Possemen Give Up Search For Negro Slayers

POSSEMEN GIVE UP SEARCH FOR NEGRO SLAYERS Rewards Offered For Persons Who Incited Killings At Emelle, Alabama – EMELLE, Ala., July 7-(A)) Rifles and pistols were sheathed to- day as 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 dispite. Four other negroes, each with a prize of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had giv- en up a three day manhunt, ineti- tuted after a negro family engaged in gun fight with a white family over the payment for an automo- bile battery. The official rewards, Governor Bibb Graves said at Montgomery, “are not merely for negroes who killed white men” but “for the ar- rest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” Pair Shot Down An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover 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 killed yesterday, officers said, wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search. On Independence Day A Tom Robertson and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had re- claimed 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 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 wouned Jim Ayers, another white man. POSSEMEN GIVE UP SEARCH FOR NEGRO SLAYERS Rewards Offered For Persons Who Incited Killings At Emelle, Alabama – EMELLE, Ala., July 7-(A)) Rifles and pistols were sheathed to- day as 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 dispite. Four other negroes, each with a prize of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had giv- en up a three day manhunt, ineti- tuted after a negro family engaged in gun fight with a white family over the payment for an automo- bile battery. The official rewards, Governor Bibb Graves said at Montgomery, “are not merely for negroes who killed white men” but “for the ar- rest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” Pair Shot Down An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover 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 killed yesterday, officers said, wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search. On Independence Day A Tom Robertson and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had re- claimed 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 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 wouned Jim Ayers, another white man.