Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-07-19 | Page 2 | Desperate Negro Criminals Beat Guard to Death with His Hoe

9 Desperate Negro Criminals Criminal Beat Bea Guard to Death With His Hoe Houston Tex July 18 As H.-As As the re result 10 1 zo stilt sult sul of a uprising on two of or the state penal farms In South Texas two men are arc known to be dead and six desperate negro criminals areat are aro areat at large armed with wih gun and knife rend ready to slay at nt sight any of the tile men who aro trailing them with blood blood- houn hounds s. s of time Iho surrounding country have o turned out t and ll a a. manhunt man hunt Is In progress ton ten At r. r f o'clock Friday evening e negro convicts on the tha Clement farm In rose us as one man overpowered o th time the guard James Jumes Elliot willie while anti and beat beal him to lo death with wih a hoe Before reinforcements could master the situa situa- tion Will ill Austin A ton l Will WI ili Dow and Joe Joc Westley had escaped lo to tho woods Meeting Georgo George Johnson and und fearing that ho might give gIe P I tho the alarm OW they mortally wO wounded with wih tho the gun gnu they tile thc lInt had token laken from the dead guard Almost simultaneously with the uprising uprising uprising up up- rising at ut tho the Clement farm a a. a squad l lof of negro convicts on tho the farm tarm farmin in iii Fort Bend county count several se miles mie rushed their guard I away awn upon knocked him him unconscious and were verc 0 making off or when intercepted b by other S SRobert guards guard With lh the Iho exception of or two Robert Hobert Ware and anti Will 1 Howard all ni were captured Tho The two have joined the tho party of or four from Iho tho Clement camp and amId according to Information received here have placed tho the county count In a a. state of or terror terrol Tho negroes whose whoso break renk for tor lbert liberty proved unsuccessful unsuccessful un un- successful confessed later that lint tho tile plan had been for tor a general generl uprising of oC the two camps With Hh only sl six criminals al nl lar largo large o it is certain that they will viiI be captured so desperate I Is wi their plight that the they certainly will wI give battle baWl