Burying Emelle Race War Victims

BURYING EMELLE RACE WAR VICTIMS Two Whites and Four Negroes Killed in Battle Started by Dispute Over Automobile Battery Debt. EMELLE, Ala., July 7 (A)).-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today and this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and tour negroes-slain in disorders aris- mg 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 manhunt, instituted after a negro family and a white family engaged in a gun fight over the sale of an automo- bile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Gov. 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 implicated is going to we prosecuted,” he asserted. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the com- inands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a negro lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with his three sons, fled and have not been apprehended, An unidentified negro shot to death yesterdav officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to sub- mit to a search at a railroad depot at Narkeeta, Miss., 10 miles west of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the commend of possemen. On Independence Day Tom Robert- son and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had reclaimed an auto- mobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence’s, ran 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 Robert- son, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, an- other white man. BURYING EMELLE RACE WAR VICTIMS Two Whites and Four Negroes Killed in Battle Started by Dispute Over Automobile Battery Debt. EMELLE, Ala., July 7 (A)).-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today and this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and tour negroes-slain in disorders aris- mg 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 manhunt, instituted after a negro family and a white family engaged in a gun fight over the sale of an automo- bile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Gov. 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 implicated is going to we prosecuted,” he asserted. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the com- inands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a negro lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with his three sons, fled and have not been apprehended, An unidentified negro shot to death yesterdav officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to sub- mit to a search at a railroad depot at Narkeeta, Miss., 10 miles west of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the commend of possemen. On Independence Day Tom Robert- son and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had reclaimed an auto- mobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence’s, ran 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 Robert- son, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, an- other white man.