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Show Machine Gun Disperse Mob Atlanta, Ga. Governor Hardwlck has signed an order authorizing Adjutant General Lewis T. Pope to estaldish military rule at Savannah, where a mob threatened the Jail Tuesday to capture a negro held on a charge of attacking a white woman in the event the situation demanded such action. The mob formed shortly before midnight Tuesday when word spread throughout the city that Lee was being held in the city Jail. Sheriff Sher-iff Merritt W. Dixon sought to disperse dis-perse the gathering but failed. lie then orderd city firemen to turn water wa-ter on the mob, and six streams poured out. Brick were hurled at the firemen and Chief Henry was struck. Meanwhile the troops were called out by Mayor Z. A. Brooks. A detachment de-tachment of machine gunners under command of Major A. Bussell Moore reached the Jail and took position. A section of the mob bean to close In and firing ensued. |