The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
FOUR NEGROES
SHOT; GUNMEN
MAKE ESCAPE.
Police Cannot Identify White
Men Who Killed One Negro
in Restaurant Early Friday
Morning on BeaIe Avenue.

trivial skirmsh, followed BY .
thrilling gun fight. before dawn Friday,
between whites and negroes on BeaIe
avenue, the cause Of which was
blanketed by mystery. so far as the
police were aware Friday, developed a
casualty list of one negro killed ana
three negroes wounded seriously.
The white aunners made their way
from the battlefield without revealing
their identity or the numbers Of their
cars.
Dead
JAMES ANDERSON, alias Jimmy
sticks " 219 South Second street; shot
through the heart.
Wounded:
Mike Williams, 5S McLemore avenue;
bullet through left leg, bone shattered.
Leonard Martin, 649 Monroe avenue;
bullet through left shoulder,
John Pearson, 4S0 Aston avenue; bull
let in breast.
Seven negroes in a big touring car
driven by Tom Miller 4O1 Monroe ave.
nue., whirling along Fourth street be-
tween Madison and Monroe avenues,
shortly before 5 o'clock Friday morn
ing, met a large touring car going in
the opposite direction, which, according
TO Miller, contained two or more white
men. The latter directed their search
hght on the negroes, checked the speed
OF their machine and fired two bull
lets toward the automobile load Of
negroes.
Miller told the police that he put on
all power and raced from range Of the
white mems pistols. Turning back on
MS route, Miller. drove up to the New
york negro cafe, 1913 Beale avenue,
parked his car at the curb and the
seven negroes went inside.
Tracked to Cafe.
A few minutes later, so Tom told the
police, small roadster, containing two
white men, stopped near the entrance
and the men stepped to the sidewalk.
Just then Martin walked outside the
lunch house. One of the white men
accosted him and demanded: Say,
amt those negroes who were in that
big car around on Fourth street
few minutes ago in there" and the
man. indicated the cafe with a nod of
his head.
Martin said that, seeing pistols in
the mems hands, he bolted to run, but
the first crack of a pistol flattened
him to the sidewalk. with the flash
of the pistol, so the negroes aver, the
occupants of the cafe began seeking
cover.
Both gunmen, however, were vast
ing no ammunition. The one who had
remained silent stepped to the door of
the cafe and plunked John Pearson
through the right breast, as John
ducKed for the protection of a counter.
Mike Williams was in full flight,
when a bullet, from the same pistol,
topped him to the floor at the rear
of the house.
g Anderson, crawling behind the coun-
ter until he neared the door, leaped for
il to get away in the darkness. He
dropbed just as he reached the ex-
terror a bullet having pierced his
heart
BY that time every negro in the cafe
with the exception of the dead and
wounded, had got beyond the vision
Of the gunmen These included Miller,
Will Pope, 346 South Fourth street,
and Lawrence Anderson, 232 South Sec
ond street, who had made complete the
seven of the automobile occupants.
Peering under counters and behind
doors, in search of more victims, the
two white men, according to the ne
groes, then went to their car and
raced away at high speed, disappearing
out Beale avenue.