The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-06-19

could be found. Yet the tracks LED
from the dirt road onto the grass
at the edge Of the ravine.
Fifteen minutes were spent at this
spot while the detectives with drawn
pistols searched the ravine. Then
Hurst discovered the spot where the
negro had turned the buggy and
driven out.
Again they took up the trail
1t led back to the street, on west for
block, then was lost in a confusion
of wagon tracks, all much alike.
They came in sight of the negro
on Waldran boulevard, near Jackson
avenue. He fired back over the seat
at the pursuing officers, and, desert
ing his buggy, fled into vacant lot
near the corner.
A veritable hail of lead from po-
licemen's pistols followed the black
mans disappearance. 1t was his an
swering fire that brought death to
3ergt. Brinkley.
Get him! He's killed me-" were
the last words Of Sergt, Brinkley, as
he fell into the arms Of Sergt. G. t.
DuvalI, shot through the heart by
Lorenzo Young, who opened fire on
a second party Of officers dispatched
out Jackson avenue to intercept the
black driving rapidly northward from
the Parkway on North Waldran bou-
levard.
The bullet pierced the left cheek,
ranged downward through the left
shoulder, the upper part Of the left
lung and passing near the heart, cut
blood vessels around the heart caus-
ing almost instant heath.
AT Coweta alley, just west Of
Breedlove street, the negro left his
buggy and hid in the weeds in the
rear of the residence Of R. P. Wood
son, I'll BreedIove. Detectives John
Long, with Chief Burney and par
ty Of officers from police headquar-
tiers, who had by this time reached
the scene, first spied the black peep
ing from between the pickets of a
fence in the rear of the Woodson
home. Other officers had been
searching for him in the barn. The
black said to Long and Granville
Heckle, detective, who was just be-
hind Long, Here ! am; come and
get me-"
Exhausted from his wound, appar-
emily, the black had given up effort
to proceed or fight further. One
ball was left in his pistol, which by
this time had slipped from his fin
gers to the ground.
Police Chief Joe Burney, E. M.
Kinney, speed officer, and Detectives
Will Hagan and Granville Heclkle
loaded the black into the car and
took him to Central police station.
The negro was speedily indicted.
He was carried bodily by two negro
TRUSTEES from the courtroom, where
he was indicted, to the garage Of
the police station. Then he was
to be taken to the county Jail as
precaution against possible mob ven
geance.
Elaborate pains were taken by the
police department to circumvent pos
sible attempt to catch the negro en-
route to the county jail He was
placed in the back of an auto and
crammed down on the floor so that
he could not be observed from the
outside. Four officers then got in
the car and one hung on the out
side.
Four other automobiles were filled
with uniformed officers an detectives,
and one after the other left the ga
rage for the county Jail, taking diff
ferent directions.
Officers sumggled Young on the
noon N. C. & st. L. train for Nash
vile from fear Of trouble here. How
ever, they took long chance, for
had the good people Of Somerville,
where Sergt. Brinkley was beloved
by his boyhood friends, known that
slayer was on the train,
his life would have been worth little.