TEXAS LYNCHING BLOODTHIRSTY MOB

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1930, Page 3

TEXAS LYNCHING

BLOODTHIRSTY MOB

United Press Association— Ry Electri Telegraph- .Copyright;.

f NEW YORK, May 9.

A lynching by hie is reported Iroln .Sherman stales that Governor Moody sent to the State forces an oru*i saying: —J! ‘Hold .them. if you can'K L» not s.ioouv' a.nybouy.’ ! Despite nnthc National Guardsmen’s aid, iliowevei. the Texas Rangel’s -were unable to prevent a mob iioim burning the courthouse gaol at Sherman, ui which a negro was being held for attaching a wiute woman, ine ’'Rangers repeliqu the rioters three times with, gas bomns, but .the mob later entered and poiireu oat pertol ami then set lire to the structure, front - whion aIF escaped except the negro, who was cremated in a steel vault, where he was played fo. protection. Firemen battered .furiously. to quench the flames, but the nio;. slashed their hose lines.

The local authorities have stated that they, will make wholesale arrests.: A later message states that ihe violence broke ,piit j one ;paft. of a mob Of Several thousand persons puttied frith. in the main square of the town, while another'group 'stormed' the gaol, tear-.. ing. ,"down valid dyna/nitihg.: file walls,., to “asceftalii ’if the negro was burned, ; as officers claimed. Two iheii were s|iot', and, Captain ■Dunlop, who was ; commanding the viuardsnien was badly injuped.; , : The negro- quarter' of the -c;ty - h#B r' hefeji. deserted.'* The authorities ifearifurthe. trouble there, as the rnob- -is showing an uncontrollable and apparently ai increasing fury., >

WORST RIOTS FOR YEARS. NEW YORK, 'May 10. A further’ message from ’Sherman, in Texas j states that the- riiob early tliis mornihg cut open the vaiilt wittr acetylene • tbrohes 1 ■to A drag 'lfitif- the f negro, who prayed to- haVe Bhen sui-;-located ■ auHn|g l the court house" -ure/and -they'li’tfng : his hoky Rf a tree. ' Fif tedii' kf * Che Giiob -r i ngieitfldr s ( were apprehended by the 'Natfoh’ftl Giiard., Tide veil bf i#fiN|‘|iui6k} [• ly ; discharged;' ! ' ' ’ L ’ | The officials have decided.-tS ifequesi the GoverhtfFtbrput4he mil-. itarV law. '' ’ ’ ' " " P*., . The mob, which for twelve hours "rilshed if city, 'doinj'- violence ■ to "fe^.^e^roes Upon whom to wreak revenue, * ended ; their reign, of terror only after theyhad burned three bfocks of'buildings ih the negro' section .early' this morning, and, beijvy rain paused; theiri to • .disperse. With.,the coming '..bf . May-. :Jight, f they r: Gftithe; city,• ; ii} control of ; tfie ySfateyjjplice and, theptroppsP;;,: ; -,, Ndt>ip.:, ; regqri|i dyers' 'hu£j ; a|iy; r cjan : acity-. jof* awful 'rioting and THfeont‘rol|fl,hte 3mjOb ; : passions • USu 'Sherman did during this . lynching. V‘noiri" <r . jeen 1 , : 7v/i ■••’■eH-.-.i'tok: . : 'gViH -Dm• "