Two More Slain as Posses Seek Emelle Killers

TWO MORE SLAIN AS POSSES SEEK EMELLE KILLERS (Continued from Page One) of this business and anyone impli- cated is going to be prosecuted,” he asserted. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the commands or white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grov- er Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men were killed and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro shot to death yesterday, officers said, re- plied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot at Narketta, Miss, ten miles west of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his auto- mobile at the command of the possemen, On Independence Day, Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence’s, ran to his aid and was fatal- ly 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 Ayres, another white man. TWO MORE SLAIN AS POSSES SEEK EMELLE KILLERS (Continued from Page One) of this business and anyone impli- cated is going to be prosecuted,” he asserted. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the commands or white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grov- er Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men were killed and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro shot to death yesterday, officers said, re- plied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot at Narketta, Miss, ten miles west of here. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his auto- mobile at the command of the possemen, On Independence Day, Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence’s, ran to his aid and was fatal- ly 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 Ayres, another white man.