Blacks Sought By Irate Crowd Safe In Kilby

BLACKS SOUGHT BY IRATE CROWD SAFE IN KILBY Seven Negroes Sought By Mob In Connection With Riot At Emelle July Fourth Are Captured TWO WHITE MEN AND FOUR NEGROES KILLED IN PIOT – Armed Posse of More Than 200 Whites Sought Negro Participants for 48 Hours MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 10.- (AP)-Seven members of the negro family sought by an irate crowd of white for 48 hours. after the of Grover slaying persons Boyd at Emelle, Ala., July 4, resulting in the death of five other persons, one of them a white man, today were in Kilby prison here. Jacob Robertson, whose twin brother, Esau, lynched Friday was night, was brought here Tuesday and Wednesday nights by state enforcement officers who kept the matter quiet until today. State officers who took the ne- groes into custody said they sur- rendered voluntarily after sulking through Emelle a corn field near since last Friday night without food or water. Officers said the negroes were in a state of exhaus- tion when they finally made their hiding place known. In addition, Jacob, Jordan, J. W., James, Robertson, the prison Elbert, Andrew and Frank are now in here. No charges, as yet, have been preferred against them. TWO ARE CAPTURED IN BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 10.- to have admitted they are sons (AP)-Two negroes said by officers of John Robinson, one of the four negroes elle, Ala., disorders arrested at Em- slain in last week, were at Elyton, a suburb, today, and held for Sumter county authori- ties. The pair gave their names as An- drew Officers Philip they Henry denied Robinson. they and said par- ticipated in the skirmishes that re- sulted in the death of two white men and four stated they county negroes, for but safety. fled the Attaches of the Sumter county sheriff’s office, where it was stated the description of the negroes tal- lied with that of the men wanted there, were expected to arrive here today. The Emelle disorders started July 4 after Clarence Boyd, store- keeper, attempted to collect a debt from one of the Robinsons. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence, was shot to death and in subsequent skirmishes Charlie Marrs, a white man, and four negroes, one a we- man, were killed. In addition to Boyd, another white man, Charlie Marrs who is believed to have died at the hands of the member of the crowd beseiging the home of John New- ton Robetrson, an uncle of Esau. (PLEASE TURN TO PAGE TWELVE) BLACKS SOUGHT BY RATECROWD SAFE IN KILBY Seven Negroes Sought By Mob In Connection With Riot At Emelle July Fourth Are Captured TWO WHITE MEN AND FOUR NEGROES KILLED IN PIOT – Armed Posse of More Than 200 Whites Sought Negro Partici- pants for 48 Hours MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 10.- (AP)-Seven members of the negro family sought by an irate crowd of white for 48 hours. after the of Grover slaying persons Boyd at Emelle, Ala., July 4, resulting in the death of five other persons, one of them a white man, today were in Kilby prison here. Jacob Robertson, whose twin brother, Esau, lynched Friday was night, was brought here Tuesday and en- Wednesday nights by state forcement officers who kept the matter quiet until today. State officers who took the ne- groes into custody said they sur- rendered voluntarily after sulking through Emelle a corn field near since last Friday night without food or water. Officers said the negroes were in a state of exhaus- tion when they finally made their hiding place known. In addition, Jacob, Jordan, J. W., James, Robertson, the prison Elbert, Andrew and Frank are now in here. No charges, as yet, have been preferred against them. TWO ARE CAPTURED IN BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 10.- to have admitted they are sons (AP)-Two negroes said by officers of John Robinson, one of the four negroes elle, Ala., disorders arrested at Em- slain in last week, were at Elyton, a suburb, today, and held for Sumter county authori- ties. The pair gave their names as An- drew Officers Philip they Henry denied Robinson. they and said par- ticipated in the skirmishes that re- sulted in the death of two white men and four stated they county negroes, for but safety. fled the Attaches of the Sumter county sheriff’s office, where it was stated the description of the negroes tal- lied with that of the men wanted there, were expected to arrive here today. The Emelle disorders started July 4 after Clarence Boyd, store- keeper, attempted to collect a debt from one of the Robinsons. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence, was shot to death and in subsequent skirmishes Charlie Marrs, a white man, and four negroes, one a we- man, were killed. In addition to Boyd, another white man, Charlie Marrs who is believed to have died at the hands of the member of the crowd beseiging the home of John New- ton Robetrson, an uncle of Esau. (PLEASE TURN TO PAGE TWELVE)