The New York herald., 1922-07-11
AND BAD IN HERRIN MASSACRE

this bunch Listen to me and we will
| take them down the road
HE started to say something else and
| They told him IL he didn't shut up they'd
shoot him they said they were going to
kill the whole bunch"
The mob began beating their prisoners
with pistols and revolvers. Tracy says.
The leader tried to make a reproving
speech. but three men stopped him and
the mob got behind the three.s Then a
new leader appeared-"an old fellow
about so. big. stout. weighing about 100
pounds felt hat, mustache, unshaved for
about a week, red face, Roman nose,
rawboned face, about Ave feet ten inches
tall. dressed very rough. blue shirt. They
called him Tom or Bill. forget which,"
This man." Tracy went on. asks
who the captain was. and they said they
had no leader. He says: L make a mo-
tion that we take all these scabs out here
and stop the breed OF such people in
the world They said: You are cap
tain; IL you want to kill them, that Is
what we want TO do One or two old
men had rocks in their hands and some
had axes and some clubs and some rines,
shotguns and pistols. / seen two armed
niggers and one unarmed.
Mcdowell was marching just ahead
of me. The leader picks Mcdowell out
of the front rank and commences to beat
him on the side OF the head with AS
automatic. The leader says to Mcdowell |:
You put Alexander Howatt in jail In
Kansas, and you will never put anybody
else in Jail. l am go2g to beat your
brains out with this pistol and put you
in your grave, he says. i am going to
tear you TO pieces he says, and use
your body for bait for some Of the rest
of the scabs down here
r HE hit Mcdowell In the forehead with
the pistol and the blood spurted out i'm
mediately and Mcdowell fell back in my
arms and l Strengthened him up. Nc
Dowell marched en- about 100 yards. He
never said word Then the leader said ::
You have got to tell us all you know
And Mcdowell said: 1 don't know moth
Ing
1.-The leader hit him several more times
and made him march 100 yards after
starting to beat him. And Mcdowell was
a one legged man and he couldn't walk
any further. and he says II you peo-
ple-if your intentions are to kill me.
why he says, L refuse to march any
further he says. L can't walk any
further. II you are going to kill me. you
can kill me now. can't go no further
Women Kick Him.
THE blood was just in splotches along
the road where Mcdowell had held his
he ad down when he walked. The leader
takes him out of the ranks and hits him
somewhere along the head and knocks
him over, and there was some women
there who commenced hitting and kick
ing him.. Women and men all gathered
around and kicked him and hit him.
There was six or eight women, maybe.
ten. and some of them had babies in
their arms. They marched us on west.
That was the last l seen of Mcdowell" :"
X [Note-There is miners hamlet not
far from the spot where Mcdowell was
killed. 1t is Known as Crenshaw's
Crossing. McDowell's skull was frac-
tured- above the left brow and at the
parting Of the hair. The upper hole
looked as il made by pick" an under
taker told the writer.]
This vicious leader dropped out with
the mine superintendent The mob went
on and, according to Tracy. a third
leader took charge. Tracy described him
and tells of his suggestion that the
mob break the prisoners arms with it's
rifles. which was not acted upon be-
cause he changed his mind. Near the
power house woods a man who all the
strip miners said was president Of the