Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-04-26 | Page 2 | Dead at Hempstead Now Number Four

Dead at Hempstead Now Niimber Four Son of Ono Victim Charged With Killing Congressman Rangers Control Town. HEMPSTEAD, Trx. April 36. As a re-r-iilt of Mie bloody battle here lat night when four men were killed and others were wounded. Hempstead Is tonight under un-der tho control of the Texas rangers Adjutant Genernl Arrives. Martial law ha not been declared, but the Adjutant-General arrived tonight With a number of rangers and assumed charge of affairs. No one Is permitted to bear mmi and the excitement manifested throughout the day has quieted tonight, end further trouble Is unlikely Young Brown Is Anestcd. Rolland Brown, son of one of the men klll.,1 at the Prohibition mass meeting last night, wan today placed under ar-icsi ar-icsi on a eh,irK of llrlnK tbe shot which killed Representative Plncknej He Stated that his father was under the Influence f Intoxicants when he entered the meeting, and that he tthc snn attempted at-tempted to dissuade him from nttendins His father was firm In his Intention and went to the meeting The son followed atxl took part In the shooting How Trouble Began. It has been established that the trouble began when Capl Brown attempted to secure recogntlon to speak at the meeting. meet-ing. It Is iMild that his language was offensive to several ladies present., and the fusilladi began soon after Congressman Plnckney was shot four times, and was almost Instantly killed. Thomas Pint ktu y. a brother of the t'on-gressman, t'on-gressman, was shot twice in the bae k nnd killed, and t'ant. Urown received a bulb t through the heart John K Mills, ihe fourth victim, took no part In the affair, af-fair, ami was accidentallj killed by a stray bullet Result of Prohibition Movement. The killings are the direct result of a prohibition mnetnent In Waller county, Whit h was begun some cars ago, anil the feeling has been Intense An ee: Hon was held in Waller county April 80, and the Prohibitionists, with whom ih Plnckneys were affiliated, were successful success-ful I In- Prt hlbltlopist league was called together last night to wind up its affairs anl dlshnnd Brown Sought Recognition. A resolution requesting the Governor of Texuf to send troops to Waller county for the purpose uf enforcing the law against liquor sellers waa excltedlv debated de-bated It was at this juncture that t'apt Brown, who had figured prominently as an antl-prohobltlonlst, sought to have the chairman recognize him, and soon afu-i-ward the llrlnK began