Death Toll Now Six in Alabama Disorders

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Omaha World-Herald
Place of publication: Omaha, Nebraska
Date of publication: 7/7/1930 0:00
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Death Toll Now Six in Alabama Disorders Emelle, Ala., July 7 (/P)-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and Tour Negroes-slain in dis- orders arising from an Independ- ence day debt dispute. Four other Negroes, each with a prize of three hundred dollars on his head, still were at large. but virtually all of several hundred white possement 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- mands 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. Death Toll Now Six in Alabama Disorders Emelle, Ala., July 7 (/P)-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and Tour Negroes-slain in dis- orders arising from an Independ- ence day debt dispute. Four other Negroes, each with a prize of three hundred dollars on his head, still were at large. but virtually all of several hundred white possement 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- mands 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.