Race War in South at End After Burial

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Grand Island Daily Independent
Place of publication: Grand Island, Nebraska
Date of publication: 7/7/1930 0:00
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Race War in R South at End H After Burial so W se Final Toll Is Two Whites and an Four Negroes-Two sit su Others Free y th th REWARD FOR CAPTURE W w et Fight First Started After Negro Fam- w ily Slays White Garageman and Son m Over Debt-Two of Negroes Killed a Sunday. c H Emelle, Ala., July 7. (AP)-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife-torn village completed the bur- ial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders aris- ing from an Independence Day debt dispute. o Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were d at large, but virtually all of several e. hundred white possement had given g up a three day manhunt, instituted d after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over payment for an automobile battery. Kinsmen An unidentified negro man and VI- ola 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 is and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robert- son, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro killed yes- g terday, officers said, replied with bul- al lets and wounded Clarence Bush, a d white man, upon being ordered to t submit to a search. The negro wo- man was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the e command of possemen. n On Independence Day Tom Rob is ertson and his solls attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an ty automobile battery for which the ne- d groes had failed to pay him. Fired Home d. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence, d ran to his aid and was fatally shot in by one of the negroes. . at A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob en Robertson, who had participated in t- the attack, fired the home of John h Robertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie te, Marrs, a white posseman, and ed wounded Jim Ayers, another white m man. Race War in R South at End H After Burial so W se Final Toll Is Two Whites and an Four Negroes-Two sit su Others Free y th th REWARD FOR CAPTURE W w et Fight First Started After Negro Fam- w ily Slays White Garageman and Son m Over Debt-Two of Negroes Killed a Sunday. c H Emelle, Ala., July 7. (AP)-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife-torn village completed the bur- ial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders aris- ing from an Independence Day debt dispute. o Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were d at large, but virtually all of several e. hundred white possement had given g up a three day manhunt, instituted d after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over payment for an automobile battery. Kinsmen An unidentified negro man and VI- ola 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 is and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robert- son, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro killed yes- g terday, officers said, replied with bul- al lets and wounded Clarence Bush, a d white man, upon being ordered to t submit to a search. The negro wo- man was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the e command of possemen. n On Independence Day Tom Rob is ertson and his solls attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an ty automobile battery for which the ne- d groes had failed to pay him. Fired Home d. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence, d ran to his aid and was fatally shot in by one of the negroes. . at A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob en Robertson, who had participated in t- the attack, fired the home of John h Robertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie te, Marrs, a white posseman, and ed wounded Jim Ayers, another white m man.