Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-20
CROWD IS FIRED ON
BY DEPUTIES AFTER
CROSSING DEADL|NE
Alleged Assailant of Woman
School Teacher Sought
i'll Knoxville, Tenn.
TROOPS CALLED OUT TO
AID DEFENSE OF SHERIFF.
Raiders Declared TO Be Arm
ing Themselves by Breaking
Into Hardware Stores.
vow ro ANENGE SHOOTING
"u Negroes Reported To BE I'm
"""'c {" Jail "n Run, md
More Trouble Fcnred.
TROOPS CALLED OUT TO
AID DEFENSE OF SHERIFF.
vow ro AsENGE SHOOTING
Nesr"es Rcp"rtrd To BE I'm
h""tc {" .Inii "n Run, mud
More Trouble Fcnred.
ny Associated prc.s.I

kNoNNILLE. TENN. >ur IN
more 'hnn twenty persons ncrc
wounded. two seriously, nj p;3o 10
night when deputies guarding III.
hnoN County Jail Hrc,i ON crowd
which had crossed n adc,J I;pc- q,
approaching the Jail with the nyo,xcJ
purpose "f demanding Frnnk Martin.
ncGr" held ns n suspect f, n criu,I
uni attnrk upon IL county nch,ol
teacher Thursday.
MI OF the wounded are white. Two
are women. Most OF the wounded wore
eur'ohSity seekers. who were stand
"S 10 one side upon the courthouse
'a""' which is elevated thirty feet
ABOVE the street level at the corner.
Wherc the jail stands. One officer.
Deputy Sherim Charles Lewis. was
wounded IN the arm by return fire
from the crowd
Soldiers DO Not shoot
Aithough the machine gun company
OF the ll7th Infantry, Tennessee Ma
'lohai Guard. was On duty ut the jail.
tho soldiers did not open fire.
FOLLOWING reports that the school
teacher today had positively identi-
hed Martin as her assaiiant. large
crowds began gathering In the vicini-
| ty- of the Jail before dusk tonight
The jail had been under heavy guard
OF deputies, city police and national
guardsmen all of Thursday night.
but crowds that night were smaller.
and more easily Handled.
Several times. beginning at &
o'clock tonight the crowd started
down the hill on Main Street leading
To the jail. They were turned back
twice by police. Efforts were made
To hold thcm block distant.
Women In Crowd
Gradually some of the boldcr ones
edged down the street. There were
probably 200 men and boys In The
crowd gradually approaching the
jail. Several hundred other persons.
many Of them women. Mcrc in the
courthouse yard looking down upon
the scene.
AS the crowd in the street came
within 100 feet. Shcrin Cate stepped
under an are light and demanded that
they disperse. He gave warning that
an imaginary line between two tele-
phone poles should not be crossed.
As a dozen men passed these poles.
the shcrff picked up Il shotgun and
fired over the heads OF the crowd into
the air. -Four deputies who were
with him then fred two voilcys Two
men I'm the courthouse yard and two
or three in the street fired rcvolvcrs
in reply
Shooting Becomes General.
The shooting then became general.
u t..x ,f,.i,,
could pump their repeating shotguns.
Many of the loads Of buckshot fired
by the officers and intended to 20
above the heads OF the crowd In the
street went among spectators in the
courthouse yard. one pr more of the
officers at the jail opened fire with
rifles and rcvolvcrs also. as some OF
the wounded are suffering from bull
let wounds OF large calihcr.
Women screamed and men cursed
In the courthouse. scores threw them
selves To the ground To escape the
hail of bullets coming ih that dircc-
ton The crowd in The street ran
back panic stricken. and the deputies
Charged. now firing over the heads
of the crowd and driving all Of them
back to Gay street. u block from the
jail.
Break Into shops.
The mobbists are said to be armlng
themselves by breaking into hard
ware stores and pawnshops with
view OF avcnginK the shootings and
the attack on the girl Five other
convicted murdercrs are held in the
Jail. against whom threats have been
made
one company of local militia and
Il company Of local cavalry arc now
en- route To the Jail.
y mob OF negroes from thickly
settled negro section is reported to
be en- route to the Jail on the run
and more trouble is feared IL they
are not interccptAl.
The police department has been mo-
bilzcd and sent to the jail. y cavalry
company is now patrolllng the streets
in front OF the jail.