The Navassa Island Riot/The Riot
THE RIOT.
The eighteen colored laborers indicted by the United States Grand Jury, under Section 5323 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for rioting on the Island of Navassa on the 14th of September, 1889, are George S. Key, Henry Jones alias "Texas Shorty," Cæsar Fisher, Edward Smith alias "Devil," Stephen Peters, Charles H. Smith, Charles H. Davis, James H. Robinson alias "Snow," Alfred Jones, James Philips, Edmund Francis alias "Blue Ball," Edward Woodfork, James Johnson, Alfred Brown, Norman Wooster alias "Juggler," Moses Williams alias "Dakota," Amos Lee and James Tascar.
The indictment is in five counts. The first count charges George S. Key with the murder of James Mahon with a pistol, and the other seventeen as accessories before the act; the second count charges Cæsar Fisher and Henry Jones with the murder of Thomas N. Foster with an axe and stone, and the other sixteen as accessories before the act. The third count charges Henry Jones with the murder of Joseph Fales with an axe, and the other seventeen as accessories before the act. The fourth indictment charges Edward Smith with the murder of Samuel Marah with a stone, and the other seventeen as accessories before the act; and the fifth count charges Stephen Peters, Charles H. Smith alias John Ward and Charles H. Davis with the murder, by means unknown, of Wm. T. Shea, with the other fifteen as accessories before the act.