The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1913-10-03
DOUBLE LYNCH|NG
.FOLLOWs8MURDERs
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-
latto boys, brothers, crazed by drugs,
began a reign of murder here on Sun
day that ended only after three white
men, four negro men and negro wom-
an had been killed, 20 persons wound
ed and the two boys lynched by citi-
Zens.
was prevented by the arrival on spe-
cial train of company of national
guardsmen from Natchez.
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, Will Jones, had been shot
and killed by citizens earlier in the
day Residents of the town who had
barricaded themselves in their homes
began cautiously to emerge at ten
o'clock from their hiding places, and
by noon the town was quiet. No further
trouble is feared.
The dead:
Sheriff G. P. Hammett of jefferson
county, whites shot while leading a
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 ypromiscuous shooting.
Teller Warren, negro; found dead in
hut where shooting began.
Walter and Will Jones, negroes;
lynched.
The two boys, soon after leaving
their home, went to the residence OF
when he responded to their call to
come out he was shot through the
head by Walter Jones. Keinstlys son,
William, saw his father fall and
reached for gun, but before he could
fire he received bullet in one of his
hands.
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley rail
road station is near the Keinstly home,
and the two negroes walked in that
direction. A train had arrived from
Natchez just few moments before,
and conductor E. B. Appleby was
standing at the station talking to
Flagman w. G. Bond. Without warn.
ipo tho two poorooc frod IN tbov,, n N
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 fired
into the train, terrorizing the passen-
gers.
Frightened citizens by this time had
regained their wits and te1ephoned for
Sheriff sHammett at Fayette. 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. seedhouse, but NO
one had ventured 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 fusillade was directed at
the seedhouse. A call was sent to Gov.
ernor Brewer for troops.
Finding his hiding place too precari
Gus, Will Jones started to run towards
coal chute nearby, but had gone
only few steps when a bullet ended
his life
Soon after Will Jones was killed
Walter Jones picked Tom Weeks, a
negro, off 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.