largely responsible for the riot, and which was forced to suspend publication when the business men of the city withdrew their support.  Just how much foundation there was to the rumors may be seen from the following report of the investigator:  “Three, charged to white men, attracted comparatively little attention in the newspapers, although one, the offense of a man named Turnadge, was shocking in its details.  Of twelve such charges against Negroes in the six months preceding the riot, two were cases of rape, horrible in their details, three were aggravated attempts at rape, three may have been attempts, three were pure cases of fright on the part of white women, and in one the white woman, first asserting that a Negro had assaulted her, finally confessed attempted suicide."[1] On Friday, September 21, while a Negro was on trial, the father of the girl concerned asked the recorder for permission to deal with the Negro with his own hand, and an outbreak was barely averted in the open court.  On Saturday evening, however, some elements in the city and from neighboring towns, heated by liquor and newspaper extras, became openly riotous and until midnight defied all law and authority.  Negroes were assaulted wherever they appeared, for the most part being found unsuspecting, as in the case of those who happened to be going home from work and were on street cars passing through the heart of the city.  In one barber shop two workers were beaten to death and their bodies mangled.  A lame bootblack, innocent and industrious, was dragged from his work and kicked and beaten to death.  Another young Negro was stabbed with jack-knives.  Altogether very nearly a score of persons lost their lives and two or three times as many were injured.  After some time Governor Terrell mobilized the militia, but the crowd did not take this move seriously, and the real feeling of the Mayor, who turned on the hose of the fire department, was shown by his statement that just so long as the Negroes committed certain crimes just so long would they be unceremoniously dealt with.  Sunday dawned upon a city of astounded white people and outraged and sullen Negroes.  Throughout Monday and Tuesday the tension continued, the Negroes endeavoring to defend themselves as well as they could.  On Monday night the union of some citizens with policemen who were advancing in a suburb in which most of the homes were those of Negroes, resulted in the death of James Heard, an officer, and in the wounding of some of those who accompanied him.  More Negroes were also killed, and a white woman to whose front porch two men were chased died of fright at seeing them shot to death.  It was the disposition, however, on the part of the Negroes to make armed resistance that really put an end to the massacre.  Now followed a procedure that is best described in the words of the prominent apologist for such outbreaks.  Said A.J.  McKelway:  “Tuesday every house in the town (i.e., the suburb referred to above) was