Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-08-25
nAuv KrNNEBnc JOURNAL. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 1917

dent district Immediately adjacent to the
camp site many homes were deserted dur
ing the afternoon.
MutiIation Of Whites
Indignation over the outbreak was par
ticularly expressed because of the saw
ageness displayed by the Negroes
toward the white police officers
who were slain and whose bodies in near
ly every instance had been hacked with
bayonets. Among the Illinois guardsmen
also much feeling was evident because OF
the nutiiation of Capt. Joseph Mates.
one of the first to be slain by the rioters.
Because of this feeling Gen. Hulen at
noon ordered the public morgues in which
bodies were held to close their doors to
all except immediate relatives Of the vic
Tins.
Funeral arrangements for the victims
of the riots were made during the after
noon. The four police officers who died
fighting will be given a public funeral
Sunday afternoon.
Two youths slain, Earl Fendeler and
Frederick Winkler, will be buried Satur-
day. Arrangements for the burial Of the
IL other dead have not been announced.
Causes Of Riot
Chief of Police Brock during the day
issued statement concerning the cause
of the riot in which he asserted that both
he and Lieut. Shekergian Of the Gath In
fantry had conferred for two hours
Thursday afternoon regarding the posi-
bility Of an outbreak and preventive
measures to be taken. Neither, however,
believed the trouble would reach a crisis
SO quickly, the chief asserting he feared
that dispute between one Of the officers
and a Negro sergeant might prove the
spark to start a confagration.
Action Practically Mutiny
The Negro soldiers Of the 2ath Infan-
try are being entrained tonight to be re-
moved to Columbus. y. NJ Captain L. s.
Snow, commanding the battalion, said
late tonight that the action Of the Ne
groes was practically mutiny.''
Affidavit of Private
An affidavit made before military au-
| thorities by Leroy Pinkett private in l
Company of the oath Regiment, which
participated in the rioting, giving what
. he said was a complete story Of the t-ou-
BILE, is follows:
Yesterday about P. NJ. we heard that
Corporal Baltimore of our company had
been shot by special police officers (white
| officers who ride horses). All the boys
! said Let's go get the man who shot Bal
timore 1t was getting late then and we
, stood retreat at 6 o'clock and then !
heard Sergeant Henry of our company
say: Well, don't stand around like that.
ahead and do it After that I saw soma
Of the boys slip over to Company X and
1 heard them say they had stolen the am
munition. Then Capt. Snow called the
men out In line.
lie asked what we were doing and or
| dered search made for the ammunition
and also ordered that our rifles be taken
up. In the same talk Capt Snow told us
, that Baltimore was not in the wrong ::
that the policeman was in the wrong. I
, heard him say that A big fellow in our
company named Frank Johnson then
came running up the company street hol-
lering Get your rifles, boys We all
made rush then for the supply camp
: and got our rifles and we went to a large
ammunition box and got our ammunition
Sergeant Henry was the leader. 4
Didn't Know Girl Was Shot
Corporal Whitley. Corporal Brown,
Corporal Moore. Corporal Snodgrass and
Corporal Tillman and about 100 privates
were in the crowd that had gone and
started off toward town. l was in the
crowd | had my gun and my ammuni-
ton, l did not know a girl got shot.
did not see an ambulance. We went down
: the shell road that goes to the fourth
ward. We met an automobile with a
white man in it. They stopped him and
; Sergeant Henry told the man to get out
: Of his car but he did not get out and all
the soldiers that were in front shot the
man | judge that about so shots were
fired a t him. l was toward the back and
did not fire shot here. Then we march
ed on up the road. and as I passed the
car ] heard the white man in the car
: groan, but we did not stop. Then we met
, some officers in a car coming from the
fourth ward and the sergeant told them
to get out and told them to leave their
car. We did not do any shooting here.
Then we met two men in buggy who
looked like Mexcans, but we did not
shoot them Then we got to the dirt road
, and started to the graveyard on San
Tilipe street. and right at the graveyard
, they started shooting Sergeant Henry
. was in front and he hollered to everybody
to lay down. They all laid down but N.Y.
, self and two other fellows, and we ran
, down the side street. As we ran heard
, shooting that sounded like all Of them
were shooting together. I tried to get
back to the camp, but was afraid and
stayed in the woods all night 7 was ar
rested this morning after dayhreak when
I tried to get back to camp.
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