Village Buries Riot Victims

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Chico Enterprise
Place of publication: Chico, California
Date of publication: 7/7/1930 0:00
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VILLAGE BURIES RIOT VICTIMS EMBLLE, Ala., July 7,-(A) Rines and pistols were sheathed today as this strife torn village completed burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes- slain in disorders arising from an Indépendence Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had given up a three-day man- hunt, instituted after a negro fam- ily Engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the payment for an automobile battery. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the commands of White searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both oft he negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has. not been apprehended. 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, ran to his aid and was fatally 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 posséman. and wounded Jim Ayres, anothet white man. VILLAGE BURIES RIOT VICTIMS EMBLLE, Ala., July 7,-(A) Rines and pistols were sheathed today as this strife torn village completed burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes- slain in disorders arising from an Indépendence Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had given up a three-day man- hunt, instituted after a negro fam- ily Engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the payment for an automobile battery. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the commands of White searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both oft he negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has. not been apprehended. 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, ran to his aid and was fatally 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 posséman. and wounded Jim Ayres, anothet white man.