The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-02
TEN MEN ARRESTED
IN KNOXVILLE FOR
AIDING PRISONERS
TO ESCAPE JAIL
City Passes Quiet Holiday
Following Riots of Satur-
day and Sunday When d
Two Were Killed and
Dozen Injured /.


Knoxville, September AL
though still under heavy patrol
by national guardsmen and
special officers following the
race riots of Saturday night
and Sunday morning in which
two men were killed and 16
sent to hospitals with wounds,
Knoxville today passed a
peaceful holiday. Two of
those wounded in the main
battle Saturday midnight are
not expected to survive the
night.
/ Sheriff Cate tonight caused the arrest
OF ten white men on charges of assisting
prisoners to escape when the jail was at
tackled Saturday night. Other arrests on
this charge and that of rioting are
promised. Those arrested tonight are:
Dave Fox, Arthur Clinton, Won Luttrell.
man, Will Davis, Bruce M. Chaffey, Jim
Dalton and Jeff Claiborne.
The situation has so far improved that
Adjutant General F. B. Sweeney tonight
sent home the third battalion of the
Fourth Tennessee infantry from the wes-
tern counties of the state, and expects
to release all outside companies Tues
day, leaving here the machine gun COM
pany and one rifle company which have
Headquarters in Knoxville.
NO DISORDER YESTERDAY
Practically no disorder was reported
today and few alarms were sent in.
Shortly after 10 o'clock tonight, v. APP
ostolis, proprietor of a restaurant near
the Southern Railway station, was shot
in the right foot as he stepped from
in the right foot as he stepped into
an alley in the rear of his establish
ment. He stated the shooting was done
by one of five armed white men, who
were in the alley 1t is reported from
another source that the white men had
pursued negro into the alley. They es-
capped.
A big Labor day celebration was held
today by the whites, without disturbance
A scheduled parade was called off. T NO
celebrations planned for negroes at negro
parks were abandoned. Negro pool rooms
remained closed.
Troops still are patrolling the business
district and the negro sections with ma
chine guns in position in the heart of
ho In hoI hl1t
for weapons has been discontinued and
the barred zones in the negro district
have been abandoned.
Two hundred and fifty citizens sworn
in as special deputies or policemen are
assisting the military authorities.
Squads are patrolling all suburban see
lions in automobiles with reserves held
at the court house to answer calls from
nervous citizens. The special officers are
under command of Colonel James A Glea-
son, late of the Hath FIELD artillery, and
other demobilized army officers are act
ing as lieutenants.
GRAND JURY TO MEET
A spesial session of the grand jury has
been called for Wednesday to investigate
the riots and to consider the case OF
Maurice F. Mayes, the negro accused of
numbering Mrs. Bertis Lindsey early Sat.
urday morning, which crime inspired tn.
storming Of the county jail Saturday
night and the subsequent race riot
Mayes is in Jail at Chattanooga where
he was taken Saturday noon before the
trouble started here.
In addition to the casualty list, the
rioting caused property loss of more than
fifty thousand dollars in damage to the
Jail and store buildings and loot secured
by the mob, according to careful esti
mates today. Railroad men report that
many negroes have left the city.
court of inquiry presided over by
Colonel w. B. McCaskey instructor in
spector of the Tennessee National Guard,
was held today to investigate the killing
of Lieutenant James W. Payne during
the heavy fighting on~vine Avenue sun
day morning.
Colonel McCaskey stated that the find
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