Order returned in strife-torn village of Emelle

ORDER RESTORED IN STRIFE-TORN VILLAGE OF EMELLE Posse Gies Up Hunt for Four Negroes With Rewards of $300 Each On Heads EMILLE, Ala., July 7 – (AP)- 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 Indepenednce Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of sev- eral hundred white possement had given up a three day manhunt, in- stitute after a negro. family engag- ed in a gun fight with a white family over the sale of an automo- bile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four Negro fugi- tives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Montgomery, “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 bot- tom of this business and anyone implicated is going to be prosecut- ed,” he asserted An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Gro- ver Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men were killed, and in turn a negro was lynched 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, re- plied 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 automo- bile at the command of the posse- men. On Independence Day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had re- claimed an automobile battery which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence’s, ran to his aid and was fa- tally shot by one of the negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Ja- cob Robertson, who had participa- ted 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 OF EMELLE Posse Gies Up Hunt for Four Negroes With Rewards of $300 Each On Heads EMILLE, Ala., July 7 – (AP)- 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 Indepenednce Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of sev- eral hundred white possement had given up a three day manhunt, in- stitute after a negro. family engag- ed in a gun fight with a white family over the sale of an automo- bile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four Negro fugi- tives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Montgomery, “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 bot- tom of this business and anyone implicated is going to be prosecut- ed,” he asserted An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Gro- ver Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men were killed, and in turn a negro was lynched 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, re- plied 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 automo- bile at the command of the posse- men. On Independence Day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had re- claimed an automobile battery which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence’s, ran to his aid and was fa- tally shot by one of the negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Ja- cob Robertson, who had participa- ted 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.