bullet ended hi
life. A rope was placed around tn
body, it was strung up to a TELEGRAPH
pole near the railway station and be
I came q target.
Soon after Will Jones was killed
Walter Jones picked Tom Weeks,
negro, Off the coal chute by his deadl
aim. He was caught and lynche
p shortly thereafter.
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