Show SPERATE NEGRO HOLDS OFFICERS OFFICERS- I I. AT BAY AND KILLS FOUR OF THEM Fired and Slayer Burned to Death Three Es Es- gaping aping Negroes Are Shot Down wn by the Mob 1 Ga May 17 Four 17 Four white men and throe three e negroes roes dead white te men and one negro wounded and an entire hock block of Is the result or of a conflict that thit b began tegan sa here early foda today he police and blacks William Wiliam Richardson ichards n who ho is is b believed 1 to been half Indian and half hair negro the owner o of a store in McDaniel t the suburb of or Pittsburg and and four other negroes bro brought on 4 rouble by resisting arrest and defying defying- officers o Fulton county and f ead Edward Batee a bailiff of Fulton county H H. G. G Osborne f 4 iceman of Fulton county Thomas Thonas Grant a city policeman Edward Edard Edwardf f f fa fa a city policeman Will ViII Richardson the negro desperado who f 4 r r th thee men Milton Rosby a negro who attempted to escape from froma 4 fn n i unknown negro killed in a nearby yard f be gist between the officers and the negroes oe occurred iii in Pittsburg f PO settlement directly south of the city limits on McDaniel street tre t. t f 4 officers officers att attempted to arrest five negroes suspected of or having beaten f er policeman Kerlin nearl nearly neaily to death yesterday esterday aft afternoon The The oes resisted ed arrest by entrenching themselves in a house and th the re resulted 4 y 4 4 1 4 4 4 4 4 I F THE OFFICERS LL AT THE CRACK OF OP j EGBO'S NEGROS TRUSTY GUN NT T t Ga a. a May tay 17 Yesterday D a wh vh Ie Ic returning to his home road former fonner Police Police- A. A K was waylaid by five with whom he had had trouble member of the force But for j ival iva of a trolley car which s assailants away Kerlin ve ye been een killed A sergeant slat aLa sta- Fort t McPherson found Kerlin ts Located night County Policeman Gold- Gold I Kerlins Kerlin's five assailants Ile tied in a hou house e on McDaniel Chastened i to the city and seIr sett se se- se- se tt Ir arrant ant for their arrest i a Golden was joined by om- om b ba and Cheshire and andt of or Kerlins Kerlin's n neigh neigh- ud ng Owen Heard the party iSh 1 rhe hiding place of the the ne neing ne- ne riving at o'clock th this this- S jn ing ct m. m officers cers cers approached the house fire and Ov Owen en Heard I ground He Was vas borne out b is companions co The house nc nee ce surrounded by the posse was awaited for another officers having determined d dh h arrests unaided The house iSrie on-e on ie of the negroes named m mj vas as located belonged to An- An 1 irn fl also colored Richardson e store adjoining the house I ept ammunition and guns and andre fore re e well prepared for a fight latched Sock k this morning the little who had watched the ight approached the place and those within to surrender f If ey y a volley of shots lr ich tx h killed Officer Bat- Bat I tacking party retreated some ind md from behind trees and tel 1 poles commenced firth fir fir- I th the store In a few minutes he house was thrown open im King a negro ran out and eds ed- dJ Inside the house Rich Rich- id an unobstructed view in j ns 1 Icbm Icbms 0 s 5 away Policeman Thomas Thomasl l 10 s among those summoned B stepped from his his shelter o ohe he e house A shot rang out d house and Grant fell l ng party hastily sent word 1 and Chief of Po- Po the reserves to the i. i everal ral eral patrol patro wagons m. m MB ers s determined to make use of negro who had surrendered I appoint point of a Winchester the they 1 mp tP p walk up to the rear of the there re it As soon as the flames the officer eager to toni ni tes of the house stepped tr r shelter in every direction re t was a shot from the house o ome me it was Officer Edward Edwardo who o met death ant later there was a third County Policeman Robert Os- Os Bead ead Out 1 Joking ing had by this time at at- of or people and nearly IJ who came to the scene car- car shooting Into the house ral citizens and officers fir- fir iii- iii noler ier advised by telephone of or Jh ordered out the milt mil mil- t AW W W. 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W Barker of or the Fifth vas was ordered to proceed with th arid and pd a platoon gun to the scene anti and operate co with the and the Sheriff of Ful- Ful r rounded J k on a a. street car ene ne' ne neof or of those who hurried to toi i As he was nearing the was Js shot in the right hip prey pre- pre by liY y Richardson A negro cab- cab ing trig a spectator to the vicinity lUng was hit in the hand b by tall all Officer Spradlin speed- speed 10 scene cene on his bicycle reS re- re in the arm S 1 Fired rado Richardson had b been en j of pf r. r The house burned rapid- rapid lumber of or inmates tes were seen seene the e store to a a. woodshed and 1 Orders were quickly given y building into which the 1 been driven iven and in a few r buildings were burning i runs through this L lie he city cit Va was utilized by two groes as 1 i L possible means of f fUt Ut to no avail dil victim had increased until at I people 2000 of whom at l least leas st were armed surrounded the burning area Soon from the mouth of the sewer Miltn nos Rosby by a negro was was sonto son to emerge A shout went up and the fleeing negro who struck out over an adjacent lot t was Jing ng pursued Shot after shot rang out and in a few minutes minutes min mEn utes he fell dead The pursuing party quickly surrounded him and filled his bod body with lead He was literally shot to pieces Fifth Vi Victim tim The he crowd of enraged citizens had scarcely finished this work when another another another an an- other neg negro o was seen coming out of the sewer seuer He tob too made a mn tUIl for life and managed to get into ito the back yard of one of the neighboring ring homes where surrounded by several several head head of cattle he was filled with lead The fire started by br attacking part party party par par- t ty spread rapidly and soon the entire block of ot buildings nearly all negro hous houses was as destro destroyed d. d Round Round- Round Up tp of Ne Negroes oes Th The p police were a attesting the few r negroes f th the the- vicinity it r ram am among ng them Steve Nesbit and nd Jim Singleton Singleton Singleton Sin Sin- gleton believed to be members of Richardson's Richardsons gang The The- police had eat gj-eat t difficulty jn get getting ing out of the crowd of ot enraged people with the colored colored colored col col- col- col ored men A mob of 2000 surged a around the patr l wagon for the life of the men under arrest The officers throwing their men into the bottom of the wagon drew their revolvers forced their way through the crowd and twenty minutes later lodged their prisoners prisoners pris pris- in the county Burned in iii His Eis House In less than an an hour the block of or wooden houses was waa burned to the ground and a sear search h of the ruins i wasI was I b begun gun In a woodshed woodshed- in the rear of Richardsons Richardson's store was vas found a skull and near it the steel barrel carrel of a rifle It It is believed ved that the skull represented represented represented all aU that that left is left of the negro who did the shooting The police believe they have ar arrested arrested arrested ar- ar rested all the negroes negroes negroes' d directly concerned concerned concerned con con- but have given orders to bring into cust custody y all suspicious characters The rioting caused the utmost excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment not only in the little suburb of Pittsburg where it occurred but all the over the city |