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YET DESIGNATEDScene of Gun Battle Near Drew in Delta* in Which’ Black Tenant Who Murdered Farmer, EntrenchesHimself in Ditch, Shoots Down Three and Wounds Several Others. Colored Desperado Meets Death. Plans Made to Turn 500 Gallons Gasoline Down Ditch. Trouble Grew Out of Attempt of Farmer toCollect Debt.Woman’s College May Not Name New Business Man-(By Associated Press)a.ger Until After NewYear.mA successor to Knox Waller,business manager of the Mis-Kissippi Woman's College, ivho(lied at liis home here thin*week, hns not been designated* and it is likely that one will not be named until after theXcw Year*«Or. J, b. Johnson, president of the institution, who is a member ex-offieio of the board of trustees, is going over the numerous applications whieh already have commenced to came 1*1 by mail, t€*legrapb, and long distance telephone. These are being looked over carefully, and when the Executive committee of the board of trustees takes up the work of selecting a new business manager, the task will be much sinir-pler.Ur, Johnson said today that- lt;•110 particular candidate lias been given consideration yet, and stated that he could not venture a guess as to when theexecutive committee w o u 1 d meet.Drew, Miss., Dec. 15.—This little village, nestling ie swamps of the Mississippi delta awoke from‘its slmbers today and counted iis dead—the humanI toll exacted yesterday in the spectacular gun battlebetween Joe Pullen, negro tenant farmer, and af posse of several hundredCOOLIDGE ORDERSRELEASE ALL WAR PRISONERS AT ONCETAKES LIFE IN HAND TO FILL ENGAGEMENT(Hu sr'-ca tcif r-.cs'M) Washington, Dee. 15.—President Coolidge today ordered the release of all remaining imprisoned violators of war laws.About thirty persons will their liberty as a result of the order. They were convicted in various cases at Chicago, Kansas City and Sacramento.The action was taken upon recommendation of the special committee appointed to investigate tlit* question of amnesty and upon the advice of the department of justice.Immediately upon receipt ofthe president's order the* justice department began preparation of the necessary warrants. The prisoners will he released as soon as the warrants reach the federal prisons in which they are incarcerated.negro tenanthis employer, his nossemaii.[). K. Stuart a K. O. at. Walking j Tight Hope, High in Air, in Drizzling ilain.COUNTY HEALTH WORK PRAISEDBefore a crowd of a couple of housand people, and in a drizzling •ain which made the work all the nore hazardous, O. K. Stuarc, dare jlevil tight rope walker, made his j “irst appearance in Hattiesburg to- j f ^t^cinna-Micciccinnlay; - The’ rain had made the wire ijOUISiaila iVIIbbibbipp.s slick as glass,, and it was not relieved that Stuart would dare enture out on it. But for the fact hat the O. A. Pressey organization,rhieh he is representing, as the ad-*’ar.ee at traction: . of the Skriners*1 ire us to be heir! here next week,ind announced positively, his ap-• ea ranee. Stuart would not have;iv 1 n his act.The wire is strung from the old Miizens Bank building, across Main tnet, to the Carter building. Sturt walked half way across theOffiers Compliment Dr Beacham on Good Showing.»ng rope,, and then walked back- j arc! half way to the starting Ant, where he-rested long enough remove the numerous costumes hich he wore. Twenty-two pieces ' wearing apparel were dropped to 1 e street, leaving underneath the •eustomed red silk tights.This feat accomplished, Stuart retimed to the bank building. TheDr. W. D. Beach am, head ot the Fonvst county Health Unit returned last night from New Orleanswhere he has be** 11 in attendance at a meeting of all tin* health otfirersj in tin* states of Louisiana and Mississippi.Iu*. Beacham prounoes the meeting just held as one of the most interesting he. has ever attended. It was called for the purpose of discussing plans for carrying on the work during 1024. -According to, plans adopted in New Orleans it is the plan of all the health officers in the parishesof Louisiana and tin* counties ofmen.Pour men, including the negro,.lost their lives in the battle, which.raged until X o’clock this morning, when Pullen, Riddled with bullets, was captured and brought here. Nine others were wounded, three of them perhaps fatally.T h e d e a d:Joe Pullen, 40,fa nner.\V. T. Sanders, 4 5,R. L. Methvin. 55,E. O. Hess, 50, posseman.Ail of the wounded men were members of the posse which battled^ with the negro for more thanseven hours. The more seriouslywounded are J. L. (Bud) Poggett, prominent lumberman and sportsman of Clarksdale, Miss.; A. L. Manning and Kenneth Blackwood, botb farmers.Three WouimIn Dangerous. Poggett was shot in the regionof the heart but physicians said he has a chance to recover. Manning and Blackwood both were shot in the face and neck. Neither is expected to live through the day.others wounded were:Luther Hughes; C. A. Hammond, Boh St ri n gf el lo w ; J. I. Ratliff; B. A. Williams and Robert Kirsch.Pullen was captured at 1 o’clock this morning, when four members of the posse braved the negro’s fire and stormed the drainage ditch [ in which he had been entrenched I for several hours. Headed by Sher-j iff Cartlege, of Clarksdale, the pur-I ty set up a machine gun which had| been brought from JClarksdale and ; opened Fire on the. ^negro’s strong ! hold. Fighting desperately to the end. Pullen returned the fire with pistol and shotgun until he fell with 20 bullets in his body. He was brought here, where his body lay in the main street until he died at 2 o’clock.During the night, Sheriff Cox of Sunflower county having given permission, 5i0 gallons of gasol ne was brought to the witch in which the negro, armed with shotgun and pistol, was concealed, three miles from the scent* of the killing, the posse-inen intending’ to pour the gasoline into the ditch so that it would flow across the place of the negro’s concealment, and then set fire to it, forcing the negro to abandon hisirforqianee will be repeated Nlon- ^ AIiHSis=s;ippi to put on what Dr.i' Nr w x n . o A ^ 1 .--v 1 1 ** _ i . 1.iy affetyioon at 2:30 o'clock.Eleven Men Are FacingIndictment for WreckingBeacham termed an extensive in - j (]t. p*. t e 11 si\T campaign against malaria in the rural districts, and to make it as a thing of the pass. The meet in us found out that there wasi crude fortress, hut the .negro came out before this could be accomplished.The trouble started shortly after noon yesterday when Sanders, on whose place Pullen lived, went to the latter’s house to collect aAn argument ensued, and theno cause of alarm over the malaria a m m* fxi , | situation, but that now was no tim«Ark, newspaper riant; to quit figMing the malady.In comparison with the reports!(/*»/• Associated Press)Stuttgart, Ark., Dec. 15.—Eleven jn faced indictment in c ircuit •urt here today in connection withe attack here last week on thefives of the Free Press, 1 oct/i*ekly newspaper and the beating jR. A. Berry, the editor, and T.Lawson, his assistants Each, ofe defendants is charged with four. . .... . . - 1 sta t es t ha t henses—rioting, milicious mischief, \ __ _;revated assault and battery.i made at the meeting the work of th“ Forrest Bounty Health Knit com pa red second to non** in the twostates. The two high ranking coun- } ties in Mississippi in health work were Harrison and Forrest.Dr. Beacham gives as a cause of tlx* splendid work done in thiscounty as the splendid co-operationhe has receiverdidThe indictments were reported jthon every hand. He e has rereived splon-co-opt-rat ion from all officers of county, especially the board ofnnd with the citizen rvnegro shot Sanders through the heart, killing him instantly. After shooting his employer, Pulien ran into his cabin, armed himself with a shotgun and fled into the swamp.A posse was quickly formed and a systematic search for the negro was begun. Pullen was sighted several times during the afternoon hut each time he proved the better marksman. One by one he droppedpursuers from ambush. By the timeh»* had reached -the drainage ditch,I the negro’s deadly aim with shot-.gun and pistol had brought downtwelve members of the posse whichbv this time was increased to sev-••era! hundred men. His twelfth victim was Bob Poggett. who was shot while assisting Sheriff Part lege in placing the machine gun.
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Hattiesburg American
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Sat, Dec 15, 1923
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