Show sheriff R kill ilia two men bien in defending prisoner against mob walter alter blankenship bip was killed and his brother arthur fatally fatall r injured while lead leading ing a mob at ashville N C thursday which attempted to take a negro irom front the sheriff and lynch him the negro had been convicted of rape and sentenced to hang september 20 tho prisoner was waa spirited to birmingham for safe keeping tho the crime for which brown will hang bang was committed on may 7 near springfield brown left the vicinity at once first going to airm birmingham engham then to anniston Annis too and atlanta and finally to charleston S C where he be was wag captured |