The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1915-07-21
MAN HUNT AT BOGUE CHITTO.
Monday Night Was Most Exciting Ex-
perienCe Of Pedestrian from
New York.

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1t was our pleasure yesterday t
greet Mr.. Bernard +. Krall. 0.
New York, by courtesy OF Mr.
Walter 7. Jones who accompanied
the young pedestrian to The Leade
office
Mr.. KraII has already covered
tramp of 4 400 miles. having lei
New York thirteen months ago II
the interest of his health. and traV
eled on foot over what is known a
the National Road, through Kansas
City, Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas
SaE Antonia being his turning
point
Mr.. KraIl paid tribute to the
Lone Star State where he has spent
five months, characterizinG it al
"The finest state in the Union"
but added, I'm Texas you get wha
you ask for: but in Mississippi yor
don't have to ask for it," He wa
charmed with the hospitality oi
Louisiana and Mississippi and re-
ferred to the courtesies, common
to this section. as though they were
rare experiences.
THE most exciting incident oi
my whole tramp, however, " sale
Mr. KralI, who we should have
said is cultured young English
man, WAS down here at Bogue
Chitto last night and then he
kindly gave for The Leader the fol
lowing account Of the man-hunt in
which our neighbors were engaged
during Monday night
Early yesterday morning (Mon-
day. a negro, who was we'll thought
of in the community of Bogue
Chitto, was murdered by another
colored man, whom he had be-
friended. After trying all day to
track the murderer from reports of
those who claimed to have seen
him, the authorities, headed by
Mr.. Burns, the constable, decided
to get the justly famous Crystal
Springs bIoodhounds. that arrived
about 8 p. m. with their keeper,
Mr.. Pickett. They we're led to
the house and Immediately picked
up the scent, which they. followed
without fault in a circle of about
IL miles. The trail ended abrupt
Iy at the R. K. and the authorities
are of the opinion that the murder
er boarded a passing train and has
gotten clear of the vicinity.
IA large crowd followed the dogs;
but the pace was too fast for many
who dropped out early and later
MIR. Pickett, who had led 5-mile
gait from the start, opened out IN
to fast sprint, which achieved the
desired result of thinning out the
crowd.
"a woman with whom the mur-
derer is supposed to have associated
was questioned by the constable
without any dentiite result. Con-
siderable excitement was caused at
one point in thicket where the
dogs got very impatient and a cry
was set up that the murderer was
discovered.
1T proved a false alarm, and
there were some in the crowd who
had the audacity to suggest that the
bIoodhounds had "tree'd a pos
sum" or got on the scent of hog,
which dashed out among the crowd
and nearly created panic.
No motive could be found for
murder; but many stories were told
none of which agreed except in the
fact that the murderer had threat
ened four other negroes in the COM
munity. Among the posse we're a
number of negroes, who wanted to
burn the murderer if caught.
This mornings dispatches con-
tain the following account from
Bogue Chitto:-
Excitement among the colored
population of this place has been
at fever heat for the past twenty
four hours over the finding in bed
of the murdered body of one of
their number, George Coleman,
yesterday morning AS Coleman
slept some miscreant dealt him a
heavy bIoV with an axe on the
forehead Robbery is believed to
have been the motive that prompt
ed the deed .Nthe assassin taking all
the personal effects. including a
watch and a few dollars IN money
and then making good his escape
BIoodhounds we're placed on the
trail late in the, afternoon, but to
no effect.