Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-10 | Page 8 | Held Back by a Negro

Posse Fired on and One;IFf Killed Artillery to 'h Be Used l "Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 10. Barrl-j Jr caded in a two-story house at Scotis-f ville, twelve miles south, and armed j with a revolver and plenty of carl-? n ridges, William Twimnn. a negro, Is'- pi holding off a posso of doputy sheriffs! V from Rochester wno hurrlod there,' t on receiving information that Twimaajt hnd gone insane and boasted of kill- ing his father, whose body is sup-7 posed to bo In the house j The posse attempted to take thoj negro and he opened fire, killing! Deputy Simon Bermingham and wounding Deputies Herbert M. Ab-f hott, William Yokes and Edward S. Jenkins, all of Rochester. Abbott Is " said to bo fatally T-.urt. A cordon ol men Is strung about tho houso andj the escape of the negro s impos-i slblc. At 3 o'clock an order was obtain-.--cd from Supremo Court Justice Ben- ton for a one-pound gun from thci Stato armory to be taken to Scotts- ville to bombard the house In whlclij f Twlman Is harricaded. 1