Four still at large

FOUR STILL AT LARGE And Six Are Dead the Result of an Independence Day Dispute Emelle, Ala., July 8 (AP)-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today and this strife-torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders arising 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 possement had given up a three-day manhunt, instituted after a negro family and a white family engaged in a gunfight over the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for negroes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, respon- sible at Emelle.” “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone implicated is going to be prosecuted,” he asserted. An unidentified negro man and Vi- ola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday 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 lynch- ed and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with his three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. An unidentified negro 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 de- pot at Narkeeta, Miss., ten miles west I of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possé- men. 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 Rob- ertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers@nother white man. FOUR STILL AT LARGE And Six Are Dead the Result of an Independence Day Dispute Emelle, Ala., July 8 (AP)-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today and this strife-torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders arising 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 possement had given up a three-day manhunt, instituted after a negro family and a white family engaged in a gunfight over the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for negroes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, respon- sible at Emelle.” “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone implicated is going to be prosecuted,” he asserted. An unidentified negro man and Vi- ola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday 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 lynch- ed and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with his three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. An unidentified negro 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 de- pot at Narkeeta, Miss., ten miles west I of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possé- men. 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 Rob- ertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers@nother white man.