The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-11

first man fired on by the black. said
he went with Officer CroOme from the
Barksdale station on a can 10 Poplar
avenue.
They reached the place and saw tie
negro there with a lot OF chickens m a
wagon. CroOme held a black jack over
the negro while Mccarthy searched
him.
Mccarthy said that while they were
arranging some way to take the negro
and the chickens TO police station,
CrOome went to the store and lett him
with the negro, Mccarthy said he saw
the negro reach toward the buggy seat
as though to draw a pistol A few min
uteS later they both began shooting. He
fired three shots when the negro fired
the fourth Shot, the negro's last shot
knocking his tMcCarthy'sl gun from his
hands and injuring him, When Croome
came out OF the store the negro shot
him also, Mccarthy said,
J, NJ. Long detective, told OF the ne.
gro's arrest, He accompanied Chief
Burney In the police wagon in search
for the negro fugitive. They did not
know that Sergt, Brinkley had been
killed at that time,
They found the negro hidden IN some
weeds on Barrett place, near Jackson
avenue. The negro said to them, Here
| am" and still had a pistol in his
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and was wounded. Several officers got
hold OF him and he was taken to police
station by Chief Burney in the wagon,
Later he was taken 10 Jail.
The net Of evidence on which the
state relies to send to the electric chair
Lorenzo Young, negro slayer OF the late
Sergt. John G.. BrinkleN, Of the police
department, seemed well woven about
| the black gunman by witnesses FRIDAY,
One witness was Joe b. Burney, chief
Of police. who In person headed the
SQUAD Of men which finally captured the
! negro after he had killed Brinkley and
wounded four other white men.
Chief Burney said Young told him
that he did not intend to shoot the OF.
| ficers, but that he wanted to shoot
the ''dago'' who had reported him to
the police for chicken stealing.
Ed. Pass. former assistant chief OF
| police. who was in the party when the
negro killed Brinkley, stated that q
garage was between him and Brinkley
at the time the later fell mortaly
wounded,
Or. Georgfe T. Brinkley, brother Of
the slain officer, was the first witness
on the stand after the jury was com
pleted at 4:S0 O'Clock Friday afternoon
The emergency clause was invoked by
Judge Tom Harsh to complete the Jury
when the first special venire was eN'
hausted.
Or. Brinkley stated that a fund Of
$4,000 had been raised by public sub
scription for the widow Of his brother
Lorenzo Young was arrested bv two
Barksdale policemen in the Oyertor
Park market, a grocery store at Pop
lar avenue and Mclean boulevard, OF
June 10. He had taken stolen chickens
there for sale and the grocer called thu
police, One policeman let Young wall
to his buggy, The black man got hi
pistol from under the seat, shot an'
slightly wounded both policemen. HI
shot and seriously wounded the part
ner OF the grocer. Then he fled. Squad
of police pursued him after centra
headquarters was notified, Brinkley
Pass and Detective Chief Hulet Smitl
were in one of these squads. They cam
upon the negro at jackson venue an
Waldran boulevard. A gun battle en-
sued in which Brinkley was mortal,
wounded and Smith shot through tn
hand. The negro was wounded also
but again escaped in MS buggy.
Later a squad headed by Chief o
Police Burney captured Young in som
weeds along a fence near Barrett plac
and Breedlove avenue.
Talk of lynching was so strong tina
Sheriff Perry whisked the negro to tn
state penitentiary at Nashville for safe
keeping. He was brought back her
for trial a week ago, earlier action hav
ing been impossible on account of hi
serious condition from the wound in hi
leg,