Four Negroes and Two White Men Killed

FOUR NEGROES AND TWO WHITE MEN KILLED The facts as we gathered them: A negro at Emelle killed a white man on July 4th. Trouble started from argument over the battery of a car. The negro owed Mr. Clarence Boyd for the battery. The negro with his father and two brothers again came upon the scene armed with guns, They called Mr. Clarence Boyd out in front of the store and one of the ne- groes hit him on the head with a bottle. Mr. Grover C. Boyd comes to his res- cue. Another negro shot Grover Boyd four times killing him. A posse of 200 white men gathered to capture the negroes. The other white man who was killed, Mr. Marrs, was shot by another negro while the posse was trying to search a house where it was thought the fleeing negroes were. At the same time Mr. Jim Ayers, of Sumterville, was wound ed in the arm with bird shot. The negro who shot Mr. Marrs and Mr. Ayers was shot and killed by some of the searching party and then the house which was being searched was set fire to. The negro who struck Mr. Clarence Boyd with the bottle was found hanging to the limb of a tree by the posse. Sheriff Scales and Marshall Ormond made commendable efforts to correct the published reports of a “race riot,” the trouble being confined to one fam- ily of negroes named Robinson. Four of the Robinson negroes implicated are still at large. Jacob Robinson, one of the Robin. son family that caused so much trouble at Emelle on July 4th, was brought to the Sheriff’s Office Monday. It was thought that he escaped from the house that was burned on the night of the 4th. Law enforcement officers carried eim to Kilby Prison. FOUR NEGROES AND TWO WHITE MEN KILLED The facts as we gathered them: A negro at Emelle killed a white man on July 4th. Trouble started from argument over the battery of a car. The negro owed Mr. Clarence Boyd for the battery. The negro with his father and two brothers again came upon the scene armed with guns, They called Mr. Clarence Boyd out in front of the store and one of the ne- groes hit him on the head with a bottle. Mr. Grover C. Boyd comes to his res- cue. Another negro shot Grover Boyd four times killing him. A posse of 200 white men gathered to capture the negroes. The other white man who was killed, Mr. Marrs, was shot by another negro while the posse was trying to search a house where it was thought the fleeing negroes were. At the same time Mr. Jim Ayers, of Sumterville, was wound ed in the arm with bird shot. The negro who shot Mr. Marrs and Mr. Ayers was shot and killed by some of the searching party and then the house which was being searched was set fire to. The negro who struck Mr. Clarence Boyd with the bottle was found hanging to the limb of a tree by the posse. Sheriff Scales and Marshall Ormond made commendable efforts to correct the published reports of a “race riot,” the trouble being confined to one fam- ily of negroes named Robinson. Four of the Robinson negroes implicated are still at large. Jacob Robinson, one of the Robin. son family that caused so much trouble at Emelle on July 4th, was brought to the Sheriff’s Office Monday. It was thought that he escaped from the house that was burned on the night of the 4th. Law enforcement officers carried eim to Kilby Prison.