Troops Protect Wounded Negro From Angry Mob Part 1

TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Aug. 15-(U P)-A company of the Alabama na- tional guard surrounded the county jail today to protect the negro vic- tim of a bungled lynching as threats were circulated that a mob storm the jail. The negro was Elmore Clark, 28, who was taken from the sheriff Sat- urday night with Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, and A. T. Harden, 16, also ne- groes. The bodies of Pippen and Harden were found riddled with bullets in a roadside ditch early Sunday. Clark was found in a shanty last TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Aug. 15-(U P)-A company of the Alabama na- tional guard surrounded the county jail today to protect the negro vic- tim of a bungled lynching as threats were circulated that a mob storm the jail. The negro was Elmore Clark, 28, who was taken from the sheriff Sat- urday night with Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, and A. T. Harden, 16, also ne- groes. The bodies of Pippen and Harden were found riddled with bullets in a roadside ditch early Sunday. Clark was found in a shanty last