NEGRO RUNS AMOK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 113, 4 July 1911, Page 5

NEGRO RUNS AMOK.

John Cain, a middle-aged negro, quarrelled with some whites on the platform of an elevated train in New York, on May 13, and on leaving the station ran amok, shooting with a revolver and stabbing indiscriminately. He killed, two inoffensive married men, and injured eight other people, including children, one of whom has since died. The raw began when Gain was told to stop smoking, and reached its climax when a white man slapped his face. The negro had just been released from gaol, where lie bad served nine years for homicide. He shouted, “No black man in America gets a ■ square deal! To h with the whites!” Then commenced a career of shuighcr. First Cain stabbed a man at the station door, then, running away. He was pursued by a crowd, and stabbed and shot anyone with reach. Several men closed with the negro, but lie eluded them. The race lasted twenty minutes, the crowd growing larger and larger all the time. Some persons drew pistols, but the bullets missed their mark. Most people gave way to the negro, who hacked a path with his right arm and flourished the revolver with his left. Finally a bicycle policeman hove in sight. The officer dismounted and produced his army cavalry revolver. The negro made a tack in the opposite direction, whereupon tlie policeman fired, striking him in the small of the back. The crowd closed in and wanted to lynch the negro, who lay bleeding on the ground. A posse of police arrived, and took him to the police station in an ambulance.

lii the police station, the negro, though wounded, was in a boastful humour, and evidently enjoyed his notoriety. When lie failed to punish the white man who first struck him, because the other people in the train kept him away, he admitted becoming wild with rage. He expressed no regret when told that three of his victims were already dead, and that one, would possibly be dead before the evening. “I know,” said Cain, “I’ll he electrocuted, but I don’t care. AH I want is the loan of a revolver, and I’ll kill mvsolf.”

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