Alabama Town Sheathes Guns to Bury 6 Riot Dead

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Alton Evening Telegraph
Place of publication: Alton, Illinois
Date of publication: 7/7/1930 0:00
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Alabama Town Sheathes Guns To Bury 6 Riot Dead Race Disorders Follow Dispute Over Battery EMELLE, Ala., July 7, (AP)-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 dis- orders arising from an Independ- ence 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 manhunt, instituted after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the payment for an automobile battery. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the com- mends of white searchers 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. The unidentified negro killed yesterday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to search. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his auto- mobile at the command of posse- men, On Independence Day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence, and to his aid and was fatally shot by one of the negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Robertson, who had participated in the attack, fired the home of John Robertson, a relative and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman. and wounded Jim Alers. another white man. Alabama Town Sheathes Guns To Bury 6 Riot Dead Race Disorders Follow Dispute Over Battery EMELLE, Ala., July 7, (AP)-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 dis- orders arising from an Independ- ence 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 manhunt, instituted after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the payment for an automobile battery. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the com- mends of white searchers 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. The unidentified negro killed yesterday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to search. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his auto- mobile at the command of posse- men, On Independence Day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence, and to his aid and was fatally shot by one of the negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Robertson, who had participated in the attack, fired the home of John Robertson, a relative and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman. and wounded Jim Alers. another white man.