Mob Gives Up Hunt For Negro Killer

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Source Type: Other
Publisher: The Selma Times-Journal
Place of publication: Selma, Alabama
Date of publication: 7/6/1930 0:00
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terday afternoon when Clarence STATE SCHOOLS Boyd found Esau Robertson at a barbecue and demanded payment for a storage ba+tery he had sold him. OF MISSISSIPPI The negro said he didn’t have the money, so Boyd seized the battery. Later the negro appeared at a store where Boyd was and asked to talk to him. Boyd stepped outside and HAVE SHAKEUPS found in addition the negro’s broth- er, Oliver and his lather. there. The three were said to have jumped on Boyd and began heating him Grover Boyd, uncle of Clarence, More Than Hundred Changes and Carl Scales, hearing Clarence’s Made In Faculties cries, went to his assistance and one of the negroes fired four bullets in- to Grover Boyd’s back Boyd drop- GULFPORT, MISS. July 5.-(AP) ped dead. Scales and others who -In a rastic shakeup of the de- came up seized Esau but the other partmental heads at Mississippi A. two negroes disappeared. and M. College by the board of trus- Fire the House tees of the University and Colleges Esau was held by the crowd. which here today Lee Denson. Lucedale, grew steadily until last night, when was named director of extension he as taken to the woods and forces succeeding R. S. Wilson, for hanged. In the meantime, Sheriff 20 years the occupant of the office. Scales and his deputies arrived and More than 100 changes were made search for the other two negroes was at the agricultural institution while instituted. When the posse called Mississippi State College for Wom- at the home of John Robertson, en. Columbus, saw eleven instructors brother of Tom. he met them with Jet out and about five additional gunfire and in turn was slain. Later members dropped from University it was discovered that Marrs had of Mississippi been shot and Ayres wounded. En- Other important changes at A. and raged the mob fired the house. M. College included the appoint- While the flames roared in John ment of J. C. Ro’ ert. Macon, as di- Robertson’s home, posses formed rector of experimental stations, re- and began a search of the section placing J. R. Ricks, for ten years for the other two negrões. The mob holder of that office that numbered between 200 and 300 Senator Len G. North, Belzoni, was during last night dwindled today to named secretary at A. and M. Col- between 25 and 50 grimly determin- lege in place of M. H Moore. while ed men who continued the hunt. at M. S. C. W. that position was No negroes not implicated in the tendered H. B. Graves, Ellisville, shooting were mclested by members 1927 manager of Governor Bilbro. of the mob that ranged the section Mr. Graves succeeds F. F. Parsons, Sheriff Scales said, and many offer- Miss Nellie K’ern. acting presi- ed what aid they could. dent of M. S. C. W since the death Sheriff Scales said reports that a of President J. C. Fant. was dis- race riot was in progress was untrue missed from the institution when but he expressed /ear that the two her former position as dean of wom- negroes sought would be killed if en was given to Miss Clythe H. captured. Evans, Columbus A squad of state law enforcement Three new college heads appoint- officers from Montgomery and an- ed three weeks ago by the board ap- other squad from Birmingham was peared before the group with recom- en route here, dispatched by Gov- mendations. They were Chancellor ernor Bibb Graves, and it was be- elect J. N. Powers, University: Presi- lieved their presence might aid in dent-elect Hugh Critz A. and M. and prventing violence toward the ne- President-elect R. E. L. Sutherland groes. of M. S. C. w Wild rumors and reports of the negroes being surrounded and others that they had been captured flew Mob Gives Up Hunt thick and fast throughout the day, one such report causing two car- For Negro Killer loads of men from York to come here to aid in capturing the ne- groes. (Continued from Page One) Tonight the negroes were believed in hiding in dense swamps near the First reports of the trouble were Mississippi line but their capture did greatly exaggerated, the death list not seem imminent. being given as high as eight and wounded numbering many more, but during the forenoon the excitement FACTORY BLAST died down and the search settled in- to a grim, determined man hunt. RESULTS IN TOLL Sheriff D. Scales who took charge of the search last night and OF THREE LIVES tried to control the unruly mob of 200 to 300 excited men today check- ed the affair thoroughly and found (Continued from Page One) only four dead and two wounded. The sheriff, however, expressed the Frank. opinion that two wounded negroes Cimino, Millie, 9, daughter of were in hiding in the woods. Frank. Check of reports that to negroes Renna, Dolores, 2, 321 Nevins had been burned to death also Street, Brooklyn. proved d. A search of the The seriously injured: ruins of John Robertson’s home Cimino, Mrs. Mary, wife of Frank showed no evidence of anyone hav- Renna, Mrs. Nancy, mother of ing burned to death Dolores. The trouble was precipitated yes- Del Fiore, Alfred, an employee Frank Cimino jr., 9, is missing terday afternoon when Clarence STATE SCHOOLS Boyd found Esau Robertson at a barbecue and demanded payment for a storage ba+tery he had sold him. OF MISSISSIPPI The negro said he didn’t have the money, so Boyd seized the battery. Later the negro appeared at a store where Boyd was and asked to talk to him. Boyd stepped outside and HAVE SHAKEUPS found in addition the negro’s broth- er, Oliver and his lather. there. The three were said to have jumped on Boyd and began heating him Grover Boyd, uncle of Clarence, More Than Hundred Changes and Carl Scales, hearing Clarence’s Made In Faculties cries, went to his assistance and one of the negroes fired four bullets in- to Grover Boyd’s back Boyd drop- GULFPORT, MISS. July 5.-(AP) ped dead. Scales and others who -In a rastic shakeup of the de- came up seized Esau but the other partmental heads at Mississippi A. two negroes disappeared. and M. College by the board of trus- Fire the House tees of the University and Colleges Esau was held by the crowd. which here today Lee Denson. Lucedale, grew steadily until last night, when was named director of extension he as taken to the woods and forces succeeding R. S. Wilson, for hanged. In the meantime, Sheriff 20 years the occupant of the office. Scales and his deputies arrived and More than 100 changes were made search for the other two negroes was at the agricultural institution while instituted. When the posse called Mississippi State College for Wom- at the home of John Robertson, en. Columbus, saw eleven instructors brother of Tom. he met them with Jet out and about five additional gunfire and in turn was slain. Later members dropped from University it was discovered that Marrs had of Mississippi been shot and Ayres wounded. En- Other important changes at A. and raged the mob fired the house. M. College included the appoint- While the flames roared in John ment of J. C. Ro’ ert. Macon, as di- Robertson’s home, posses formed rector of experimental stations, re- and began a search of the section placing J. R. Ricks, for ten years for the other two negrões. The mob holder of that office that numbered between 200 and 300 Senator Len G. North, Belzoni, was during last night dwindled today to named secretary at A. and M. Col- between 25 and 50 grimly determin- lege in place of M. H Moore. while ed men who continued the hunt. at M. S. C. W. that position was No negroes not implicated in the tendered H. B. Graves, Ellisville, shooting were mclested by members 1927 manager of Governor Bilbro. of the mob that ranged the section Mr. Graves succeeds F. F. Parsons, Sheriff Scales said, and many offer- Miss Nellie K’ern. acting presi- ed what aid they could. dent of M. S. C. W since the death Sheriff Scales said reports that a of President J. C. Fant. was dis- race riot was in progress was untrue missed from the institution when but he expressed /ear that the two her former position as dean of wom- negroes sought would be killed if en was given to Miss Clythe H. captured. Evans, Columbus A squad of state law enforcement Three new college heads appoint- officers from Montgomery and an- ed three weeks ago by the board ap- other squad from Birmingham was peared before the group with recom- en route here, dispatched by Gov- mendations. They were Chancellor ernor Bibb Graves, and it was be- elect J. N. Powers, University: Presi- lieved their presence might aid in dent-elect Hugh Critz A. and M. and prventing violence toward the ne- President-elect R. E. L. Sutherland groes. of M. S. C. w Wild rumors and reports of the negroes being surrounded and others that they had been captured flew Mob Gives Up Hunt thick and fast throughout the day, one such report causing two car- For Negro Killer loads of men from York to come here to aid in capturing the ne- groes. (Continued from Page One) Tonight the negroes were believed in hiding in dense swamps near the First reports of the trouble were Mississippi line but their capture did greatly exaggerated, the death list not seem imminent. being given as high as eight and wounded numbering many more, but during the forenoon the excitement FACTORY BLAST died down and the search settled in- to a grim, determined man hunt. RESULTS IN TOLL Sheriff D. Scales who took charge of the search last night and OF THREE LIVES tried to control the unruly mob of 200 to 300 excited men today check- ed the affair thoroughly and found (Continued from Page One) only four dead and two wounded. The sheriff, however, expressed the Frank. opinion that two wounded negroes Cimino, Millie, 9, daughter of were in hiding in the woods. Frank. Check of reports that to negroes Renna, Dolores, 2, 321 Nevins had been burned to death also Street, Brooklyn. proved d. A search of the The seriously injured: ruins of John Robertson’s home Cimino, Mrs. Mary, wife of Frank showed no evidence of anyone hav- Renna, Mrs. Nancy, mother of ing burned to death Dolores. The trouble was precipitated yes- Del Fiore, Alfred, an employee Frank Cimino jr., 9, is missing