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Show NO ARRESTS MADE IN LYNCHING' CASE Police Aro Blamed for Not Protecting Prisoner After Ample Warning Had Been Given. COATESVLLLE, Pa., Aug. 15.De-Bpite 15.De-Bpite rumors of ouibrnaks and possible attacks by nogrocs, peaco reignB in Coatesville and Burrounding country, following the burning on Sunday nigUt of tho negro who killed Edgar Rice, special policeman. 8tate police ore guarding the town. Last night a rumor spread through Coatesville that during tho night a band of uegroos bent on vengeance would march on the Bice home, and burn tho body of tho dead policeman. Tbo authorities placed special ppllcomen on guard at tho Rice home. Within the houso were the widow, her five children chil-dren and Bovoral relatives. No arrests in connection with the burning of Walltor havo been made. lt is said that only about twenty-fivo men took an activo part in the work. At least one of tho borough policemen is said to be implicated in the lynching. lynch-ing. Chief of Police Umstead had been warned, it is paid, in amplo timo of the gathering of tho mob to lynch Walker, but he did not raise a hand to prevent pre-vent it. |