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Show FOUR NEGROES inirasj Grand Jury to Be Summoned Sum-moned to Investigate Lynching. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 30. Notice No-tice was given today by Judge Leon McCord, of the circuit court that a special spe-cial session of the grand jury would be summoned Thursday to investigate the lynchings of three negroes here yesterday yes-terday and the wounding of a fourth today. Governor Thomas E. Kilby declared special state agents would be employed to secure evidence for the grand jury and that the "full weight of the state would be placed, behind the investigation. investiga-tion. ' ' No further trouble was experienced tonight by the white and negro races. Negro leaders and prominent white citizens cit-izens conferred today on methods to prevent a repetition of yesterday's outbreak, out-break, which had its origin in the lynching of two negroes, charged with an assault upon white women. Tlus was followed by the killing of a policeman, police-man, the lynching of his slayer, and by the wounding of a fourth negro. Negro Slain in Hospital. John Temple, negro, who last night shot and fatally wounded Policeman John Barbare and who was wounded by the officer, was shot to death in a hospital early today by a small band of white men. He was the liird negro to die by lynch law within a period of twelve hours. Miles Phifer and Hubert Hub-ert Crosky, the latter a discharged soldier, sol-dier, having been shot to death by a mob five miles from the eity yesterday. Still another negro, Bird Astor, who was with Temple when Barbare was shot, was being sought by a posse and it was believed his capture would result re-sult in more mob violence. There was no connection between the lynching of Phifer and Crosky and tho killing of Temple. The first named two, charged with crimes against white women, wero taken from three deputy sheriffs by a mob of about twenty-five men five miles from 1 lie eity. The Spanish method of execution, "ley de fuge," was used. The negroes were told to run for their lives and as they started they were shot down. Mob Discovers Ruse. Last night, Policeman Barbare arrested ar-rested Temple, Astor and a negress on a charge of disorderly conduct. Temple shot the officer, but not until he himself him-self had been wounded. In the meantime mean-time Astor fled. The police, to prevent a possible lynching, announced that Temple had been killed. Later it became known that this was only a ruse and that Temple had beeu taken to a hospital. A smail band or- ganized and not more than a half dozen j men entered the hospital, overpowered j (Continued on page 5, Colurnu 3,) Fill NEGHDES IB ITliS (Continued From Pa aro One'.) the guards and shot the negro to death as he lay iu Led. NEGRO CAPTURED BY POSSE AND LODGED IN JAIL MERCHAXTVILLB, X. J., Sept. 30. James Whiting, the negro who is alleged to have assaulted a Mrs. Mary Ixitsey of this place, and for whom a posse had been scouring the countryside since yesterday yes-terday afternoon, was captured tonight along Rancocas creek, near Mount Holiy. He was locked up in the Mount Holly jail. The negro was captured by a detective', who rushed him to jail in an automobile. Other members of the posse were not informed in-formed that the fugitive had been taken into custody until he had been locked up. Although threats against the negro were made by some of the men. most of them ieft for their homes shortly after learning learn-ing of the capture, and offielaia declared they did not expect any violence. Parker .said Whiting was so nearly exhausted ex-hausted that he did not offer any resistance resist-ance to arrest. He "was unarmed. Except to plead with the detective to protect him from ''the mob,'' the negro made no statement. Mrs. Lotsey, wife ,of a shipbuilder and mother of five children, is in a Camden hospital in a serious condition. Merchantville was quiet tonight and the authorities expect no violence. . |