Show CAIRO NER k FRESH RIOT Statement of Negroes That Tat They Tey I Fired on Whites Stirs Public Feeling ILLINOIS CITY OIT TREMBLES ON VERGE OF OE OF OUTBREAK Town ToW Practically Under Marti Marial Law With Three Thre Hundred Men M n Streets Cairo Ills nie Ia Feb 19 Statements t by negro ngo deputy sheriffs today i day at atthe atthe the tho coroners Investigation Inv of or to the tho kill killing kl killing ing of Alexander Halda that they fired frd several seral shots shot Into Into the mob that was wa ag demanding admission slon to the county Jail jai and court house bonse Thursday night t has renewed the agi agitation tation and the situation tonight IB Is acute Three hundred militiamen began patrolling the te streets street at dusk In an anticipation of or trouble trouble The town Is practically under martial law Tho The coroners Inquest resolved resolve itself Ael into moro more of ora a grand gand jury quiz QUi than the usual formal proceedings before a coroner The fhe Jurymen mostly moUr bust buBl n men could hardly restrain re them themselves tem themselves selves sch s when whon the ilie negroes were on the thes th stand taid s tn 1 r Six She Negroes Marked Questions were showered sho ered on th the witnesses In such sch rapidity by the tG jurymen that the negroes quickly be became b became came confused as well Voel aa as B alarmed Tho Jurymen tried to learn lear which of ot the negroes fired fred the steel Jacketed bullot hulot that tt killed They got sot admissions that the negro dopa deputies ties tes fired Indiscriminately into Int th te the crowd with Ith shotguns and ad revolvers but none non would admit having used a a Swiss Shi rifle with wih which It IB is 1 supposed Halda was waa killed Tho The inquiry was adjourned until Monday afternoon after sIxteen wit wIt witnesses nesses were examined The six ne no nc groes I who participated In the firing on the tho are e said to t bo be 1 marked mk d mon men DOW now that their names mimes loe have tic e c come om public I Sheriff WC Weeps pl The killing WIng of or one white man and the tho wounding of several others othes at atthe atthe atthe the hands bands ha d of or negroes has brought out protests pretests from oven even the te conservative element elemet Sheriff Nellie Nels testified at the Inquest that he had bad negroes because beuse he be could not flat find his biD regular deputies nor the tha Cairo militia company officers officer nor white hUe men who would answer his call for help Tears ran down dow the sheriffs cheeks cheol aa as n ho lie told of or his desperate efforts to find men mea to assist him In I protect protecting jag ing Il his hi prisoners He declared that the Cairo militia company compan Company Compa K K was wa notified before 10 Thursday to report to him Im ira Immediately mediately to protect the Jail jan The Tho company did not put In an appear apper anne until unU six hours later Blames Governor Nellie Nels said he obeyed the orders of ot Governor Doneen In leaving Halll Hal days rys body In the te snow In front of at tho the courthouse for tor three hours bours before permitting It to bo be removed 1 He also insisted that somo some ono one In fn Inthe Inthe I Ithe the mob fired the first shot which J at by b his head and said sd his men mistaking the shot for tor his sig aig signal 81 i nal fired fred first Into the te air all and then thea into the tho tr crowd This statement was contradicted by bj George Georte Jackson Jaclson a ne negro ne negro gro gre who insisted that the sheriff sherif fir fired fired fired ed the first shot shot Jackson Charles Huson Henry Douglas and T A Head HeId aro are tho ne no negro nc gro sro deputies admitting firing frIng Into tho mob The witnesses said the ic mob lender wore gunnysacks nn over their heads with holes holos cut through for eyes Woman Has Encounter Mrs Rose Rosa Maloney Minney lal ne whose pocket pocketbook pocketbook book was urns al snatched by br John Pratt Prat the negro tho the mob was after Thursday night had a n 11 second encounter with a negro today tod y She lost a diamond brooch br h and when whon she sho hearth heard that a negro had hd found It I went to his home She recovered the Jewelry but hut the iran insisted ho he did not noL Intend to todeal t deal R n 1 Drawing a revolver from hor her muff ml she placed It against his hll stomach and said Hald z You know knew It was mine mino whoa when you ou found H it I you Ol Say Sn Sa you YOI did cil quick or m tn shoot shoot The he negro then said he lie did recognize nize It I J Li |