Alabama Town Buries It’s Dead

ALABAMA TOWN BURIES ITS DEAD Two White Men And Four Negroes Kill- ed In Prolong- ed Strife EMELLE. Ala., July 1.-(A)- Rifles and pistols were sheathed to- day and this strife-torn village completed the burial of its dead- two white men and four Negroes- alain in disorders arising from an Independence day debt dispute. Four other Negroes. each with a price of $300 on his head. still were at large. but virtually all of several hundred white possemen had given up a three day man hunt. instituted after a Negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four Negro fugitives, Governor 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.” “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone impli- cated is going to be prosecuted.” he asserted. An unidentified Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a Ne- gro was lynched and another fatal- ly shot. Both of the Negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson. who, with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified Negro shot to death yesterday, officers said, re- plied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush. a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot at Narkeeta. Miss., ten miles west of here. The Negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automo- bile at the command of possemen. ALABAMA TOWN BURIES ITS DEAD Two White Men And Four Negroes Kill- ed In Prolong- ed Strife EMELLE. Ala., July 1.-(A)- Rifles and pistols were sheathed to- day and this strife-torn village completed the burial of its dead- two white men and four Negroes- alain in disorders arising from an Independence day debt dispute. Four other Negroes. each with a price of $300 on his head. still were at large. but virtually all of several hundred white possemen had given up a three day man hunt. instituted after a Negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four Negro fugitives, Governor 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.” “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone impli- cated is going to be prosecuted.” he asserted. An unidentified Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a Ne- gro was lynched and another fatal- ly shot. Both of the Negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson. who, with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified Negro shot to death yesterday, officers said, re- plied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush. a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot at Narkeeta. Miss., ten miles west of here. The Negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automo- bile at the command of possemen.