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“Negros's Fight.” - - Last Saturday night Bill Lucas and Lee Howard, two Africans living on the farm of Ben Miller near Camden Point, got into an altercation. Howard says that he and Lucas lived in a shanty on Mr. Miller's farm. Saturday night Lucas came home, kicked in the door, and proceeded to “do him up.” Howard then pulled his mighty gun and, firing, shot Lucas through the hand. Lucas came to town and informed the officers of the shooting. Deputy Sheriff Clemings went after, and returned with, Howard, lodging him in jail. Howard was arraigned before Judge Hatton Monday and was sent up for 10 days. Here is a splendid opportunity for these Senegambians to exercise their muscles on the turnpike between Platte City and Tracy, Lucas and Howard are both worthless and ornery negroes and should be given time. The whitecaps (white cappers) made Lucas leave Platte City and this is the first time he has appeared in town since he left. Platte City can spare both these niggers, and a few more.
(Researcher's note: "Beginning in the 1870s, multiple secret vigilante groups were formed across the United States to violently resist the changing social and moral standards of the country. These groups, collectively known as White Caps, originated in Southern Indiana, and later spread across the United States in the last part of the nineteenth century, committing brutal acts of terrorism against anyone whom the group deemed a threat to the moral and social standards of their specific community." https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/items/447ea248-5d87-4641-b917-c44a8987b95f)Date(s) of Creation
9/27/1901
