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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Denton Record-Chronicle
Place of publication: Denton, Texas
Date of publication: 7/7/1930 0:00
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prize of $300 on his head, were still large, but virtually all of several hundred white possemen had given up a three day man hunt. instituted after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over payment for 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 ne- groes who killed white men,” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody. white or black, responsible at Emelle.” An unidentified negro man, and Viola Dial, a negro woman. were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the com- mands of white searchers were not obeyed. On independence day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Ciar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd. an uncle of Clar- ence, ran to his aid and was Iatally shot by one of the negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Robertson, who 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 Ayres, another white man. Night baseball has proved a suc- cess for the Sacramento club in the Pacific Coast league. Ice Cold Watermelons. Home Ice Co. on West Hickory St. 280 prize of $300 on his head, were still large, but virtually all of several hundred white possemen had given up a three day man hunt. instituted after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over payment for 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 ne- groes who killed white men,” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody. white or black, responsible at Emelle.” An unidentified negro man, and Viola Dial, a negro woman. were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the com- mands of white searchers were not obeyed. On independence day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Ciar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd. an uncle of Clar- ence, ran to his aid and was Iatally shot by one of the negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Robertson, who 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 Ayres, another white man. Night baseball has proved a suc- cess for the Sacramento club in the Pacific Coast league. Ice Cold Watermelons. Home Ice Co. on West Hickory St. 280