Show SLEW THE MARSHAL Raton New Mexico People Searching Search-Ing for a Negro and Lynching Lynch-ing Is Probable Baton N M June HA mob of 200 armed citizens Is scouring the country around here In search of a negro who shot and killed Night Marshal John Jones about midnight last I night If captured the murderer will be strung up to the nearest telegraph pole The shooting was most coldblooded Three negroes persisted In Insulting Jones and when he attempted to arrest them one of them fired a revolver at him I from behind a siiloon screen The Marshal J Mar-shal was shot through the neck the I II jugular vein being severed I A determined mob armed with sledge hammers chisels and revolvers i visited the county jail where the five negroes who are charged with complicity com-plicity In the murder of City Marshal John Jones vere supposed to be located lo-cated at 930 oclock tonight but the negroes had been spirited away No I resistance was made by the Sheriff much to the surprise oC the mob and Instead the doors of the Jail the Sheriffs Sher-iffs private living apartments and the courthouse were thrown open and the mob peeped In but no negro was to be found At 10 oclock another and much larger mob was formed and the city will be searched for the negroes Great excitement excite-ment prevails and live dead bodies will be hanging from the limb of a tree In the morning If their hiding place IB discovered The Sheriff is determined to protect the prisoners and fifteen armed deputies arc now guarding them |