Seven Carried To Kilby And Two Others Found At Birmingham Suburb

Seven Carried To Kilby And Two Others Found At Birmingham Suburb MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 10.- (A))-Seven members of the negro family sought by an irate crowd of white persons for fofty-eight hours after the slaying of Grover Boyd at Emelle, Ala., July 4, resulting in the death of five other persons, one of them a white man. today were in Kilby prison here. Jacob Robertson, whose twin brother Esau was lynched Friday night, was brought here Tuesday night by state enforcement officials who kept the matter quiet until to- day. State officers who took the other six negroes into custody said they surrendered voluntarily after skulk- ing through a corn field near Emelle since last Friday night without food or water. Officers said the negroes were in a state of exhaustion when they finally made their hiding place known. In addition to Jacob, Jordan. J. W. James, Elbert, Andrew and Frank Robertson, are now in the prison here. No charges, as yet, have been preferred against them. In addition to Boyd, another white man Charlie Marrs was slain, 0.1- ing the disorders following the kill- ing. Marrs, however, is believed to have died at the hands of a mem- ber of the crowd beseiging the home of John Newton Robertson, an un- cle of Esau. John Newton Robert- son was slain and his home burned when members of Sheriff W. D. Scales force said he resisted efforts to search his home for his brother Tom and his three sons, sought in connection with the slaying of Boyd and an attack on his nephew, Clar- ence Boyd. Marrs, Captain Potter Smith of the state law enforcement force, said was shot in the back of the head. The other two negroes who died during the disorders Were slain Sat- urday night by posses roaming the section adjactmt to the Mississippi line in search of Tom Robertson and his sons. One an unidentified negro man was slain after he had fired on a member of the posse that found him in a railway station at Narchetta, Miss., and sought to search him. The other was a negro woman, the wife of James Eyer, who was killed when the posse fired after her hus- band had falled to obey a command to halt. Walter K. McAdory, chief law en- forcement officer, who took charge of the investigation yesterday. was expected to make a complete report to Governor Bibb Graves today, after which the governor has said he would make a statement and take such action against those involved as the facts and evidence warranted Two Suspects Jailed BIRMINGHAM, ALA., July 10.- (AP)-Two negroes said by officers to have admitted they are sons of John (Continued on Page Three) Seven Carried To Kilby And Two Others Found At Birmingham Suburb MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 10.- (A))-Seven members of the negro family sought by an irate crowd of white persons for fofty-eight hours after the slaying of Grover Boyd at Emelle, Ala., July 4, resulting in the death of five other persons, one of them a white man. today were in Kilby prison here. Jacob Robertson, whose twin brother Esau was lynched Friday night, was brought here Tuesday night by state enforcement officials who kept the matter quiet until to- day. State officers who took the other six negroes into custody said they surrendered voluntarily after skulk- ing through a corn field near Emelle since last Friday night without food or water. Officers said the negroes were in a state of exhaustion when they finally made their hiding place known. In addition to Jacob, Jordan. J. W. James, Elbert, Andrew and Frank Robertson, are now in the prison here. No charges, as yet, have been preferred against them. In addition to Boyd, another white man Charlie Marrs was slain, 0.1- ing the disorders following the kill- ing. Marrs, however, is believed to have died at the hands of a mem- ber of the crowd beseiging the home of John Newton Robertson, an un- cle of Esau. John Newton Robert- son was slain and his home burned when members of Sheriff W. D. Scales force said he resisted efforts to search his home for his brother Tom and his three sons, sought in connection with the slaying of Boyd and an attack on his nephew, Clar- ence Boyd. Marrs, Captain Potter Smith of the state law enforcement force, said was shot in the back of the head. The other two negroes who died during the disorders Were slain Sat- urday night by posses roaming the section adjactmt to the Mississippi line in search of Tom Robertson and his sons. One an unidentified negro man was slain after he had fired on a member of the posse that found him in a railway station at Narchetta, Miss., and sought to search him. The other was a negro woman, the wife of James Eyer, who was killed when the posse fired after her hus- band had falled to obey a command to halt. Walter K. McAdory, chief law en- forcement officer, who took charge of the investigation yesterday. was expected to make a complete report to Governor Bibb Graves today, after which the governor has said he would make a statement and take such action against those involved as the facts and evidence warranted Two Suspects Jailed BIRMINGHAM, ALA., July 10.- (AP)-Two negroes said by officers to have admitted they are sons of John (Continued on Page Three)