People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — FIGHTS FIFTEEN WHITE MEN. [ARTICLE]

FIGHTS FIFTEEN WHITE MEN.

Florida Negro Defend* Bi* Family vltk Fatal Effect to Three. Braidentown, Fla., May 13.— Jack Trice, a negro, fought fifteen white men at 3 o’clock Tuesday morning The battle took place at the uegro’a home near Palmetto, and he fought to prevent his 14-year old son being “regulated” by the whites. Monday afternoon Trice’s son and the son of Town Marshal Hughes of Palmetto fought, the white boy being badly beaten. Marshal Hughes was greatly enraged and he and fourteen other white men went to Trice’s house to “regulate” the negro’s little boy. The whites demanded that the boy be sent out. Trice refused and the whites began firing. Trice returned the fire, his first bullet killing Marshal Hughes. Edward Sanchez tried to burn the house, but was shot through the brain by Trice. Then the whites tried to batter in the door with a log, which resulted in Henry Daniels getting a bullet in the stomach' that will kill him. The “regulators’’ then ran, a final bullet from Trice's rifle striking Albert Buffum in the back. The whites secured re-enforce-ments and returned to Trice’s home at sunrise, vowing to burn father and son at the stake, but their intended victims had fled; only Trice’s old mother was in the house. The old woman was driven out and the house burned. Posses with bloodhounds are chasing Trice and tin boy an* they will be lynched if caught.