Show L SAVED FROM A MOB Colored Han and Woman Spirited Away by Illinois Sheriff From Batavia Ill I Chicago Aug 21To prevent a possible lynching u Chicago colored man and woman wo-man were spirited away from a crowd surrounding the jail at Bata vIIt III to iilght and locked up In the county prlaon it Geneva rho prisoners had been arrested ar-rested after a series of encounters between be-tween resIdents of the village and participants par-ticipants In the picnic of the negroes of the Quinn nnd Bethel chapels About 3000 colored men and women made up the picnic party at Mill creek two miles south of Batavia The neyrocs took OBSession of the lawn of Mis George Burtons place and when she ordered them to IIMVU Fhe was rcpeatedlv struck by two of the negro women City Marshal Kelly arrested the Iwo I womn but was at once attacked by u crowd of 200 negroes who succetdoa In re leanlncr the prlaonera I leaving Kelly unconscious un-conscious on the ground Later In the day Shcrin Robert Burke of Geneva with a posse of fort nc citi tens arrested three of the negro u Wil liam Allen Hurry Bell and Fanny fcnelby 1 1 taking them from a train at Bauula after a desperate battle In the rnllwa coach and on the depot plntform Both Bell and the Shelby woman wcro locked up In the town jail until the tfath oring of a large crowd of citizens caused the city officials to order their removal to Genera Allen later was released |