Peace Reigns After Sumter Race Clashes

Peace Reigns After Sumter Race Clashes -0- wo Whites, Four Negroes Dead As Aftermath Of July 4 Outbreak -0- MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 11. Governor Bibb Graves Monday morning offered rewards of $300 each for the party or patries re- sponsible for the deaths of two white men and four negroes in a series of disorders in and near Emelle, Ala., July 4 and 5. The white men killed were Gro- ver Boyd, garage proprietor at Emelle and Charlie Marrs, a farm- er. The negro dead: John Rob- ertson, Jacob Robertson, an uni- dentified negro slain at Mar- chetta, Miss., and a negro woman named Eyer. Search by posses and state law enforcement officers continued for three other negroes who were be- lieved to have escaped into Mis- sissippi. – PEACE REIGNS EMELLE, Ala., July 11.-Rifles and pistols were sheathed Tuesday and this strife-torn village com- pleted the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders arising from an inde- pendence 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 possemen had given up a three-day man hunt instituted after ‘a negro family en- gaged in a gun fight with a white family over the sale of an auto- bile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fu- gitives, 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 at Emelle.” Promises Thorough Quiz “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone im- plicated is going to be prosecuted,” 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 Monday 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 Nar- chetta, Miss., ten miles west of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen. Peace Reigns After Sumter Race Clashes -0- wo Whites, Four Negroes Dead As Aftermath Of July 4 Outbreak -0- MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 11. Governor Bibb Graves Monday morning offered rewards of $300 each for the party or patries re- sponsible for the deaths of two white men and four negroes in a series of disorders in and near Emelle, Ala., July 4 and 5. The white men killed were Gro- ver Boyd, garage proprietor at Emelle and Charlie Marrs, a farm- er. The negro dead: John Rob- ertson, Jacob Robertson, an uni- dentified negro slain at Mar- chetta, Miss., and a negro woman named Eyer. Search by posses and state law enforcement officers continued for three other negroes who were be- lieved to have escaped into Mis- sissippi. – PEACE REIGNS EMELLE, Ala., July 11.-Rifles and pistols were sheathed Tuesday and this strife-torn village com- pleted the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders arising from an inde- pendence 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 possemen had given up a three-day man hunt instituted after ‘a negro family en- gaged in a gun fight with a white family over the sale of an auto- bile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fu- gitives, 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 at Emelle.” Promises Thorough Quiz “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone im- plicated is going to be prosecuted,” 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 Monday 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 Nar- chetta, Miss., ten miles west of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen.