The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-14
BRINKLEY'S BODY
SENT HOME; NEGRO
SAFE IN PRISON
CONTINUED From First Page,

Of the proprietors Of the Overton Park
boulevard, where the negro started his
wild career OF shooting and murder
Friday, was reported as better Satur-
day morning. He spent a comfortable
night, II was reported at the CARLY
Ramsay hospital, where he is being
treated.
Patrolman Dan Mccarthy. who was
shot In the hand by the negro, and
ratrolman I'D Crumc, snot in the arm,
both are confined TO their homes us
a result Of their wounds.
Detective Chief Hulet Smith, who
also was shot in the hand in the battle
at Lewis street and Jackson avenue.
which cost B~rinkley's life. returned to
work Saturday morning. -
Deputies Badly Scared.
o. II. Perry, sheriff, Saturday. was
quite wrought UP by reports OF the
kidnapping Of Young at Jackson, brought
back by his deputies.
According to the deputy sheriffs,
Chief Brown, Of the Jackson police
force, with n0 armed men and 10 spe-
cial policemen with their badges on
the outside, roundly abused and threat
ened the Shelby deputies when they
took Young from their custody, They
say that n Of the party told them
| NIiaA II lilt ntkip wa lht l6hA bfkIb
they had better beat j.. The deputies
caught Il train for Hollow Rock and
then returned to Memphis. They told
the sheriff on arriving that ut one time
| they feared for their lives.
After | called up the chief and gave
him some plain talk he turned the ne
gro over 20 the other authorities the
sheriff said,
Had Violent Temper.
That Young was OF violent temper
and frequently became so enraged tina
his temper became absolutely 'uncon'
t%roiiable, was the statement SATURDAY
morning of the slayer's wife, Dais!
Young.
This supports the theory OF polio
as TO why Young, after shooting on
policeman In front Of the Overton Parl
market, should suddenly turn and fir
into the store door, at the other OF
ficer, Brondini and his wife, MiCci, IN
another white man.
Detectives believe that one Of the un
comfortable RACES seized Young, becaus
he felt he had been tricked by Brondin
into the hands of the police for tn
81 stematic theft Of chickens,
Daisy told Detectives Al Hurst an
Jim Mahan Saturday morning that sh
saw Lorenzo on Tuesday morning, whe
he left home. declaring that he wa
going to his uncle's In Mississippi (
work. The glayer's uncle Is ED eros:
q farmer at Plum Point. Miss. He ha
a brother, named General Thomas, nea
Cedar View, Miss.
Lorenzo Young, 1t developed Satur
cay, was arrested on June 3, 1918, !
the st, Louis Tool store, 1e5 Beal
avenue, after he and Traffic Police
nan Ike Kahn had words and n scuff1
about a bicycle which II was allege
was stolen The negro was charge
with larceny at the time, but aftG
hearing the case In city court, Ii
= charge was changed TO assault and bal
terry, and the slayer was fined sat,
] The chickens which Young o
, the oysrton Park market Friday we'
stolen. They were identified SatuI
, day morning at police headquarters /
j. ". Thomas. OF Capleville, as h
z property. They were stolen Thursds
, night,
= The horse and rig, which. Your
drove Friday, when he killed Sere
Brinkley, were the property OF NJ, pol
[ gett, a negro. who lives at Cedar yie'
Miss. Doggett told Hurst and Mahe
Saturday that Young had borrowed q
horse and zig from his wife on Thur
day night, saying that he wanted
visit his brother, about six miles ava
Young owned the horse about thr
Y years ago, Doggett says,
tTwo Other Negroes Held.
Young's wife aud Doggett both a
held by police for further inyestig
. ton. The department hopes to &
more information from the woman, al
% they are seeking TO connect poggs
y with the numerous chicken thefts viii
II 1t has been developed Young commit
ted. Daisy Young said saturday Nth
& she last saw the horse and riEin Mel
4 pitts two weeks ago Saturday pogg'
u was In town at that time and was
her home, she said, but Lorenzo a
the horse and rig were not there
e the time Doggptt a She identtfi
:, the horse at the city pound Saturday
Doggett claims that his horse was
Cedar View, Miss, on the day in que
ton. Cedar View IL about rs mi
from Memphis,
- Daisy said that Lorenzo owned a
II blue pistol which he purchased d y,
= ago on Beale venue This was I
II weapon which killed Sergt, Brinkley a
/. wounded four other white mem L
l. day. She claims that she and Loret
we're married three years & at o
Branch, Miss, and that they came
Memphis three weeks ago from }
shoba, Tenn, where they worked
the DIR, Williams farm. She told
IL t~ectives Of absences from home VIII
LORENZO frequently took, and said u
he often Dame back with SIS or $40,
shid he sometimes took his pistol WI
he went away. but that sometimes
e. left Il at home, too. They lived
plT south Second street In Mc;aph
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