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Source Type: | Newspaper |
Publisher: | The Dothan Eagle |
Place of publication: | Dothan, Alabama |
Date of publication: | 7/10/1930 0:00 |
Source URL: | View Source |
Transcript: | BLACKS SOUGHT BY IRATE CROWD SAFE IN KILBY (Continued From Page One) John Newton Robertson was slain and his home burned when members of Sheriff W. D. Scales force said he resisted efforts to search his home for his brother Tom, and his three sons, sought in connection with the slaying of Boyd and an attack on his neph- ew, Clarence Boyd. Marrs, Potter Smith, of the state law enforcement force, said was shot in the back of the head. The other two negroes who died during the disorders were slain Sat- urday night by posses roaming the section adjacent to the Mississippi line in search of Tom Robertson and his sons. One, an unidentified negro man, was slain after he had fired on a member of the posse that found him in a railway station at Nar- chetta, Miss., and sought to search him. The other was a negro wo- man, the wife of James Eyer, who was killed when the posse fired after her husband had failed to obey a command to halt. Walter K. McAdor. chief law en- forcement officer, who took charge of the investigation yesterday, was expected to make a complete report to Governor Bibb Graves today, aft- er which the governor has said he would make a statement and take such action against those involved as the facts and evidence war- rants. BLACKS SOUGHT BY IRATE CROWD SAFE IN KILBY (Continued From Page One) John Newton Robertson was slain and his home burned when members of Sheriff W. D. Scales force said he resisted efforts to search his home for his brother Tom, and his three sons, sought in connection with the slaying of Boyd and an attack on his neph- ew, Clarence Boyd. Marrs, Potter Smith, of the state law enforcement force, said was shot in the back of the head. The other two negroes who died during the disorders were slain Sat- urday night by posses roaming the section adjacent to the Mississippi line in search of Tom Robertson and his sons. One, an unidentified negro man, was slain after he had fired on a member of the posse that found him in a railway station at Nar- chetta, Miss., and sought to search him. The other was a negro wo- man, the wife of James Eyer, who was killed when the posse fired after her husband had failed to obey a command to halt. Walter K. McAdor. chief law en- forcement officer, who took charge of the investigation yesterday, was expected to make a complete report to Governor Bibb Graves today, aft- er which the governor has said he would make a statement and take such action against those involved as the facts and evidence war- rants. |