The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-09-02
Last Weekend 'Rowdy
Throughout County,,
Law Officers Tell
Charges Are Liquor,
Disorderly Conduct;
One Negro Killed

An unusually "rowdy" weekend
throughout the county has been re-
ported by law enforcement officers
this week. The sheriff and his de-
puties had their part in weekend
activities when they raided Mid
Night Grill in Tchula, and arrest
ed six Negroes there on gambling
charges; were called to the scene Of
reported freefor-all fight at
Ellard's Hotel and Court south Of
Durant and discovered moonshine
whiskey on the railroad right-of-
way in Goodman.
In Goodman So termed family
fight" took place in front of ]. D.
Neaves Service station early Satur.
day evening, in which one man from
Attala county sustained injuries
when hit over the head by another
Attala countain who repeatedly "hit
and ran" The other man had not
been apprehended on Tuesday. A
thought-to-be Crazy" Negro tenant
farmer living on the I. w. Majors
place, Durant, was also captured.
Tuesday night, and jailed, after re-
ported attempts to kill his children.
In Lexington, around 6:15 p. m.
Saturday, in a Negro-inhabited
area Of town, John Pat Malone,
night Waterman, shot and fatally
wounded a colored tenant farmer
as the latter was said by eyewitness
es to advance on Malone as he was
attempting to arrest him for drunk
enness and disorderly conduct.
According to eyewitnesses, Mr..
Malone shot in self-defense, fatally
injuring Negro Mckinley Redmond.
46, of Lexington, route 4, as the
Negro advanced on the officer Sat-
urday afternoon, near Gulf Service
station on Yazoo street. Another
Negro, Thurmon Patton, 80. also Of
Lexington route four, said to be q
bystander, was also hospitalized as
the result of stray bullet wound
in the right foot.
The Redmond Negro died Sunday
morning at the Lexington hospital
at 8:15 with cause of death listed as
bullet wound of chest due to gun.
shot" Results of investigation of the
incident by County Attorney Pat
Barrett will be placed before the
Holmes County Grand jury in Octo.
! Der.
r. A. (Junior) Tate, owner and
| operator of Gulf Service station,
| eyewitness to the shooting, said he
failed to see the start of the fracas
occurring in front of the SNOWFALL
stand on Yazoo street but that the
| Negro victim, "made break for"
the Waterman as the latter shot. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Tate, the officers
first shot seemed to hit the Negro
| right below the knee, the second
in the hip, and the third around the
heart" 1t was thought that approx
mately five bullets were fired.
Judge H. B. Jones of Tchula said
the Midnight Grill, leased and
operated by Ralph Carpenter, had
been raided Saturday when five
Negroes were arrested for gambling.
The Negroes, Doc Moore Nose Whit
taker, James Shipp, Willie Gould,
Willie Lee Jones, and Robert Lee
Russell, all of Tchula, paid fines Of
S. and costs in each case. Hearing
was before Judge Jones on Monday.
According to Mayor w. ]. Hollum
of Goodman, Murphy Allen, of At
tala county, is being sought by law
enforcement officers for repeatedly
assualting another Attala countian,
Palmer Ables, Saturday, in Good
man, in an apparent family fight"
Allen caught Ables in an unguard-
ed moment, hit him on the head
with an unknown object, and made
his getaway - car. it was said.
The ''feud" was thought to be con-
corning timber. A warrant is out for