Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-02
BOTH THE BOYS ARE LYMCHED
Colored Population Much In
censed at Brothers Acts
and Express No Indig-
nation at Their Fate.

began reign of murder here this
morning that ended only after three
white men four negro men and ne
gro woman had been killed, 20 persons
wouniod and the two negro boys
lynched a serious clash between the
races was prevented by the arrival, on
special train. of a company of ma
tional guar lsmen from Natchcz.
The trouble started at about two
o'clock this morning and continued
Internationally until 1000 a. m. when
Walter Jones, the elder of the two
boys who started the firing, was lynch
ed just after the soldiers arrived. His
brother, Will Jones. had been shot
and killed by citizens earlier in the
day. Citizens of the town who had
barricadcd themselves in their homes
began to emerge cautiously at ten
o'clock from their hiding places and
by noon the town was quiet. No more
trouble is feared.
Later the body of Toller Warren, a
negro, was found in a hut in the negro
quarter where Walter Jones first began
firing Evidently Warren was one of tho
first victims but just when he was sho;
is now known.
Twenty persons were injured. II If
dangerously hurt
There was no indication of further
trouble after Walter Jones was lynched
md the Natchez guardsmen returned
nome.
The negro population appeared to bee as
much ncensed at the Jones brothers acts
as were the whites The negroes express
I'd no Indignation at the lynchng.
LIST OF DEAD AND WOUNDED.
Tonight the bodies of the Jones
brothers were still hanging to the coal
chute. Authorities have decided not to
hold a coroners inquest. The dead are:
Sheriff G. 3. Hammett of jefferson
county, white, shot while leading a posse
to where the Jones brothers Were hiding.
Former Constable Frank Keinstly,
white, shot at his home after being called
to the door.
claude Freeman, white of Fayette
Miss, shot al the railway station while
awaiting a train.
Johanna Aiken, Tom Weeks, Jesse
Thompson, Toller Warren and Thead
Grayson, negroes, killed during promis-
cuous shooting.
Walter and Will Jones. negroes lynch
ed
The wounded include:
Orrin ellis, former sheriff, white. shot
In shoulder and may die.
f.. 3. Appleby, white conductor of the
Yazoo e. Mississippi Valley railroad, shot
| In breast. leg and arm, condition danger
Gus.
William McCalleb, white shot in leg
and thigh.
William Keinstly, white, son of Frank
Keinstly, shot in hand
William Dennis W N leg
W. e. Bond, white, shot in leg
BOYS FIRED AT ALL IN SIGHT
The shooting was started by Walter
Jones aged %, in the negro quarter,
where the negro woman and Thead Gray
were shot and killed Waten then
went to the home of his mother and
aroused his 1S-year-old brother VIII.
Together they proceeded through the
main street of the little town firing at
everyone in sight Citizens. aroused
from their sleep by the shots, peered
out of the windows and then FASTENED to
cover, believing, they said to-day, that
riots of more serious proportions had
broken out.
The two boys, soon after leaving their
home, went to the home of former Con-
stable Frank Kenstly and when he re-
sponded to their call to come out he was
shot through the head by Walter Jones
Keinstly's son, william, his father
fall and reached for a gun but before
ne could fire he received a bullet in one
of his hands.
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley station
Is near the Keinstly home and the tive
negroes walked in that direction. \ train
had arrived from Natchez Just few
Iofn and
Appleby was standing at the station talk
ing to Flagman w. c, Bond. Withou
warning the two negroes fired on then
and both fell Then the negroes directed
their fire ut Claude Freeman, who wa
waiting for a train to take-him to hi
homo at Fayette Miss. He was Instant!
illed The negroes next fired into thu
rain, tcrrorizng the passengers.
With their blood lust at the highes
pitch, the two negroes made their wa,
a Cottonsced warehouse nearby. 1t il
1clievcd they determined to make the
asst stand there
CITIZENS SEND FOR SHERIFF.
The citizens by this time had telephone
for Sheriff Hammett at Fayette, Sum
noning former Sheriff Gillis to accom-
pany him, Hammet started for Harristol
on horseback, arriving about i've o'clock
Half a dozen white. men were firing int,
he seed house but no one had ventureC
20 lead a posse into the place
Taking a few men with him Sheriff
Hammett, heavily armed, walked to
wards the seed house whereupon Waite
Jones crawlcd into the tall grass nearb,
and Hammett approached the negr,
fred, killing him instantly. shot from
he seed house brought down ellis.
BY this time the countryside had beel
aroused and farmers came pouring II
from every direction, A general fusilad
Of shots was directed at the seed house
call was sent to Governor Brewer TO
troops
Finding his hiding place too precarious
VIII Jones started to run towards a Goa
chute near by, but had gone only a fey
steps when a bullet ended his life. .
rope was placed around the body, 1t wa
strung up to "A telegraph pole near tn
station and became a target for every
one not shooting at the seed house. 500
after win Jones was killed, Waite
Jones picked Tom Weeks, a negro, o.