Bradshaw Brings Opp Rioters Here

BRADSHAW BRINGS OPP RIOTERS HERE Six Negroes Charged with Shooting Marshal’s Party Are Here. Sheriff Tells of Riot. Nine of the twenty-five negroes arrest “Friday morning 1 telegraphed the ed for killing J. W. Dorsey and seriously Governor that everything was quiet. Soon after sending this telegram re- wounding Town Marshal Fate Atkinson ceived information through one of the of Opp. last Wednesday, were ordered to most rellable citizens of Opp that mob jail without ball at Andalusia yesterday of one hundred determined men was after a preliminary hearing and six of organized; that they would be heavily armed and that they would attack the them were brought to Montgomery last Andalusia jall Friday night, felt that night and lodged in the county jall. we should not take chances and as the Three others in jail at Geneva. Six- information was so direct and reliable teen of the negroes were discharged. wired the Governor asking for soldiers believe now that their arrival alone Sheriff J. T. Bradshaw of Covington saved Covington County from a great county, who brought the negroes to tragedy Montgomery, reports that the situation at “Please let me say right here that I Andafusia and Opp is quiet and that never saw a more capable, more deter- mined nor * more accommodating officer Marshall Atkinson is still alive. than Captain Arthur Gamble of the The negroes were brought to Montgom- Greenville military company. He brought ery by Sheriff Bradshaw, W. S. Prest fifty-two men to Andalusia. They were wood and G. W. Duncan, Deputy Sheriffs. well disciplined and they weer of the greatest service to us. Captain Gamble One of the negroes, Frank Davis, is personally supervised the guarding of the so badly wounded that he had to be jall and the men semed to go about their brought to Montgomery on a stretcher work with enthuslasm There was no and it is expected that he will die. He shirking and the young men of Green- ville who form this company, won the is said to have been one of the leaders of admiration of our best citizens. the party of negroes which attacked Mar- “We expected the mob Friday night shal Atkinson and he was riddled with and were prepared for it. There were sev- bullets by the arresting posse. oral stragglers about the town and some The military company sent to Andalu- few persons in Andalusia from Opp. but sia from Greenville remained there until there was not the slightest suggestion the trial of the negroes yesterday morn- of trouble. Again Saturday night it look- ing and returned to Greenville on the ed gloomy for a while and there were same train which transported Sheriff startling reports but we had ourselves Bradshaw, his deputies and their prison- fixed any one or any party which at- ers to Montgomery This train left An- tempted to violate the law. dalusia at 12:30 o’clock yesterday. The “Solleitor R. H. Parks of Troy reached military company and the officers and Andalusia Friday night, coming there their prisoners remained at Georgiana upon my request through the Governor until the arrival of the northbound Lou- and we decided to have the preliminars isville and Nashville passenger train. The trials of the negroes Monday morning Sheriff reached Montgomery with the This was agreeable to the Solleitor and prisoners about 6 o’clock. the trials took place this morning, before The negroes in the Montgomery county L. J. Salter and M. Snead, Justices of jall are Dick Davis, Edwin Powell, Tom the Peace. In his speech Solicitor Parks English, Jeff Taylor, Emanuel Casty and said that he would ask the Governor to Frank Davis. The negroes in the Geneva call special term of the Ctreuit Court county jail are Bud McIntosh, Will Chat- ao that the negroes might, have speedy man and an unknown negro. These tria). Sixteen of the negroes were releas- groes will remain in jail until special ed and were taken in charge by their term of the Circuit Court of Covington employers, Rozier and Williams under- county can be convened to give them a stand they were to leave Andalusia for Opp last night. trial. In an interview with a representative “Do you fear any further trouble on of The Advertiser Sheriff Bradshaw, who account of these negroes being released? stayed last night at Mabson’s Hotel, gave Sherift Bradshaw was asked. a complete history of the Covington coun- “Candidly, I do,’ the Sherift replied. ty troubley “Feeling is running high against the Wednesday evening five negroes, Dick groes at Opp and if return there Davis, Frank Davis, Sam Carter, WIII tonight there is no telling what may Chatman and Dave Morrison, went to happen. I arranged for deputies to go Opp, said Sheriff Bradshaw “The ne- there in a hurry before I left home to- groes had been drinking whiskey. They day.” were employed at the turpentine still Sheriff Bradshaw is a big man of In- of Rozier and Williams about half telligence. He has keen piercing eyes and mile from Opp and they went up to the direct and convincing of speech. little town make trouble. Remarking He does not hesitate when he tells that that they had come up there to ‘do the meant to protect his prisoners at all town up.’ they got into difficulty with hazards and the Covington county mob Joe Stanley, a young white man. The probably knew that he was a man of negroes presented pistols and raised a his word when the question of storming general disturbance, after which they re- the jall was under consideration. turned to their shanties at the turpen- “The Governor expressed himself as well satisfied with the manner in which tine still. “Stanley reported the matter to Fate you handled the case,” the Sheriff was Atkinson, the Town Marshal, who depu- told. tized Joe Stanley, J. Wilson Dorsey, John “I’m glad to hear that,” replied Sheriff Fitzsimmons and Marcus Snow, promi- Bradshaw. “We had to exercise consid- nent citizens of the town, to go with erable skill and activity to escape trou- ble before leaving Opp but after we got him to arrest the negroes. “When the arresting party, led by the negraes in the jall I mean to keep Marshal Atkins, got near the shanty they them there, and did.’ discovered there was a big crowd Sheriff Bradshaw and his deputies will negroes there. About the time the Mar- call this morning at the Capito] to re- shal’s posse got within fifteen or twenty port personally to Governor Jelks the feet of the shanty the negroes opened result of their work They will return to fire. Then the shooting began from both Andalusia at 3:45 o’clock this afternoon. sides “Wilson Dorsey fell. He was killed GREAT GIFT TO EDUCATION almost instantly. Marshal Atkinson was the next to receive fatal wound, but Andrew Carnegie to Give $10,000,000 he was game and called to his men to go to University Extention. after the negroes. Fitzsimmons was Chicago Dec. 9.-A dispatch to The badly wounded in two places in the right Record Herald from Washington says: leg. Two negroes, Jim Hippens and an Andrew Carnegie to give $10,000,000 to unknown, were killed. It was in this cause University extension in the fight that Frank Davis, the negro whom United States. Announcement of this we brought to Montgomery was danger- the on Tuesday. Mr. Car- great_gift to education will be made ously wounded. He may die. negie was in few days ago “About o’elock Wednesday night re- and took luncheon with President ceived telegram from Earl Boyett, velt, when details of the plan were fully young merchant at Opp. which fifteen discussed. miles south of Andalusia, advising me of Mr. Carnegie has thought best to ere- the shooting and asking me to go there ate national board to handle this mu- President Roose- with deputies and to bring my blood velt probably will name such a board hounds. There was no train and took for Mr. least set mo- my men and my dogs and went through tion the which shall lead t the country reaching Opp about mid- a national organization. Mr. Carnegle is in Washington night. ‘At daylight the next morning we went or and fuller de- to the negro shanty and captured several tails of this gigantic enterprise will soon become public. of the negroes. number of them had Nicholas Murray Butler, who has suc- left for the woods and put my dogs ceeded Seth Low at the head of Colum- and men on their trail. It was nip and bia College, has been Washingt for tuck all day between the deputies and two days, President Roose men who wanted to lynch the negroes. velt the White House, and he has We ran three of the negroes with the aided perfecting the plans. Mr. But- 1er left for New York yesterday after- dogs sixteen miles through swamps and noon, and before refused to give pine forests and captured them within any particulars beyond the information three miles of Flba in Coffee County Another negro, Dick Davis, belleved to that an would.be made on Tuesday at the White have been one of the leaders of the party According to the plans prepared by which assaulted the town marshal, was Mr. Carnegle and his advisers, the na- chased by the dogs several miles into tional organization is to have its head- quarters in Washingt but its opera- the swamp. They lost his trial and he are to extend throughout the made complete circuit of more than United States, the work to be carried mile, hiding within a few hundred feet on in co-operation with universities ev- of the shanty where his brother, Frank erywhere. Davis, was lying seriously wounded The dogs got so close on his trail that WILL TAX FLOUR raised up out of big bunch of grass and surrendered to the deputies Brazil Owes the United States No “The dogs and deputies chased Bud Mc- Favors Intosh, Will Chatman and another negro New York, Dec. 9.-The Senate contin- soutward in the direction of Geneva and ues the discus of the proposed flour captured them. The mob was between duty, cables the Rio Janeiro, them and Opp and had them cut off from ent Herald the rest of my party and the deputies the United States did not deservi special exercised excellent discretion by taking favors from Brazil. He the free admission razilian coffee was the three negroes to the Geneva jall, due onlv to the fact that no Amerlean where they are now confined. Geneva is that colony the United States would was producing this article and . thirty-five miles south of Opp. “We put the negroes in the calaboose modify its attitude if one of its colonies at Opp as fast as we rounded them up produced enough coffee. He added that and kept the calaboose heavily guarded the pending bill could not _change any- thing Argentine proba- to prevent an outbreak or other trouble. bly would use barrels instead of bags for When we had caught twenty-two of the the export of flour Senator Barcellos negroes we took them the jall in interrupted Senater Leite, saying “Then dalusia. Only two of those who had been we will adopt other measures. active in the asasult upon the marshal escaped. They are Sam Carter and Dave CHILI SENDS NOTE Morrison. They are still at large. Citi- zens of Opp are looking for them and I Argentine Orders Mobilization of fear there will be trouble if they are Naval Reserves. caught. It will require good work on our part to prevent them from being lynched. New York, Dec. 9.-The Argentine gov- ernment has received new note from “When got the prisoners in the jail Chili, Buenos Ayres correspon- at Andalusia put on extra deputies and dent Herald. Great secrecy took extraordinary precautions to protect maintained, but the note is evidently not the negroes. The jail is secure, but favorable. because after the there is no jail yard and the building is covernment of Congress and ordered the called the Foreign Relations easy of approach. There was no sem- blance of trouble Thursday night, reserves. mobilization of the first and second naval that Congress although we carefully guarded the jail will request the Ministar of Foreign AS- throughout the night. fairs to explain the situation today. BRADSHAW BRINGS OPP RIOTERS HERE Six Negroes Charged with Shooting Marshal’s Party Are Here. Sheriff Tells of Riot. Nine of the twenty-five negroes arrest “Friday morning 1 telegraphed the ed for killing J. W. Dorsey and seriously Governor that everything was quiet. Soon after sending this telegram re- wounding Town Marshal Fate Atkinson ceived information through one of the of Opp. last Wednesday, were ordered to most rellable citizens of Opp that mob jail without ball at Andalusia yesterday of one hundred determined men was after a preliminary hearing and six of organized; that they would be heavily armed and that they would attack the them were brought to Montgomery last Andalusia jall Friday night, felt that night and lodged in the county jall. we should not take chances and as the Three others in jail at Geneva. Six- information was so direct and reliable teen of the negroes were discharged. wired the Governor asking for soldiers believe now that their arrival alone Sheriff J. T. Bradshaw of Covington saved Covington County from a great county, who brought the negroes to tragedy Montgomery, reports that the situation at “Please let me say right here that I Andafusia and Opp is quiet and that never saw a more capable, more deter- mined nor * more accommodating officer Marshall Atkinson is still alive. than Captain Arthur Gamble of the The negroes were brought to Montgom- Greenville military company. He brought ery by Sheriff Bradshaw, W. S. Prest fifty-two men to Andalusia. They were wood and G. W. Duncan, Deputy Sheriffs. well disciplined and they weer of the greatest service to us. Captain Gamble One of the negroes, Frank Davis, is personally supervised the guarding of the so badly wounded that he had to be jall and the men semed to go about their brought to Montgomery on a stretcher work with enthuslasm There was no and it is expected that he will die. He shirking and the young men of Green- ville who form this company, won the is said to have been one of the leaders of admiration of our best citizens. the party of negroes which attacked Mar- “We expected the mob Friday night shal Atkinson and he was riddled with and were prepared for it. There were sev- bullets by the arresting posse. oral stragglers about the town and some The military company sent to Andalu- few persons in Andalusia from Opp. but sia from Greenville remained there until there was not the slightest suggestion the trial of the negroes yesterday morn- of trouble. Again Saturday night it look- ing and returned to Greenville on the ed gloomy for a while and there were same train which transported Sheriff startling reports but we had ourselves Bradshaw, his deputies and their prison- fixed any one or any party which at- ers to Montgomery This train left An- tempted to violate the law. dalusia at 12:30 o’clock yesterday. The “Solleitor R. H. Parks of Troy reached military company and the officers and Andalusia Friday night, coming there their prisoners remained at Georgiana upon my request through the Governor until the arrival of the northbound Lou- and we decided to have the preliminars isville and Nashville passenger train. The trials of the negroes Monday morning Sheriff reached Montgomery with the This was agreeable to the Solleitor and prisoners about 6 o’clock. the trials took place this morning, before The negroes in the Montgomery county L. J. Salter and M. Snead, Justices of jall are Dick Davis, Edwin Powell, Tom the Peace. In his speech Solicitor Parks English, Jeff Taylor, Emanuel Casty and said that he would ask the Governor to Frank Davis. The negroes in the Geneva call special term of the Ctreuit Court county jail are Bud McIntosh, Will Chat- ao that the negroes might, have speedy man and an unknown negro. These tria). Sixteen of the negroes were releas- groes will remain in jail until special ed and were taken in charge by their term of the Circuit Court of Covington employers, Rozier and Williams under- county can be convened to give them a stand they were to leave Andalusia for Opp last night. trial. In an interview with a representative “Do you fear any further trouble on of The Advertiser Sheriff Bradshaw, who account of these negroes being released? stayed last night at Mabson’s Hotel, gave Sherift Bradshaw was asked. a complete history of the Covington coun- “Candidly, I do,’ the Sherift replied. ty troubley “Feeling is running high against the Wednesday evening five negroes, Dick groes at Opp and if return there Davis, Frank Davis, Sam Carter, WIII tonight there is no telling what may Chatman and Dave Morrison, went to happen. I arranged for deputies to go Opp, said Sheriff Bradshaw “The ne- there in a hurry before I left home to- groes had been drinking whiskey. They day.” were employed at the turpentine still Sheriff Bradshaw is a big man of In- of Rozier and Williams about half telligence. He has keen piercing eyes and mile from Opp and they went up to the direct and convincing of speech. little town make trouble. Remarking He does not hesitate when he tells that that they had come up there to ‘do the meant to protect his prisoners at all town up.’ they got into difficulty with hazards and the Covington county mob Joe Stanley, a young white man. The probably knew that he was a man of negroes presented pistols and raised a his word when the question of storming general disturbance, after which they re- the jall was under consideration. turned to their shanties at the turpen- “The Governor expressed himself as well satisfied with the manner in which tine still. “Stanley reported the matter to Fate you handled the case,” the Sheriff was Atkinson, the Town Marshal, who depu- told. tized Joe Stanley, J. Wilson Dorsey, John “I’m glad to hear that,” replied Sheriff Fitzsimmons and Marcus Snow, promi- Bradshaw. “We had to exercise consid- nent citizens of the town, to go with erable skill and activity to escape trou- ble before leaving Opp but after we got him to arrest the negroes. “When the arresting party, led by the negraes in the jall I mean to keep Marshal Atkins, got near the shanty they them there, and did.’ discovered there was a big crowd Sheriff Bradshaw and his deputies will negroes there. About the time the Mar- call this morning at the Capito] to re- shal’s posse got within fifteen or twenty port personally to Governor Jelks the feet of the shanty the negroes opened result of their work They will return to fire. Then the shooting began from both Andalusia at 3:45 o’clock this afternoon. sides “Wilson Dorsey fell. He was killed GREAT GIFT TO EDUCATION almost instantly. Marshal Atkinson was the next to receive fatal wound, but Andrew Carnegie to Give $10,000,000 he was game and called to his men to go to University Extention. after the negroes. Fitzsimmons was Chicago Dec. 9.-A dispatch to The badly wounded in two places in the right Record Herald from Washington says: leg. Two negroes, Jim Hippens and an Andrew Carnegie to give $10,000,000 to unknown, were killed. It was in this cause University extension in the fight that Frank Davis, the negro whom United States. Announcement of this we brought to Montgomery was danger- the on Tuesday. Mr. Car- great_gift to education will be made ously wounded. He may die. negie was in few days ago “About o’elock Wednesday night re- and took luncheon with President ceived telegram from Earl Boyett, velt, when details of the plan were fully young merchant at Opp. which fifteen discussed. miles south of Andalusia, advising me of Mr. Carnegie has thought best to ere- the shooting and asking me to go there ate national board to handle this mu- President Roose- with deputies and to bring my blood velt probably will name such a board hounds. There was no train and took for Mr. least set mo- my men and my dogs and went through tion the which shall lead t the country reaching Opp about mid- a national organization. Mr. Carnegle is in Washington night. ‘At daylight the next morning we went or and fuller de- to the negro shanty and captured several tails of this gigantic enterprise will soon become public. of the negroes. number of them had Nicholas Murray Butler, who has suc- left for the woods and put my dogs ceeded Seth Low at the head of Colum- and men on their trail. It was nip and bia College, has been Washingt for tuck all day between the deputies and two days, President Roose men who wanted to lynch the negroes. velt the White House, and he has We ran three of the negroes with the aided perfecting the plans. Mr. But- 1er left for New York yesterday after- dogs sixteen miles through swamps and noon, and before refused to give pine forests and captured them within any particulars beyond the information three miles of Flba in Coffee County Another negro, Dick Davis, belleved to that an would.be made on Tuesday at the White have been one of the leaders of the party According to the plans prepared by which assaulted the town marshal, was Mr. Carnegle and his advisers, the na- chased by the dogs several miles into tional organization is to have its head- quarters in Washingt but its opera- the swamp. They lost his trial and he are to extend throughout the made complete circuit of more than United States, the work to be carried mile, hiding within a few hundred feet on in co-operation with universities ev- of the shanty where his brother, Frank erywhere. Davis, was lying seriously wounded The dogs got so close on his trail that WILL TAX FLOUR raised up out of big bunch of grass and surrendered to the deputies Brazil Owes the United States No “The dogs and deputies chased Bud Mc- Favors Intosh, Will Chatman and another negro New York, Dec. 9.-The Senate contin- soutward in the direction of Geneva and ues the discus of the proposed flour captured them. The mob was between duty, cables the Rio Janeiro, them and Opp and had them cut off from ent Herald the rest of my party and the deputies the United States did not deservi special exercised excellent discretion by taking favors from Brazil. He the free admission razilian coffee was the three negroes to the Geneva jall, due onlv to the fact that no Amerlean where they are now confined. Geneva is that colony the United States would was producing this article and . thirty-five miles south of Opp. “We put the negroes in the calaboose modify its attitude if one of its colonies at Opp as fast as we rounded them up produced enough coffee. He added that and kept the calaboose heavily guarded the pending bill could not _change any- thing Argentine proba- to prevent an outbreak or other trouble. bly would use barrels instead of bags for When we had caught twenty-two of the the export of flour Senator Barcellos negroes we took them the jall in interrupted Senater Leite, saying “Then dalusia. Only two of those who had been we will adopt other measures. active in the asasult upon the marshal escaped. They are Sam Carter and Dave CHILI SENDS NOTE Morrison. They are still at large. Citi- zens of Opp are looking for them and I Argentine Orders Mobilization of fear there will be trouble if they are Naval Reserves. caught. It will require good work on our part to prevent them from being lynched. New York, Dec. 9.-The Argentine gov- ernment has received new note from “When got the prisoners in the jail Chili, Buenos Ayres correspon- at Andalusia put on extra deputies and dent Herald. Great secrecy took extraordinary precautions to protect maintained, but the note is evidently not the negroes. The jail is secure, but favorable. because after the there is no jail yard and the building is covernment of Congress and ordered the called the Foreign Relations easy of approach. There was no sem- blance of trouble Thursday night, reserves. mobilization of the first and second naval that Congress although we carefully guarded the jail will request the Ministar of Foreign AS- throughout the night. fairs to explain the situation today.