TROUBLE IN ELMORE COUNTY
- Title
- TROUBLE IN ELMORE COUNTY
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Selma Times-Journal
- Publication Place
- Selma, AL
- Publication Date
- 11/11/1912
- Transcript
- TROUBLE IN ELMORE COUNTY Bad Negroes Cause Seriou Trouble After Insulting Youn Women. Wetumpka, Nov. 10.-One negro is killed and a posse of infuriate citizens in the neighborhood o Floyd, Elmore County, are hunting a second negro with the aid of the State penitentiary dogs tonight. Th two negroes earlier in the day killed John Christizberg, an Elmore Coun ty farmer, and later one of them Berney, killed Claude Kidd, one of his pursuers. It is learned here that Mr. Chrisitzberg's two daughters were on their way to church when they met the two negroes, driving in an opposite direction. The young women drove as far to the side of the road as possible, but the wheels of the vehicle driven by the negroes locked those of the Miss Christzberg's buggy, causing the horse to run away. A party of young men passing by, repaired the harness, and took the two young women to church, and returned to punish the two negroes They informed Mr. Chrisitzberg, who joined them in the pursuit of the negroes. Overtaking two negroes in advance of his party, Mr. Chrisitzberg at- tempted to horse whip both, when one of them shot Mr. Chrisitzberg through the body, inflicting serious, if not fatal, wounds. After the shooting the negroes took to the woods, and it was necessary to get the penitentiary dogs to follow. A large number of the citizens joined in the man hunt. The occupants of a negro cabin stated that the parties sought were not there. Believing the negroes to be secreted about the cabin some of them went inside and noticed a loft overhead. Claude Kidd, one of the pursuers, mounted a rickety table, while some of his campanions held it, and with a pole pushed up one of the planks of the loft. As he did so, a pistol shot from the loft rang out and Mr. Kidd fell to the table dead, the ball striking him in the top of the head, coming out under the lower jaw. Those in house came out and made the negro owner of the cabin bring Mr. Kidd's body out. They told the negro to go back and tell the negro that did the shooting to come out or they would burn the house. The negro refused to come out, threatening to kill the owner of the premises it he came back. The crowd proceeded to set fire to the cabin, the negro seeing that he would be burned, made a dash for liberty, shooting at the crowd as he ran. Fortunately no one was struck. The negro was killed, his body being completely riddled with bullets. The second negro made his escape. Mr. Chrisitzberg is about fifty-five years old, and Mr. Kidd is a man of about thirty-five or forty and with a family.
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