The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-10-02
DOUBLE LYNCH|NG
FOLLOWS8 MURDERS
Drug-Crazed Iegro Boys Hanged
--Terrorize a Town.
SHERIFF Is SLAIN IN FIGHT
State Troops Reach Harriston, Miss,
and Check Race Riots-Murder-
ers Fire on Train-Twenty
Are Wounded.

Harriston, Miss, Sept. 30.-Two mu
iatto boys. brothers, crazed by drugs
began q reign of murder here on sun
day that ended only after three white
men, four negro men and negro WON
an had been killed, 20 persons wound
ed and the two boys lynched by citi-
gems.
A serious clash between the races
was prevented by the arrival on spe-
cial train of company of national
guardemen from hatcher
The trouble started at about two
o'clock in the morning and continued
internationally until ten O'Clock, when
Walter Jones, the elder Of the two
boys who started the firing. was
lynched just after the soldiers arrived.
His brother, viii Jones, had been shot
and killed by citizens earlier in the
day. Residents of the town who had
barrioaded themselves in their homes
began cautiously to emerge at ten
o'clock from their hiding places, and
b. noon the town was quiet. No further
trouble is feared.
The dead:
Sheriff G. p. Hammett of jefferson
county, white: shot while leading
posse to where the Jones brothers
were hiding.
Former Constable Frank Keinstly,
white; shot at his home.
Johanna Aiken.
Tom Weeks.
Jesse Thompson.
Thead Grayson.
The three latter were negroes killed
during the promiscuous shooting.
Teller Warren, negro; found dead in
hut where shooting began.
Walter and VIII Jones. negroes;
lynched
The two boys, soon after leaving
their home, went to the residence of
former Constable Frank Keinstly and
when he responded to their call to
come out he was shot through the
head by Walter Jones Keinstly's son,
William, saw his father fall and
reached for gun, but before he could
fire he received a bullet in one of his
bands.
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley rail.
road station is near the keinstly home.
and the two negroes walked in that
direction. train had arrived from
Natchez just a few moments before.
and conductor T.. B. Appleby was
standing at the station talking TO
Flagman w. c. Bond Without warn.
ing the two negroes fred on them and
both fell. Then the negroes directed
their fire at Claude Freeman. who was
waiting for train to take him to his
home at Fayette, Miss. He was in
stantly killed The negroes then fred
into the train, terroiizing the passen.
gers.
Frightened citizens by this time had
regained their wits and telephoned for
Sheriff Hammatt at Fayottc, Sum.
moning former Sheriff ellis TO accom-.
pany him, Hammett started for Har.
riston on horseback, arriving about
five o'clock. A small crowd OF men
were firing into the scedhouse but no
one had yentured to lead the posse to
the place. Taking few men with
him, Sheriff Hammett started towards
the seedhouse, whereupon Walter
Jones went to the tall grass nearby
and as Hammett approached the negro
fired, killing him instantly. A shot
from the seedhouse brought down Gil.
lis.
A general fusllade was directed at
the seedhouse. A call was sent to Gov.
ernor Brewer for troops.
Finding his hiding.place too precari.
Gus. VIII Jones started TO run towards
coal chute nearby, but had gone
only few steps when bullet ended
his life.
Soon after VIII Jones was killed
Walter Jones picked Tom Weeks,
negro, of the coal chute
Soon after Weeks was killed the
special train bearing the Natchez
guardsmen arrived. While the sol
diers were leaving the train the crowd
rushed the seedhouse