Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1903 — Bad Times at Evansville. [ARTICLE]

Bad Times at Evansville.

4 Seven persons were killed and ** from 36 to 60 wounded at Evansville, Monday night, as a result of the attempt of a mob to break into the county jail, to get at various negro criminals confined there, and especially one Robert * Lee, who was supposed to be there but who had been removed to Vinoennes for safe keeping. Last Friday Louis N. Massey, a popular and faithful polioeman was killed by Lee, will Massey was trying to f arrest him, and Lee was probably mortally wounded. This act oaused a culmination of the bad feel; ing towards the negroes in Evans* ville, on account of many erimes laid to their charge, and rioting been going on ever since, with attemps to break open the jail which was guarded by a oompany of militia. Monday night the attempts of the mob beoame so determined that a » battfe took plaoe, in which many shots were fired, and seven rioters or spectators were killed • and many others wounded. Several other militia companies were hurried to Evansville, byorder of Gov. Durbin, and the 7 danger of further trouble is probably over. Tuesday evening an order came from Indianapolis for Company M. to be kept in uniform and with arms and accoutrements in order, and to be ready to start for Evansville at any moment. The order to start however has not oome nor is there much probability of its being issued. Knapp Lived in Porter County. The human monster, Alfred Enapp, the ex-convict, who confessed that lie had killed his wife and a soore of other people, is on trial for his life at Hamilton, Ohio. His mother testified in his behalf | and disclosed the fact that the Enapp family had onoe lived in Porter county. Mrs. Enapp said that her son was kicked in the head by a oolt when six years of age while living near Valparaiso, and that he was unoonsoious for days thereafter, and oomplained of *1 pain in the head. Later he fell out of a mow and again injured his head. Brain fever followed. Another time he was struok on the bead with a base ball bat and seriously hurt, Mrs. Enapp said that son was always known as "“Looney Enapp.” The effort of the defense is to establish insanity. Suoh a list of aooidents on the head looks like a fixed-up story, and that it had been fixed too well to be believed.