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Show LYNCHING OF NEGROFEARED SNOW HILL, Md., Oct. 13 (IMD. A squad of Maryland police stood, guard here today over an aged negro while Snow Hill and all ' Worcester county ' seethed with anger over the axemurdec of a Berlin farmer and his wife and two daughters. Orphan Jones, 60, the prisoner was brought here under heavy guard after a mob of enraged farmers had formed in the )mie village of Berlin, shouting, "Lynch him! String him up!" He was arrested ar-rested in Ocean City, Md., yesterday yester-day following discovery of tha bodies of Green Davis, 55, his wife Ivy, 48, and their daughters Elizabeth, Eliza-beth, 15, and Mary Lee, 13. h6 had worked for Davis but had been, discharged. Rings and a pocket-book pocket-book belonging to the family are said to have been found in his possession. pos-session. The entire Davis family was found in bod, their heads crushed with axe blows while they slept, their clothing saturated with kerol sene. Partly burned rags on the floor indicated an effort to destroy the evidence. |