Show 90 No lJ I nJ IER ON MOB KILL FOUR R MEN fARMERS fARMERS' PRESS J TO EJ NE R Lexington ICy Ky Crowd Tries to Control Courthouse Troops Fire and 19 Fall Martial i. Law Lav Proclaimed IBY I. I By Br Associated s Ir I L ON Ky Feb 9 D.- D. MartiaL LJ law prevails pre tonight Six Inin- Inin dred ireci federal and state stafe troops are arc patrolling patrolling pa pa- patrolling pa- pa trolling the streets to prevent further rioting which toda today exacted a 1 toll o of or four dead and fifteen wounded The city was quiet but authorities fear a recurrence of violence Five Fi hundred a additional United States troops from Camp Taylor will arrive tomorrow morning Lexington and all Fayette Faette county w was placed under uner n martial Jaw J hv BrigGen Gen F. F C. C Marshall upon arrival from Ironi Camp Taylor Talor with troops of the First division ision Rioting began this morning when a 1 amob mob bent on lynching William Lockett a no negro nebro who cone confessed sed to the murder last week cek of ot a year old girl Geneva a was fired tIred upon with rifles and machine nachIne guns suns by state stale militiamen men menas as the mob was as storming the tho Payette Fayette county courthouse to get the negro at atthe atthe atthe the time of ot the trial X Negro Found Guilty The attempt to lynch Lockett was as made j Just st after he h had d Confessed to the murder and as the Jury found him guilty of ot murder In the first degree lIe He was sentenced to die dlo In the electric chair March 11 I The Tho shooting ng temporarily dispersed the mob and gave save the authorities time timeto to which to rush Lockett to a secret place for tor safety Fearing an attack upon the handful of ot national guardsmen on duty the au authorities au- au appealed to Governor Morrow for tor assistance As a result troops I members of o the Twenty sixth and the Twenty eighth infantry arrived ed at 5 o'clock on a a. special train from Camp Taylor Talor The federal troops immediately be bean began began be- be gan an the streets to keep the tho crowds from congregating Lockett arrested last Tuesday p night and hold held in the state penitentiary at Frankfort for safe saCe keeping was In Indicted Indicted Indicted In- In late last week and was waa brought here on a special train this morning lor for trial He lie was heavily guarded Sullenly Watch Hundreds of ot farmers from the surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding country countr arrived oo to attend the trial and sullenly looked at the prisoner prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner as he w was as s marched from the train to the courthouse between lines of state ot-state state soldiers hen When the trial opened the I courtroom was crowded to cap Ever Every one was searched for tor firearms before being being- a admitted to the courthouse court court- house Hundreds gathered gath red In the street in front of the courthouse The cr cry Lets get him from a brawny farmer on the outskirts of ot the tho crowd turned the crowd into a mob which began surging toward the build build- ing Soldiers and police dropped back Into close formation and trained their guns uns on tho the mob which never hesi A Adjutant General Genral Deweese In command com corn mand of ot the thA militiamen a a. final warning rn t to the tho crowd and thee fired tired a revolver into the air It was as the tho signal for the troops to fire Police Pollee Fire Ire blink Soldiers and police pollee shot point-blank point Into thu tho crowd and a nearby machine gun run rattled From tho windows of ot the courtroom above another h hall hail ll of oC bullets bullets bullets bul bul- lets spattered 1 down on tho the asphalt street Four jour men nen foil Cell oil at the first volley The mob which had surged hall half way waT up lii tho the steps pressed back bach and aid broke Quick action on OJ the part of oC the author Hies got ot the tho o out lt of tho the building Those killed in the th clash were B. B J 1 F. F Carrier and L. L M. M I. I King Ing both of or Lexington Lexing Lexing- ton and John Thomas and William both hath of ot Versailles J. J M. M nO Bogers 61 a farmer of ot ne near r rYer Versailles Yer Woodford county shot by bytho b bythe the tho guardsmen In the fighting righting morning died tonight from froni his InJurIes Injuries Injuries ries bringing bringing- the death list to five Among Am ng those wounded J J. W W. Stansell Y W. J. J Hees Otla Otis Sharp Emmett Dozier Dozler Irwin G Gwynn nn 1 Emmett Fred l Sowders So H. H C. C Mrs E. E T T. Cross Cross' and James I J bul h p Implored Foiled In hi Its Us first attempt to get thi hr the prisoner th the tho mob broke up into mali groups which o mild Duld id hurried visits to all the tho pawnshops and arni hardware stores In a a. quest for firearms In Continued on page vaSt 2 i 4 TROOPS FIRE ON M 08 B KILL 4 IN Continued from Pago 1 1 I some stores as man many man manas as fifty or or slit revolvers re and guns were seized Groups of or con congregated on streets and sou sought ht to learn the whet when he of oC Lockett Tho The word that f U rei ular arm army troops were coming rapidly and no further violence nce vi W attempted Lockett's arrest Indictment trial I a II i sentence ten co sets a.- a. new a-new new record for rapid I in Kentucky He lIe wa was arrested J Ja II Tue Tuesday da nl night ht indicted Friday Frida and WI w tried found guilty and sentenced I Ia 1 a few minutes today toda Under his Sc Ie sei I tence he will die clio In lii the electric ch cb March 1 13 I The Tho little Hardman girls irl's hod body Od 1 discovered mutilated in a c corn m ft fl last Tuesday morn morning inS inS' after ana abe hc left leq her home homo for tor school schoot Her head fl h been crushed in with a stone and b n bed bod partially co covered with corn stal Didn't I Know no r Lockett recently discharged fi from m. m arm army was suspected and posses poses W sc formed Immediately to look loor- for tor ILlie IL h He lie was as found at t t the home of a frisi fri I si six miles from the scene of oC the Ine m mI m der riel late that night Police I that the negro nero had confessed to I didn t kno I murder adding that he why he had killed the girl Irl Governor Morrow late this artern warrant signed Ined Lockett's death negro will die In tho f electric chairlie chair the lie state Halo penitentiary March 11 H. p |