Alabama town Buries Its Dead

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Source Type: Other
Publisher: The Daily Ardmoreite
Place of publication: Ardmore, Oklahoma
Date of publication: 7/7/1930 0:00
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ALABAMA TOWN BURIES ITS DEAD Two Whites and Four Negroes Slain and Four Negroes Remain at Large. EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(P)-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four Negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Independence day debt dispute. Four other Negroes, each with a prize of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had given up a three day man- hunt, instituted after a Negro family engaged in a gunfight with a white fam- ily over the payment for an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four Negro fugtives, Gov- ernor Bibb Graves said at Montgomery, “are not merely for Negroes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” An unidentified Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yester- day when the commands of white search- ers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a Negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the Negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. Negro Resisted Posse The unidentified Negro killed yester- day, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search. The Negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of posse- men. ALABAMA TOWN BURIES ITS DEAD Two Whites and Four Negroes Slain and Four Negroes Remain at Large. EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(P)-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four Negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Independence day debt dispute. Four other Negroes, each with a prize of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had given up a three day man- hunt, instituted after a Negro family engaged in a gunfight with a white fam- ily over the payment for an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four Negro fugtives, Gov- ernor Bibb Graves said at Montgomery, “are not merely for Negroes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” An unidentified Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yester- day when the commands of white search- ers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a Negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the Negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. Negro Resisted Posse The unidentified Negro killed yester- day, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search. The Negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of posse- men.