Show BULLETS FAIL TO STOP HIM dragged fro from m prison by a mob a negro wounded fights his way through a storm of bullets LYNCHBURG va march 15 Will william iain clement a negro in jail here on a charge of felonious assault was dragged from his cell early today by a lynching lunching lyn ching party he resisted desperately and his captors opened fire on him with the same revolvers which had cowed the although severely injured the negro fought on and at the jail entrance shook himself free and bolted through the armed crowd in a storm of bullets he scaled an eight foot fence and escaped the mob dispersed and later the sheriff found clement lying in a nearby house with six bullets in his body he was taken back to the jail in a cri critical condition in the fight he tore the masks from several of his adversaries and warrants have been issued for the arrest of those whom he recognized N V V Y world when old ben harrison ran for president of the united states he promised the negroes that if they would pull off their coats and throw up their hats and shout and halloo and vote for him and that in case he was elected president he would not permit his white fellow citizens to continue the practice of shooting of lynching lunching lyn ching or of mobbing their black brothers but as a matter of fact there were more people mobbed lynched and hung while he occupied the white house than what there were under any of his predecessors when the hon wm win mckinley received the nomination for president of the united states he informed the blacks that if they would continue to stand by the g 0 lilly white party ship and that in case the ship landed all of them safely on the shores of the potomac river he would gather them the blacks under his protecting wings the same as the old hen gathers her young chicks under her wings but now that major mckinley has become president of the united states it appears that he has dropped the members of our race the same as he would drop a red hot potato |