Four Ellude Possemen’s 3-Day Hunt

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Pasadena Post
Place of publication: Pasadena, California
Date of publication: 7/7/1930 0:00
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UOILLLUDL POSSEMEN’S 3-DAY HUNT EMELLE, Ala., July 7. (AP) -Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in dis- orders arising from an Independence day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a prize of $300 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 bat- tery. Searchers Kill Two 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. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been appre- hended. The unidentified negro killed yesterday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to subit to a search. The negro woman was slain when he husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen. UOILLLUDL POSSEMEN’S 3-DAY HUNT EMELLE, Ala., July 7. (AP) -Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in dis- orders arising from an Independence day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a prize of $300 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 bat- tery. Searchers Kill Two 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. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been appre- hended. The unidentified negro killed yesterday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to subit to a search. The negro woman was slain when he husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen.