Two More Die As Posse Hunt Emelle Negroes

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Andalusia Star
Place of publication: Andalusia, Alabama
Date of publication: 7/8/1930 0:00
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TWO MORE DIE AS POSSES HUNT LEMELLE NEGROES Slain Woman, Man Bring Ala- bama Town’s Toll To Six Killed MONTGOMERY, ALA.. July When Gov. Graves learned of the two additional killings near Emelle, one of which occurred across the line in Miss- issippi. he declared that every resource at his command would be used, if necessary to restore order. He said he had talked wtih Sheriff Scales, of Sumter County Saturday and that the sheriff had assured him he needed no assistance. The Governor said he then told the sheriff the latter would be held responsible for maintaining order. Gov. Graves added that the reward he offered Saturday were not alone for negroes but for the capture of any- one responsible for murder at Emelle, white or black . The Governor was in telephonic communication last night with Capt. Potter Smith, of the state law en- forcement departemnt, who is in Em- elle. Capt. Smith told the Governor the death of the negro woman early Sunday morning, had no connection with the clash at Emelle, and that Emelle was quiet last night. EMELLE, ALA., July 6-Two negroes slain early today by armed posses searching for four negroes sought in connection with the slaying of two white men brought to six the deaths growing out of disorders arising the Fourth of July. Quiet again prevailed late today with roving bands of more than 200 men again disbanding, after a night of chas- ing wild reports of the four negroes being sighted at various places. Lead- ers said they were convinced the ne- groes, Tom Robertson and his sons, Esau, Ollie and John, had fled into Mississippi. Those killed early today were an un- identified negro in the railway station at Narchetta, Miss., and a negro wo- man, whose husband, James Eyer, fail- ed to heed a command of a posse to bring his automobile to a stop on a road near the Alabama-Mississippi State line. The previous death list included: Grover Boyd, white, storekeeper. Charlie Marrs, a white farmer. John Robertson, negro, brother of Tom. (Continued On Back Page TWO MORE DIE AS POSSES HUNT LEMELLE NEGROES Slain Woman, Man Bring Ala- bama Town’s Toll To Six Killed MONTGOMERY, ALA.. July When Gov. Graves learned of the two additional killings near Emelle, one of which occurred across the line in Miss- issippi. he declared that every resource at his command would be used, if necessary to restore order. He said he had talked wtih Sheriff Scales, of Sumter County Saturday and that the sheriff had assured him he needed no assistance. The Governor said he then told the sheriff the latter would be held responsible for maintaining order. Gov. Graves added that the reward he offered Saturday were not alone for negroes but for the capture of any- one responsible for murder at Emelle, white or black . The Governor was in telephonic communication last night with Capt. Potter Smith, of the state law en- forcement departemnt, who is in Em- elle. Capt. Smith told the Governor the death of the negro woman early Sunday morning, had no connection with the clash at Emelle, and that Emelle was quiet last night. EMELLE, ALA., July 6-Two negroes slain early today by armed posses searching for four negroes sought in connection with the slaying of two white men brought to six the deaths growing out of disorders arising the Fourth of July. Quiet again prevailed late today with roving bands of more than 200 men again disbanding, after a night of chas- ing wild reports of the four negroes being sighted at various places. Lead- ers said they were convinced the ne- groes, Tom Robertson and his sons, Esau, Ollie and John, had fled into Mississippi. Those killed early today were an un- identified negro in the railway station at Narchetta, Miss., and a negro wo- man, whose husband, James Eyer, fail- ed to heed a command of a posse to bring his automobile to a stop on a road near the Alabama-Mississippi State line. The previous death list included: Grover Boyd, white, storekeeper. Charlie Marrs, a white farmer. John Robertson, negro, brother of Tom. (Continued On Back Page