Mob Rule In New Orleans — Insolent Blacks

Matilda Gamble was arrested by the police for saying that two officers were killed and it was a pity more were not shot.

She was given or thirty days.

+INSOLENT BLACKS+

"Recorder Hughes received Negroes in the first recorder's office yesterday morning in a way that they will remember for a long time, and all of them were before the magistrate for having caused trouble through incendiary remarks concerning the death of Captain Day and Patrolman Lamb."

"Lee Jackson was before the recorder and was fined or thirty days.

He was lippy around where the trouble happened Tuesday morning, and some white men punched him good and hard and the police took him.

Then the recorder gave him a dose, and now he is in the parish prison."

"John Kennedy was another black who got into trouble.

He said that the shooting of the police by Charles was a good thing, and for this he was pounded.

Patrolman Lorenzo got him and saved him from being lynched, for the black had an open razor.

He was fined or thirty days."

"Edward McCarthy, a white man, mixed up with the crowd, and an expression of sympathy nearly cost him his head, for some whites about started for him, administering licks and blows with fists and umbrellas.

The recorder fined him or thirty days.

He is from New York."

"Then James Martin, a white man, and Simon Montegut, Eddie Call, Henry Turner and Alex Washington were before the magistrate for having failed to move on when the police ordered them from the square where the bluecoats were Tuesday, waiting in the hope of catching Charles.

All save Martin and Montegut were fined."

"Eddie Williams, a little Negro who was extremely fresh with the police, was fined or ten days."