Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — MOB RULE IN IN NEW ORLEANS. [ARTICLE]

MOB RULE IN IN NEW ORLEANS.

Four Negroes Killed and Many Other* Are Shot. A mob took possession of the streets of New Orleans Wednesday night and before it dispersed of its own accord had hilled four negroqa and wounded a dozen men, three of whom were white. The lawlessness grew out of the murder the day before of two policemen by Robert Charles, a negro. » The mob, several thousand strong, formed at Lee Circle and inarched out Charles avenue in a body. It was reported that the mob would march upon the parish prison and demand the negro Pierce, who was with Charles when ths police-, officers were killed. The police accordingly sent strong re-enforcements a the prison, and when the mob made appearance the leaders were told that an effort to secure the prisoner would be resisted to the end. The members of the mob slowly dispersed, small bands of men and boys forming and scattering to several parts of the city. Many negroes who were on the streets and riding in care were fired on. Just before midnight Acting Mayor Mehle Issued a proclamation calling on all good citizens to aid the authorities in preserving the peace and to let justice take its course. As a result of the night’s lawlessness four men are dead, a score severely wounded, a hundred bruised. Not since the lynching of the Italians several years ago has there been such excitement in New Orleans. The funerals of Captain Day and Patrolman Lamb took place Wednesday afternoon, and this served to intensify the feeling of their friends.