Order Restored in Strife-Torn Village

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Evergreen Courant
Place of publication: Evergreen, Alabama
Date of publication: 7/10/1930 0:00
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Order Restored In Strife-Torn Village Emelle, Ala., July 7-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today and this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Independence Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had given up a three day manhunt, institute after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Babb Braves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for negroes who killed white men, but would be paid for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible for murder at Emelle.” “I am going to go at the bottom of this business and anyone implicat- ed is going to be prosecuted,” he as- serted. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday 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 lynch- ed and another fatally shot, Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro shot to death yesterday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot at Narketta, Miss., ten miles west of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of the possemen. On Independence Day Tom Robert- son and sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence’s 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. Order Restored In Strife-Torn Village Emelle, Ala., July 7-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today and this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Independence Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had given up a three day manhunt, institute after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Babb Braves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for negroes who killed white men, but would be paid for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible for murder at Emelle.” “I am going to go at the bottom of this business and anyone implicat- ed is going to be prosecuted,” he as- serted. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday 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 lynch- ed and another fatally shot, Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro shot to death yesterday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot at Narketta, Miss., ten miles west of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of the possemen. On Independence Day Tom Robert- son and sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence’s 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.