Show ElliOT Will DESPERADO I Desperate Battle Lasting Several 1 Hours Between I I tween Negro Murderer and Police 0 of New Orleans I I Outlaw is Finally Shot to Pieces After the Building Vherein He was Barricaded Had Been Set on Fire but not Until He Had Killed Three Persons Fatally Wounded Four Others and Seriously Wounded Several More i J J New Orleans La July 27 After a desperate battle lasting for several hours in which he succeeded 1nJ killing > Police Sergt G Porteus Andy Van Kurcn keeper of the police Jail and Alfred B Bloomfield a young boy and fatally wounding Corp John S Lally John Banvillo exPoliceman Frank Hv Evans and A S Lacklerc one of the lending confectioners of the city and more or less seriously wounding several sev-eral other persons the negio desperado Robert Charles who killed Capt Day and Patrolman Lamb and wounded I Ofllcer Mora was smoked out of his hiding place In the heart of the residence resi-dence clfon of the city this afternoon and literally shot to pieces WANTEDTO BURN BODY Tremendous excitement reigned in New Orleans as the battle went on between be-tween tho police and citizens and tho negro with his Winchester After the tragedy was over and Charles was dragged out from the mud and slush in which lie had fallen with the mob howling for the burning ochl body statements were made that the man killed was not really desperado who had killed Day and Lamb but papers found on his person and the fact that he fought so desperately for his life and shot so accurately seem to leave little doubt that he was the man TWO OFFICERS SHOT DOWN Sergt Gabo Porteus one of the best known officers on the force and Corp Lally who has a record for bravery were informed during the day by a I I negro that Charles was in hiding In a 1 house in Clio near Saratoga street I The olllcers summoned a number of patrolmen to their assistance and went to the house The negro Informant of the policemen accompanied the oflicers They entered sldoallcy IcadingiS the house and were served like Day and Lamb The negro vas hidden behind I be-hind a screen and began a furious and accurate lire Lally fell with a bulletin bullet-in the abdomen Porteus was shot l through the head l and dropped dead across the body of Lally The other officers and the negro fled from the scene CALLS FOR REINFORCEMENTS The report of Charless Winchester and the fact that the two officers lay bleeding in the yard raised tremendous tremend-ous excitement Hurry calls were sent to the Mayor the Chief of Police and Col Wood in command of the special pOlIce and armed hosts were rushed to the scene In a little while there was an immense crowd BOY SHOT DEAD In the meantime Father Fitzgerald St Johns church was summoned to administer extreme unction to the police I po-lice officers who were dying In the alley The priest was annotating the body of Porteus with Alfred Bloom fleld J a young boy standing by his side when Charles again appeared at the window The lad saw him and begged the desperado not to shoot him The negro however fired his Winchester again and Bloomfield fell dead The priest unhurt left the scene after pluckily performing the last offices for the dead officer MORE SHOTS FROM DESPERADO When the ambulance arrived two men volunteered to go into the alley and bring out the body of Lally They entered and while they were attempting attempt-ing to take the body of tho dead officer f com that of his colleague Charles fired again The men got Lallys body out and afterward took Porteuss body out also In the meantime an Immense crowcl bad gathered In the vicinity and schemes were set on foot to get Charles out of the building FOUGHT FOR HIS LIFE Charles however did not propose to be captured without selling his life dearly Time after time he came to the window and as men one by one entered the alley he blazed away at them In this manner Confectioner Lecklerc who was one of the special police squad exPoliceman Evans John Banville and George H Lyons son of tho head ol a dry goods establishment were wounded MORE MEN SLAIN At this time the extra police began to fire at the negro and ho returned their fire Andy Van Kuren keeper of the police jail got a bullet In his body and fell dead Just afterward II H Ball aged Co working for the Mutual Benevolont association was hit and mortally wounded bout the samo time Frank Bertuccl received a shot In the left shoulder and J W Bofel one In the right hand BURNING DESPERADO OUT Ultimately it was decided that tho cflly way to get Charles out was to burn the building in which he was In trenched There were however some scruples about resorting to this method the district being densely populated But it was determined that the fire department should be called out to protect surrounding property At the moment of apparent Indecision Inde-cision some one went to a neighboring grocery purchased a can of oil and pouring it over the rear steps of the building applied a match and soon started a fire DESPERADO SHOT BY SOLDIER It became evident very soon that no human being could live In the building and picked men from the police spuad and soldiers stationed themselves about the building in order to pick off the desperado as he attempted to leave the house A young soldier named Adolph Anderson a member of the Thirteenth Company of State militia was one of the first to seo Charles as lIe left the steps Charles ran across the yard and as he did so Anderson fired several times lie shot the negro In the breast and Charles fell and died soon afterward after-ward I LITERALLY SHOT TO PIECES As soon as the negro fell numbers < of persons armed with Winchesters and I revolvers rushed in and fir4H into the body Charles was literally shot to pieces After it was certain that he was dead a mob entered the yard and dragged the body into the street There the police and the mob emptied their revolvers Into the corpse while a son of one of the murdered men rushed up and stamped the face beyond recognition recogni-tion There were loud shouts that the body should be taken to a vacant square in tho vicinity and publicly burned At this Instant however a big squad of police arrived a patrol wagon Thousands of persons congregated congre-gated in the vicinity and It looked like there would be a clash I POLICE REGAIN COURAGE I I The police somehow seemed to have regained their cqurage and promptly pushed the crowd aside picked up the body and threw it into the patrol wagon Tho driver whipped up his horses and the wagon started off with 6000 people running after it and clamorIng clamor-Ing for the cremation of the body of the desperado The wugon was faster than the mob and it ultimately made its way in safety to police headquarter There an Immense crowd had gathered J and great difficulty was experienced in taking the corpse of the negro from the wagon Into the morgue When Charless body was stripped it was found to have been literally lacerated from head to foot by the bullets Shortly after the body had been placed upon the marble slab In the I morgue a negro woman who was alleged al-leged to have known Charles Intimately Intimate-ly I came to the morgue and after regarding re-garding tho body carefully declared it was not that of Charles but that of his brother Sly Jackson Later however how-ever Joseph Stassi a responsible Italian positively identified It as that of the murderer of Day and Lamb Shortly after the body of Charles had been taken away a report spread that there were still some negroes in the burning building The square was quickly surrounded by a guard of mert with Winchesters and a special sqUad mado its way Into the burning building build-ing In a room which the fire had not yet reached three negroes were found dressed in womens clothes They were hustled out and sent to jail in a patrol wagon Subsequently a fourth negro a mulatto mu-latto was discovered in the building He made a desperate resistance and while In the hands of the police was killed by a shot fired from a pistol In the hands of one of the disorderly mob that had congregated in the vicinity UNKNOWN NEGRO MOBBEDT Just about the time that Charless body reached the morgue the body ot an unknown negro who had been shot and slabbed to death on Gallatin street was carried in This negro was passing the French market when he was seen by a crowd of white men all intensely excited by tho news of flic killing of Porteus and others and they immediately imme-diately mobed him The unknown negro ran for his life and the angry I mob kept at his heels the crowd increasing in-creasing in numbers every minute The negro finally succeeded In entering a house on Gallatin street He ran upstairs up-stairs and jumped from the gallery to the ground Before he could rise the mob shot and stabbed him to death In all twelve persons were killed Including one woman and twentyeight wounded Including a woman and a girl some so seriously that death Is probable Is the casualty list of the troubles which began with the attempt of Policemen Day and Lamb to arrest the negroes Charles and Pierce The fresh violence of today has revived re-vived the turbulence of the unruly element ele-ment and added strength to their forces The citizens police force has reached over 1000 Four companies of State militia are under arms and are guarding the prison and other Important Import-ant points The general belief Is that the force on hand is ample to suppress the lawless element |