LITTLE ALABAMA TOWN HAS SHEATHED WEAPONS AS DEAD IN RACE WAR ARE BURIED

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Corsicana Daily Sun
Place of publication: Corsicana, Texas
Date of publication: 7/7/1930 0:00
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LITTLE ALABAMA TOWN HAS SHEATHED WEAPONS AS DEAD IN RACE WAR ARE BURIED EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(/P)- Boyd and Charile Marrs, both Rifles and pistols were sheathed white men, were killed and in turn today as this strife torn village a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes completed the burial of its dead- were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, two white men and four negroes- who with three sons, fled and has slain in disorder arising from an not been apprehended. independence day debt dispute. The unidentified negro killed yes- Four other negroes, each with a terday, officers said, replied with price of $300 on his head, were bullets and wounded Clarence sti!I at large, but virtually all of Bush, a white man, upon being several hundred white possemen ordered to submit to a search. had given up a three day man- The negro woman was slain when hunt, instituted after a negro fam- her husband failed to halt his au- ily engaged in a gun fight with a tomobile at the command of posse- white family over payment for an men. automobile battery. On Independence day Tom Rob- Official rewards which have ertson and his sons attached Clar- been posted for the four negro once Boyd after he had reclaimeric fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves an automobile battery for which said at Montgomery, “are not the negroes had failed to pay him. merely for negroes who killed Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- white men” but would be paid once, ran to his aid and was fatal- “for the arrest and conviction of ly shot by one of the negroes. anybody, white or black, respons- A crowd gathered, lynching ible at Emelle.” Jacob Robertson, who partici- An unidentified negro man and pated in the attack, fired the home Viola Dial, a negro woman, were of John Roberson, a relative and he last two killed. They were shot him to death when he killed not to death vesterday when the Chavlie Marrs, a white posseman, commands of white searchers were and wounded Jim Ayres, another not obeyed. Previously Grover white man. LITTLE ALABAMA TOWN HAS SHEATHED WEAPONS AS DEAD IN RACE WAR ARE BURIED EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(/P)- Boyd and Charile Marrs, both Rifles and pistols were sheathed white men, were killed and in turn today as this strife torn village a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes completed the burial of its dead- were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, two white men and four negroes- who with three sons, fled and has slain in disorder arising from an not been apprehended. independence day debt dispute. The unidentified negro killed yes- Four other negroes, each with a terday, officers said, replied with price of $300 on his head, were bullets and wounded Clarence sti!I at large, but virtually all of Bush, a white man, upon being several hundred white possemen ordered to submit to a search. had given up a three day man- The negro woman was slain when hunt, instituted after a negro fam- her husband failed to halt his au- ily engaged in a gun fight with a tomobile at the command of posse- white family over payment for an men. automobile battery. On Independence day Tom Rob- Official rewards which have ertson and his sons attached Clar- been posted for the four negro once Boyd after he had reclaimeric fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves an automobile battery for which said at Montgomery, “are not the negroes had failed to pay him. merely for negroes who killed Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- white men” but would be paid once, ran to his aid and was fatal- “for the arrest and conviction of ly shot by one of the negroes. anybody, white or black, respons- A crowd gathered, lynching ible at Emelle.” Jacob Robertson, who partici- An unidentified negro man and pated in the attack, fired the home Viola Dial, a negro woman, were of John Roberson, a relative and he last two killed. They were shot him to death when he killed not to death vesterday when the Chavlie Marrs, a white posseman, commands of white searchers were and wounded Jim Ayres, another not obeyed. Previously Grover white man.