CLAUDE KIDD KILLED PURSUING NEGROES
- Title
- CLAUDE KIDD KILLED PURSUING NEGROES
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Birmingham News
- Publication Place
- Birmingham, AL
- Publication Date
- 11/11/1912
- Transcript
- CLAUDE KIDD KILLED PURSUING NEGROES One of Latter Also Slain in Fight Following Collision of Buggies. WETUMPKA, Nov. 11-Claude Kidd white, was killed by a negro who ran into two young women while driving to church Sunday. near Floyd, Elmore county, 12 miles east. The negro was later killed by infuriated citizens. The two daughters of John Chrisitzberg started to church and on their way met two negroes in the road driving a buggy. The young women gave as much of the public highway as they could, but in passing the rear wheel of the buggy became locked. The horse driven by the young women became frightened and in his fright broke the harness. About this time some young men came up, fixed the harness and accompanied the young women to the church, after which they left to over- take the negroes, some of them going for the father of the young women. Mr. Chrisitzberg became indignant and overtaking the negroes attempted to horsewhip them when one of the negroes drew a pistol, shooting Mr Chrisitzberg through the body, injurIng him seriously, if not fatally. The two negroes then deserted their buggy and took to the woods. In the pursuit of the negroes Kidd, one of the pursuers, was killed.