Sheriff Slips Away With Bell;

Mob Well Handled by Citizens. Lithia Springs, Ga., June 4. The chase for Harve Minifee, the black assaulter of Leomie Smith, has grown in intensity, and the farmers throughout this and Paulding county are taking advantage of the day of rest to shoulder their shotguns and join their neighbors in the swamp. Today it has been reported here that Minifee had been seen by two parties once in the Sweetwater creek swamp and again within the Chautauqua grounds. Both parties who saw the fleeing negro were unacquainted with his crime, but both described him accurately as the stalwart, powerful man whose counterpart in strength cannot be found in this section of the state. The theory that Minifee is still in the swamp near here has been abandoned for the more plausible one that he made his exit from the hiding place last night, and is working eastward in the direction of Campbelton, where he formerly lived, and where he is known to have friends on whose assistance he can count. That he passed through the Chautauqua grounds this morning there is little doubt. A negro who is regarded thoroughly reliable volunteered the information to Mayor Shelverton, of Austell, that he saw Minifee sitting at rest against a tree in the grounds this morning; that the fugitive had by his side a small grip sack; that the man gave every evidence of great fatigue. This information came in the nature of corroboration to a report already abroad, but it was dark before the members of the Austell and Lithia Springs parties, patrolling the swamp could be collected. Little can be hoped to result from continuation of the search tonight, but in the morning a party of fully thirty men will be got together, mounted, and put on the new train leading in the direction of Cambelton –Dallas Offers $200 Reward—The citizens of Paulding county, at a gathering yesterday morning, where nearly every man in Dallas was present, decided to offer a reward of $200 for the arrest of Harve Minifee and his delivery to the sheriff of Paulding county. The gathering on Sunday morning was a unique one in every way, and showed the determination of the citizens of the county to bring the assaulter to justice. The cool heads at the gathering insisted that Minifee should be delivered to the sheriff of the county before the reward was paid. It was the earnest desire of the people of the place that the party under Sheriff Wheeler, which has been out for the greater part of the time since Saturday, would return with Minifee, but up to a late hour tonight the efforts of the posse to find some trace of the assaulter have been futile. The mob of fifty men formed yesterday morning has been abroad the entire day in the direction of Lost Mountain, seeking for a trace of Minifee near the cottages of his wife and relatives. This party of Dallas citizens still holds to the theory that the assaulter has not left Paulding county, and will be found near the haunts with which he is thoroughly familiar. The presence of Sheriff Wheeler in the Dallas mob is taken to mean that if Minifee is captured by them, that he will not be lynched until after his landing in jail. That Minifee will ever see the inside of the Paulding jail is laughed at by those familiar with the man’s character. It is taken for granted that when the mob meets its quarry, there will be a determined fight for liberty on the part of the negro. He is known to be well armed, to have brute courage, which would assert itself at a stand for life or death. The sentiment in Paulding in favor of the stake for Minifee is as strong today as if ever was in Campbell county, as the just punishment for Same hose. The town is as calm and peaceful as on any Sunday in the year, and only the hurried return of some member of the mob from the direction of Lost mountain draws the citizens from their homes.—Victim Dangerously Ill—Leomie Smith, the child of twelve years, and the victim of Minifee’s savage assault, is regarded by her physician in a dangerous condition. The fright which took hold of the young girl has gradually departed upon the constant assurance that the black brute, her assaulter, has departed form the neighborhood. in place of fright, a settled physical depression has fallen over the child. Her mind, it is said, has barely escaped derangement, such was the shock to her system, and her final recovery is talked of with extreme doubt. John Smith, the father of Leomie Smith, refuses to take up the trail with the mob, but insists on watching the fields near his home, with his gun on his shoulder. His neighbors and friends are inclined to shake their heads at the mention of his name, in token of doubt as to his mental condition. Had it not been that John Smith was always regarded in the community as a man of eccentric ways, he would have been severely reprimanded for his delay in telling of Minifee’s crime…