Show I I j ANG ANGRY Y MOB H HANGS NEG NEGRO O BU BURNS NS BODY Slayer Taken From Hospital Cot am and Lynched in Courthouse se Yard m U By Associated PlUs Irei t i 5 l LJ BR Id p t l- l co nty officiaLs planned d i l to confer canter today on what action Would be taken in connection with the lynching lynching lynch lynch- ing last ast night of Mack Williams 35 year old Negro Y who wc was taken from froma a a. a hospital cot and hanged in the courthouse yard a few hours after he had slain his employer Daniel J J. J Elliott States State's Attorney Levin Levi C. C Bailey absent when the mob of 2000 completed com com- corn com its grisly job by burning Williams Williams' Williams Williams' Wil Wil- liams' liams body at the edge of t the e Negro district said he would do nothing until he had conferred with Sheriff Sheri G. G Murray Phillips Governor Albert C. C Ritchie Cut ut short a visit to New NewYork York and started for Baltimore to conduct an gation The lynch spirit flamed a short time before Jhc he hc actual attempt when it was learned Williams had not died as first reported from wounds in inflicted inflicted In- In by himself himsel and Daniel J J. J El Elliott El- El liott Jr son of the the man man he had sIn slain in RAISE LYNCH CRY CItY Men standing on a street corner discussing the thc killing of Elliott 67 year year old old lumber dealer and and box manufacturer raised a cry of Lets lynch and it was taken up by bt others as as' the march to the e hospital hospital hos hos- pital started I reached the building building build build- When the mob 1 ing a delegation of six repulsed d' d dat at atthe atthe atthe the front b by Police Pollee Chief Chic N. N H H. L Holland Holland Holland Hol Hol- HolI I land and Deputy Sheriff John Parks I entered a a side door and dragged the Negro from his cot coL He was taken laken by bythe bythe bythe the mob t to the courthouse yard and anden anden I Ien en route a I rope was produced Williams was hanged from a tree and left swinging for 20 minutes before before be be- fore the body was cut down and Sheriff Sheriff Sheriff Sher Sher- iff Phillips Phillip's s sought it He was brushed aside and it was taken laken I Ito to a vacant lot and saturated with gasoline burned 5 1 |