Emelle Quiet Today; Money For Inciters

EMELLE QUIET TODAY;MONEY FOR INCITERS Alabama Town Buries Its Dead After The Fearful Outbreak TOTAL OF SIX DEAD STANDING Governor Graves Is Anxious To Catch The Instigators EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(A)) Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife-torn village completed the burial of its dead, two white men and four negroes- disorders arising from an slain Independence in debt each dispute. with Day Four other negroes, a price of $300 on his head, still were hundred white possement had given at large, but virtually all of several a three-day man hunt instituted after up a negro family engaged in a fight with a white family over gun the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Montgomery “are not merely but for negroes who kill white men.” would be paid, “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black. responsible at Emelle.” “I am going to the bottom of this business and anyone implicated is going to be prosecuted,” he assert- ed. An unindentified negro man and Viola Dial. a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charles Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a ne- gro was lynched and another fatal- ly shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson who, with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro who was shot to death yesterday, officers said. replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man. upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot at Narkeeta, Miss., ten miles west of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen. On Independence Day, Tom Rob- ertson and his son 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, ran to his aid and was fatal- ly shot by one of the negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Esau 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 Ayers, another white man. EMELLE QUIET TODAY;MONEY FOR INCITERS Alabama Town Buries Its Dead After The Fearful Outbreak TOTAL OF SIX DEAD STANDING Governor Graves Is Anxious To Catch The Instigators EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(A)) Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife-torn village completed the burial of its dead, two white men and four negroes- disorders arising from an slain Independence in debt each dispute. with Day Four other negroes, a price of $300 on his head, still were hundred white possement had given at large, but virtually all of several a three-day man hunt instituted after up a negro family engaged in a fight with a white family over gun the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Montgomery “are not merely but for negroes who kill white men.” would be paid, “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black. responsible at Emelle.” “I am going to the bottom of this business and anyone implicated is going to be prosecuted,” he assert- ed. An unindentified negro man and Viola Dial. a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charles Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a ne- gro was lynched and another fatal- ly shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson who, with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro who was shot to death yesterday, officers said. replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man. upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot at Narkeeta, Miss., ten miles west of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen. On Independence Day, Tom Rob- ertson and his son 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, ran to his aid and was fatal- ly shot by one of the negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Esau 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 Ayers, another white man.