McDowell, Hopkinsville Kentuckian, March 17, 1908
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Webster County On Verge of Race War Over Shooting of Town Marshal of Providence.
Dixon, Ky., March 15, – After Jake McDowell, a negro, who shot and it is thought fatally wounded Smith Childers, deputy city Marshal of Providence, this county, had been placed in jail here by Marshal H. L. Sutton, of Providence, a number of negroes, supposed to be from the vicinity of Providence, ambushed themselves about two miles from this place with the supposed intention of intercepting a mob that it was rumored was forming to take McDowell from jail.
About 12 o’clock a party of traveling men, on their way to Dixon, were without warning fired upon by the ambushed negroes, and two of them were wounded.
P. B. Carter, of Chattanooga, Tenn., is thought to be fatally wounded and was taken to a hospital at Evansville.J. B. Barry, of Louisville, was painfully, if not seriously, wounded. He left here this morning, hoping to be able to reach his home in Louisville.
FIND PRISONER GONE.
About 2 o’clock the expected mob reached Dixon, but McDowell had been hurried away to the Henderson jail. Upon learning that their man was away and of the shooting of the other men by the ambushed negroes the mob hastily left.
Tom Fuqua, Tom Miller, Will McDowell, and an unknown negro have been arrested for complicity in the wounding of the traveling men and for being members of the black ambushers. Jake McDowell is at the Henderson jail, being protected by the entire police force from possible lynching. Childers is dying here, and his sweetheart, Miss Fannie Gallion, of Hopkins county, is hovering over him, trying to soothe his last hours.
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