A Cold Blooded Murder.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 265, 14 November 1885, Page 4

A Cold Blooded Murder.

Chattanooua, September 6th. CUM Williams, a disreputable negro, jhotiM' instantly killed a street-car driver .named ~ Polk Mitchell at 5 o'clock this-afternoon. ■:■ An hour before Williams bad bespjaW-, from a car for entering it in a dnttlra ■ state and smoking in tbe presence of late, and when asked for his fare refusing"); deposit it. Williams swore that he would heve revenge and followed the. carr_ W&ilq i; the driver was waiting on a switch WiHuffl walked up, shot the driver three tilaesj ma.,'.then shot twice at his body in the.tpwjw;;? death. A crowd of citizens pursued to", and he was captured a mile.from ifm aw ; carried to gacl. Mitchell was' recently, , Assistant Chief of Police, and m ™! popular. Intense excitement prevail!,Ma, _ the gaol is closely guarded.,.The^°"£M: taken every precaution to prevent lyncW<- - A larce force of men are keeping g"""* 1 the gaol, and the local military comjpwiw will be called upon if necessary to pre#rt • the peace. The murder wasthettMiib>m"-« and unprovoked that has ever occurred"; •his city. " . --jfChattanooga (Term.), Septobet V- ; Tho bold-blooded murder of Polk Ml* by the negro Charles Willto ■ffi£*X was quickly avenged. Afflob^*,: mined men, mostly composed of.W\. labourers and railroad f™2 ■': shotguns and all other, kinds of JWg > ma-ched about 11 o'clock' last nuMta"; county gaol, followed by severalJJgg £ people, and at once .ta«««HS, tothe gaol. It won appearedtiatßOtmwould deter them, and shooting;iaw^; crowd by the poaae o(.t!«Mffl,; certainly result in killing a wg*" people. So nothing wtf MWS ■ the entrance of the mob,. and door of tho gaol was broken in. D**,would not give up the S:. LJ ite.' is a strong building, is a completo sbeet of hal ™o.™; py^ iron, and the enterances of , W g.,, ; irap'-oved and most ™«sql , ture, and the mob had »ba™ ?W effecting an entrance. For an W"^, ; „• battered at the iron doors. «J?' they succeeded in entering tfie %. ,«•' Williams was, and at 12.ljr»*, he , Tbe .,:.:, hanged to the rafters ' prisoner was taken from hu <^lilgf^ g Spstairs, when his securely tied and a block «•» «g e Hß rt his feet. The lynchers then Mg?^;. and dropped M».»»dJ wstK lS B W.'- i in three minutes. Not a D ,3 the militia, winch bad been.odM*?,, .. all is now quiet. ■,