| Show MOB AFTER NEGROES Kansas City Jail Surrounded fl by a Great Crowd I WANT LIVES OF THREE FIENDS Clamor for Vengeance Against Black Mjtfn WhR Crinxumlly Assaulted Grace Davis in fC Populous rind I Highly Respectable Neighborhood of the City Mob Lacked a Leader and Police Finally Forced It Back Raid on the Negro Quarters in NoIth End of City Followed Kansas City Mo July 13A crowd of 2000 excited men and boys surrounded surround-ed the county jail In this city last night and early this morning clamoring clamor-ing for engeance against three negroes I who criminally ansaulted Miss Grace Davis Wednesday night In a populous and highly respectable neighborhood Eight suspects two of whom have been Identified are held at the jail CAUSE FOR TUB MOB The crime which incensed the citizens of this city Is ono of the most daring outrages ever perpetrated here Miss Davis and her csvort Ycrnie Newton were walking home after having spent the evening at Troost park At Nineteenth Nine-teenth street and Woodlawn avenue three negroes sprang upon them from behind Newton was knocked senseless sense-less and Miss Davis was dragged 100 feet Into a private park and assaulted When she recovered consciousness her escort was still Insensible They are both in a critical condition The mob about the jail Is largely composed of the rough element such an gathers eager for trouble of any nort It appeared to be leaderless and dpzcns of Influential citizens urged the people to go home tIs said that six of the negro suspects sus-pects have been spirited away to the work house The negroes still in jail are the two who have been Identified Joseph Roberts and Count Holland There Is deep feElIng over the outrage among all olaS > s of the community which had aiiedybeen aroused by the murder of Tom Scrugg son of a prominent citizen by a gang of roughs I In Troost park last month BLACK MEN ATTACKED At 1230 oclock the mob began beat InS negroes with whom a quarrel 1 could bo provoked and ten black men were assaulted A number of pistol shots were fired but no one was wounded MOB DRIVEN BACK At 1215 oclock thirtyfive policemen drove the mob from the courthouse block but 500 of them remain In the streets a block away A rumor Is I current cur-rent that a big crowd of stockyards men would arrive at J oclock prepared to storm the Jail proved unfounded RAID ON NEGRO QUARTERS At 115 l oclock this Saturday mornIng morn-Ing tho mob seemed to have abandoned fts lynching plans and 500 men In squads of seventyfive began raiding the negro quarters In the north end chasing and beating negroes and smashing windows |
