Mob Gives Up Hunt for Negro Killers

MOB GIVES UP HUNT FOR NEGRO KILLERS Sheriff Feared Death On FACTORY BLAST Sight For Fugitives TWO SQUADS ORDERED RESULTS IN TOLL TO SCENE BY GRAVES Negroes Not Implicated In OF THREE LIVES Murder Are Unmolested EMELLE, ALA., July 5.-(A) -Convinced that their quarry had escaped, armed possemen Fire Works Explosion Spreads late today. abandoned their Havoc In Jersey search ,for four negroes in con- nection with the slaying of two white men late yesterday which NEPTUNE, N. J., July 5-(AP) resulted in the death of two Three persons were killed, two of negroes, one of them being them children; another child is miss- lynched ing, and three adults were seriously Possemen seeking the slayers injured in the explosion of a fire of Grover Boyd and Charlie works factory on the outskirts of the Marrs, white men, said this aft- city late today. ernoon it was apparent the Three blasts, following each other three negroes had eluded them in quick succession, razed the fac- and escaped into Mississippi. tory, owned and managed by Frank Quiet was restored here tonight. Cimino and his story and a half The negroes slain were John home which stood on the lot. Robertson, shot down resisting a The dead: posse seeking to search his home, Cimino, Consiglio, 70, father of and Jacob Robertson, his nephew, who was lynched by a mob last (Continued on Page Twelve) night. The negroes sought Tom Robert- son and his sons, brothers of the BALLOON FIRED lynching victim. Esau, Ollie and John were sought throughout last night by between 200 and 300 armed men after they had beaten up Clar- ence Boyd, nephew of Grover who ON SEVEN TIMES was slain as he sought to aid him. “Parties Unknown” A coroner’s jury late today return- ed a verdict that the two negroes BY MISCREANTS came to their death at the ‘hand of party or parties inknown.” Officials had made no indication that an investigation would be con- ducted All Sixteen Bags Accounted Jim Ayres, white, was suffering from a cheek wound received in a For With Half Dozen Down battle with the negroes last night and Clarence Boyd, nephew of LITTLE ROCK, ARK., July 5.- Grover, was injured severely about (AP)-All of the 15 palloons which the head with a bottle in the hands left Houston, Texas yesterday in the of one of the negroes. national elimination balloon race Shot From Behind tonight had been accounted for. Six Grover Boyd was shot down from were definitely down and the other behind by one of the negroes and nine had been reported at various Charlie Marrs was killed while places in Arkansas and Oklahoma possement and enraged citizens still in the air late tonight. stormed John Robertson’s house last Four of the balloons were down night where the negroes had taken near Texarkana, Ark., a fifth at refuge. John Robertson was killed Danville, 95 miles west of Little as he fled the house and Esau Rob- Rock and the sixth at Egger in Polk ertson was hanged to a tree by the county, 150 miles west of Little enraged band. Rock. From Mount Ida. 100 miles west (Continued on Page Twelve) MOB GIVES UP HUNT FOR NEGRO KILLERS Sheriff Feared Death On FACTORY BLAST Sight For Fugitives TWO SQUADS ORDERED RESULTS IN TOLL TO SCENE BY GRAVES Negroes Not Implicated In OF THREE LIVES Murder Are Unmolested EMELLE, ALA., July 5.-(A) -Convinced that their quarry had escaped, armed possemen Fire Works Explosion Spreads late today. abandoned their Havoc In Jersey search ,for four negroes in con- nection with the slaying of two white men late yesterday which NEPTUNE, N. J., July 5-(AP) resulted in the death of two Three persons were killed, two of negroes, one of them being them children; another child is miss- lynched ing, and three adults were seriously Possemen seeking the slayers injured in the explosion of a fire of Grover Boyd and Charlie works factory on the outskirts of the Marrs, white men, said this aft- city late today. ernoon it was apparent the Three blasts, following each other three negroes had eluded them in quick succession, razed the fac- and escaped into Mississippi. tory, owned and managed by Frank Quiet was restored here tonight. Cimino and his story and a half The negroes slain were John home which stood on the lot. Robertson, shot down resisting a The dead: posse seeking to search his home, Cimino, Consiglio, 70, father of and Jacob Robertson, his nephew, who was lynched by a mob last (Continued on Page Twelve) night. The negroes sought Tom Robert- son and his sons, brothers of the BALLOON FIRED lynching victim. Esau, Ollie and John were sought throughout last night by between 200 and 300 armed men after they had beaten up Clar- ence Boyd, nephew of Grover who ON SEVEN TIMES was slain as he sought to aid him. “Parties Unknown” A coroner’s jury late today return- ed a verdict that the two negroes BY MISCREANTS came to their death at the ‘hand of party or parties inknown.” Officials had made no indication that an investigation would be con- ducted All Sixteen Bags Accounted Jim Ayres, white, was suffering from a cheek wound received in a For With Half Dozen Down battle with the negroes last night and Clarence Boyd, nephew of LITTLE ROCK, ARK., July 5.- Grover, was injured severely about (AP)-All of the 15 palloons which the head with a bottle in the hands left Houston, Texas yesterday in the of one of the negroes. national elimination balloon race Shot From Behind tonight had been accounted for. Six Grover Boyd was shot down from were definitely down and the other behind by one of the negroes and nine had been reported at various Charlie Marrs was killed while places in Arkansas and Oklahoma possement and enraged citizens still in the air late tonight. stormed John Robertson’s house last Four of the balloons were down night where the negroes had taken near Texarkana, Ark., a fifth at refuge. John Robertson was killed Danville, 95 miles west of Little as he fled the house and Esau Rob- Rock and the sixth at Egger in Polk ertson was hanged to a tree by the county, 150 miles west of Little enraged band. Rock. From Mount Ida. 100 miles west (Continued on Page Twelve)