Guns quiet as Alabama town buries six dead

GUNS QUIET AS I ALABAMA TOWN BURIES SIX DEAD Fo ni of vi Independence Day Debt Dispute Claims Lives of Ge Whites and Negroes la m (By The Associated Press) 1i) EMELLE, Ala., July 7.— Rifles ha and pistols were sheathed today as this trife-torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in dis- orders arising from an Independ- ence Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a te price of $300 on his head, still were C at large, but virtually all of several in hundred white possement had given 11 up a three-day manhunt, instituted M after a negro family engaged in a gunfight with a white family over the payment for an automobile W battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- in gomery, “are not merely for negroes di who killed white men” but would be k paid “for the arrest and conviction M of anybody, white or black, respon- O sible at Emelle.” B An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were S the last two killed. They were shot a 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 yes- terday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon-being ordered to submit to a search. 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 sons 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 Clarence 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 Robertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, another white man. GUNS QUIET AS I ALABAMA TOWN BURIES SIX DEAD Fo ni of vi Independence Day Debt Dispute Claims Lives of Ge Whites and Negroes la m (By The Associated Press) 1i) EMELLE, Ala., July 7.— Rifles ha and pistols were sheathed today as this trife-torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in dis- orders arising from an Independ- ence Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a te price of $300 on his head, still were C at large, but virtually all of several in hundred white possement had given 11 up a three-day manhunt, instituted M after a negro family engaged in a gunfight with a white family over the payment for an automobile W battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- in gomery, “are not merely for negroes di who killed white men” but would be k paid “for the arrest and conviction M of anybody, white or black, respon- O sible at Emelle.” B An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were S the last two killed. They were shot a 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 yes- terday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon-being ordered to submit to a search. 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 sons 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 Clarence 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 Robertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, another white man.