Town of Emelle, Ala., Aside Guns and Counts Cost in Human Life- – Posse Gives Up Hunt for Four Negroes– Rewards Offered for Arrest and Conviction of Responsible Parties, White or Black.

Town of Emelle, Ala., Lays Aside Guns and Counts Cost in Human Life-Posse Gives Up Hunt for Four Negroes -Rewards Offered for Arrest and Conviction of Responsible Partics, White or Black EMELLE. Aia. July and pisto.s were sheathed today and this st-tic-torn village compe ed the burial of its dead-tito white mm and four negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Independence c-y debt dispute Four other negroes ech with & price of $300 on his head still were at large but 1.7 u.1.y a. of S..- ear hundred white posseman given up a three-day man huat, Instituted after a negro family en- gea in a gun fight with 3 white family over the sale of an au oma- bile battery Official rewards which have been poste d.or the four Legro lugitives, Governor Blbb Gra es said at Mont- gomery. “are not merey for negroes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the errest and convic ion of anybody, white or black. respon- sible at Emelle ” “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone impli- cated is going to De prosecuted.” he asserted An unidentified man and Viola Dial. a negro woman. were shot to death early Sunday when the com- mands of white searchers were not obeyed Previously Grover Boyd and and Charlie Marrs, both white men. were kliled and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson. who with three sons, ficed and has not been appre- hended. The unidentified negro shot to death yesterday, officers said. replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot ab Narkeeta Miss. 10 miles west of here The negro woman was siain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen On Independence day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clar- once Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery 1or which the negroes had falled to ray him. Grover Boyd an uncle of Clar- ence’s, ran to his aid and was fatality 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 wounded Jim Ayers another white man Town of Emelle, Ala., Lays Aside Guns and Counts Cost in Human Life-Posse Gives Up Hunt for Four Negroes -Rewards Offered for Arrest and Conviction of Responsible Partics, White or Black EMELLE. Aia. July and pisto.s were sheathed today and this st-tic-torn village compe ed the burial of its dead-tito white mm and four negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Independence c-y debt dispute Four other negroes ech with & price of $300 on his head still were at large but 1.7 u.1.y a. of S..- ear hundred white posseman given up a three-day man huat, Instituted after a negro family en- gea in a gun fight with 3 white family over the sale of an au oma- bile battery Official rewards which have been poste d.or the four Legro lugitives, Governor Blbb Gra es said at Mont- gomery. “are not merey for negroes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the errest and convic ion of anybody, white or black. respon- sible at Emelle ” “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone impli- cated is going to De prosecuted.” he asserted An unidentified man and Viola Dial. a negro woman. were shot to death early Sunday when the com- mands of white searchers were not obeyed Previously Grover Boyd and and Charlie Marrs, both white men. were kliled and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson. who with three sons, ficed and has not been appre- hended. The unidentified negro shot to death yesterday, officers said. replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot ab Narkeeta Miss. 10 miles west of here The negro woman was siain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen On Independence day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clar- once Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery 1or which the negroes had falled to ray him. Grover Boyd an uncle of Clar- ence’s, ran to his aid and was fatality 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 wounded Jim Ayers another white man