Show tISI P 1 I I j f I I put UJITFUL CHIME OF A MOII t I J I Postmaster and ITS 14i UId ell i Heat i I 1 41 i i 4 of tho Family guilty Wounilr1 r I 1 t Columbia H C Feb 22The most J 4 revolting ljl revolting crime ever perpetrated by II I i wh its mn I II South Cnroln war rom i i 1 i I 14 milled at iJike City Wllllamsbure 114 ii I 4 I 14I county at I oclock this morning when 1 I I t I I Postmaster linker a negro and Ilia I I I 16 i family were burned out of her home I 1 i 1 i the postmaster and a biilw In arms I killed bin l wife and three daughters lo Knot 1 and maimed for life Baker was appointed postmaster Ill I 11 IN I three months ago Lake City la I a town Irj r Jt I I I of 400 Inhabitants and the negro popu V lation lit the vicinity l In large There I I I 0 wad protest nt fakers appointment I but It Ives not a very vigorous one hl na lf il Three months niro the postriamucter 11 i I I I Ij was leaving the onfciTa t nigh In coin t i P j If J pany with several colored men he was fired on from airtburb I but It Ives not I I 1 V f 1j known who the wouldbe firms Asia was i IS4t I J or Whether I wo prompted hy other i I I vtt than gevrerturial malice Rlncu then 10 11 il I I t I I 7 her moved hi famiy Into a house oil aff 1 I I 1 I 0 Ii J the the outskirts postolllce where ho also established lI I I i Last Tuesday I night a body of men I I I who kept concealed behind buildings 1 t4 I 4 I and ten In the nlghhorhol rid i It died the building with hot arid rifle j d I Ii bullets They shot high and no one was 1 I I I l I i I hurt but It was supposed to convoy II I 14 i IN d warning iT 4 la short time before that Senators I L J It 1 j Tlllman and McLauren and Congress I J i man 10tun halt linked the lolmnlr I 1 ki I Keneral tu remove linker because of his 0 Li r i h I rolcr and I the request hail been refused i 1 V 1 Baker did not move his family and r I rn IJ t I i 1 Y gave no evidence of tf frightened 1 t r I I i Hn felt confident of protection from 1 i t Washington I 1 I ii el At 1 oclock this morning a torch was 0 A li 4 applied I to the postolllce and Iwkcrs L I house Hack just vvllhln the line of I I t 1 light wer over a hundred white men g I j I r armed with pistols and shotguns By 1 the time the I lire niouied the sleeping family consisting of the postmaster I 7 I glfer Il it l I 41 bin wife four daughters u run and nn I I al 1 1 Infant at tile breast the crowd began I t firing Into I the building A hundred W tA Illd I f f il bullet holes were made I throuah the I I I < thIn boarding and ninny found todg 14 j merit In tile people within I Baker was the nt 10 reach the door and he 1 dead Jut within tho I threshold being hot In several places t f Th Inolher had the baby In hr firms I I anti hd reached the door over hr hult I Ianl body villen I bullet nlhed i thruuh its skull 1 arid I fell tl tlo floor She was ohot tn several place Two of the girls had their arms broken i I I co to the shoulder still will probably 1 lose both Another of the girl Is I bed be-d to be fatally Wounded Tile boy 1 also shut Twn ot the Fe v on occu i pants of the house secured with Flight i Injuries The bodies of Tinker and the l i i nnanl were cremated In the building All mall matter was destroyed I A coroners Jury was ballet Ied this I I I N I il i evening and It Molted the clurred remains I i re-mains and adjoutned until Saturday There J Is general bitter I Indignation ex I v r Pressed everyultere |