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Show p OF THUD SINKM DOOR Sferiated Citizens Determined ?IK Lynch Negro Who As-Wft As-Wft saulted Young Woman. felteEHIFF -AND DEPUTIES EE FIRE ON THE INVADERS Bpd Scenes of Excitement at HLr(anbiirg, S. 0., Following Kptnre of Black Brnte. JHtTANBURG, S. 0., Oct. 10. In Hurt of Spartanburg with its 20,000 ?Biion a mob of infuriated citizens, Hnes numbering 1000 or more, Bf today and tonight with the ijHk and civil authorities for posscs-jB.of posscs-jB.of John Irby, a negro, who at-jRed at-jRed to ravish Miss Lillie Dcmpscy Kr in tho day, whilo the young jBtn was on her way hero from Saxon tlB' "village, three miles away. Pour ijpnii were wounded, one of them ser-sBlj, ser-sBlj, and John Sparks, a restaurant SjRer, was arrested and held without. (yBon the charge of shooting Sheriff imH'oIs, who was slightly wounded in ftjEgxchonge of shots between the mob ;5flB'tho authorities who were protecting jTKirembling prisoner in the jail, fc HN -rst shot .come, from .a. window ?Kie jail, and it was followed by 2Kr3'-from the -same - -quarter. , An "JJEering shot was fired from tho VJpi. This broke a 'window in the Iflwnd slightly wounded Sheriff Nich-2JRSparks Nich-2JRSparks was accused of the skoot-f2and skoot-f2and immediately taken into cus-rjflR cus-rjflR His attorneys offered bail of jBO' tonight, but it was refused. :B Militia on the Ground. JBiEt before nightfall tho guard at iMPjail was. augmented by the arrival Hpo Morgan Rifles, fifty strong, from iHon, a suburban mill town. The JJBmny was rushed to the jail. The ijjBpptou guards, forty strong, the lo-iSIKcompaiiy lo-iSIKcompaiiy of state troops, had been Sie jail since 1 o'clock today. A Brcd regulation army rifles pro-jjBrd pro-jjBrd from the windows, doors and fjHbcs of the jail. Governor Ansel aHm? honrt in Greenville, forty miles djflt ol her . on a special train tonight. JBthis is a prohibition town, the main HrL'' ot supplying tho demand for -;Bi'jr is lurough the offices of the MilliMU Exjrr ?s company, and that !lfcibl5slmii,n as u measure of prccau jgjfti was eloped so lar as the delivery Igjkvli'sk.v wna concerned. There were Sjjfnts f dynt'tniting the jail, and pre-SyMtions pre-SyMtions woro taken to have all known jAIics of the explosive guarded. kpm Mob Grows Larger, 'ralptc tonight the situation again bc-rfmu bc-rfmu alarming. The crowd was aug-ted aug-ted by 500 persons from Greenville, .Egghoine of the engineer killed in the si?k caused by the negro Clarence Itf?Mew. There was some shooting in !9ptrcets, and the mob moved into the liiHic square. jk'JBio company of slate troops from ju'wrens, S. C, arrived on a special f-MP at 9:45 p. m., and went at onco jitye county nail. The number of sol-ifcifc sol-ifcifc now on guard number 150. jjfjfwby's arrest was affected shortly i 'Br the commission of his crime and to tho scene of the attack, He giimVcaplured by mill operatives who tjoincd in tho pursuit; was taken iiwo tho young woman, who iinme-(tly iinme-(tly identified him, and was then jjjjiBed into the woods. His captors fglK.&bout to lynch him when mounted 'ggfeHw, arrived, wrested him from tho fjgjjiwd, not, however, before tho negro 'jBbeen severely beaten. Tho negro fjIjBtakon to tho jail, and almost im-Wifrtely im-Wifrtely the storming of tho jail be-B be-B 8heriff Nichols swore in a mini-lfof mini-lfof deputies and the militia were gifted out. Fowler, one of tho wound-was wound-was fired at by those within tho JMpBt as he was about to batter down ?5fcite8 of the institution. The mob S'JBr" pa'n cnt-rance by means of fry ladders, but that, too, was in- |
