Show TROOPS TO MOB ILLINOIS ILLINOIS GOVERNOR ORDERS OUT SOLDIERS TO HELP PRESERVE ORDER sheriff prevents lynching lunching Lyn ching of negroes by rushing them to penitent Pe I 1 biary As sus pacts i mound city ill following a series mobs which of narrow escapes from twice threatened their lives three negroes rested behind the safe walls walla of the illinois state penitentiary at menard ill harrowed by their experience peri ence Th ethree rie negroes groes two of whom claim residence in 31 memphis tenn and one in cario ill arestad here as suspects in connection with the slaying of daisy wilson pretty 18 year old villa ridge girl was taken to menard as a last resort measure by sheriff I 1 J hudson of pulaski county after the jail at mounds ill and later at mound city where here they had been held were e surrounded by threatening mobs As a result of the demonstrations governor len small of illinois ordered the immediate mobilization of company K illinois infantry to proceed here and aid county authorities in restoring order the negroes denied the crime crim e A moti mob formed in villa ridge and the sheriff fearing trouble took the negroes to the mounds jail where another crowd quickly gathered and threats were voiced to lynch them when trouble was imminent IT F moreland a ku klux klan organizer offered an eloquent plea for the negroes lives concluded by a prayer during which the crowd stood respectfully with bared bowed heads with the crowd quieted temporarily the negroes were quickly brought here the crowd followed in automobiles wilson father of the murdered sirl girl who was badly beaten in an attempted robbery of his store and an who had been unable to identify hia assailants declared one the negroes who gave the name as ike brown ol of memphis had done the shooting at this assertion the crowd threatened to attack the jail in which the three negroes were held and several shots were fired into the air fearing a more determined assault sheriff hudson under cover of eark cark ness less led the negroes from the rear of his home adjacent to the jail and escaped by auto accompanied by several of his deputies |