Seven Taken To Kilby For Safe Keeping

SEVEN TAKEN TO KILBY FOR SAFEKEEPING Members Of Negro Family Give Up To Officers GRAVES PROBES EMELLE RIOTS Report Made On The Situation By McAdory MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 10.- (AP)-Seven of the crowd of members negro white family persons hours Boyd after at sought by an irate for 48 the slaying of Grover Emelle, Ala., July 4, resulting in the death of five other persons, one of them a white man, today were in Kilby prison here. brother, Jacob Esau, Robertson, lynched Friday whose twin was night, night other here six Wednes- Monday was brought and the were brought here Tuesday and day night by state law enforcement officers who kept the matter quiet until today. officers who took the ne- groes State said they skulking sur- into custody rendered voluntarily after since through last Friday without Emelle food a corn field near night were water. in a exhaustion said the when or Officers negroes state of they finally made their hiding place known. In addition to Jacob Jordan, J. W., James, Elbert, Andrew and here. Frank No charges have been Robertson now are in prison as yet preferred against them. In addition to white man, Charley Boyd, Marrs, another was slain the killing. during disorders however, following is be- the Marrs, lieved member to crowd the beseiging hands have died at of a of the the home of John Newton Robert- son, an uncle of Esau. John New- Robertson was slain and his home ton burned members said he of when Sheriff W. D. Scales’ force 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 Marrs, nephew, Captain Clarence Potter Boyd. 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 posses roaming the by section adjacent to the Mississippi line in search of Tom Robertson and his son. One, an unidentified negro fired on man, of after the he had was slain a member posse tion that at found Narcheta, Miss., and sought him in a railroad sta- to search him. The other was a Eyer, who was killed when posse negro woman, wife of the James the fired after her husband had failed a command to halt. Walter K. McAdory, chief law enforcement officer, who took charge of was expected the investigation make yesterday, complete to a re- port after to which Bibb governor Graves said Governor today the he would make a statement and take such action against those involved as the facts and evidence warrant- SEVEN TAKEN TO KILBY FOR SAFEKEEPING Members Of Negro Family Give Up To Officers GRAVES PROBES EMELLE RIOTS Report Made On The Situation By McAdory MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 10.- (AP)-Seven of the crowd of members negro white family persons hours Boyd after at sought by an irate for 48 the slaying of Grover Emelle, Ala., July 4, resulting in the death of five other persons, one of them a white man, today were in Kilby prison here. brother, Jacob Esau, Robertson, lynched Friday whose twin was night, night other here six Wednes- Monday was brought and the were brought here Tuesday and day night by state law enforcement officers who kept the matter quiet until today. officers who took the ne- groes State said they skulking sur- into custody rendered voluntarily after since through last Friday without Emelle food a corn field near night were water. in a exhaustion said the when or Officers negroes state of they finally made their hiding place known. In addition to Jacob Jordan, J. W., James, Elbert, Andrew and here. Frank No charges have been Robertson now are in prison as yet preferred against them. In addition to white man, Charley Boyd, Marrs, another was slain the killing. during disorders however, following is be- the Marrs, lieved member to crowd the beseiging hands have died at of a of the the home of John Newton Robert- son, an uncle of Esau. John New- Robertson was slain and his home ton burned members said he of when Sheriff W. D. Scales’ force 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 Marrs, nephew, Captain Clarence Potter Boyd. 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 posses roaming the by section adjacent to the Mississippi line in search of Tom Robertson and his son. One, an unidentified negro fired on man, of after the he had was slain a member posse tion that at found Narcheta, Miss., and sought him in a railroad sta- to search him. The other was a Eyer, who was killed when posse negro woman, wife of the James the fired after her husband had failed a command to halt. Walter K. McAdory, chief law enforcement officer, who took charge of was expected the investigation make yesterday, complete to a re- port after to which Bibb governor Graves said Governor today the he would make a statement and take such action against those involved as the facts and evidence warrant-