Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-19 | Page 3 | Missouri Mob Lynches Negro in Court Yard

MISSOURI MOB I LYNCHES C IN COURT C URT YARD YAnD Body Dragged Through Streets and Afterward 4 t Burned Identified as S r Assailant of White Girl CHARLESTON Mo 1 Dec Dee 19 A A I. I r mob of more than men overe over- over j e W s ri i Sheriff B. B B B. B Ja son in rills office here lere last night and Dragged 1 Roosevelt Grigsby year 20 old Jc 1 ld negro who vho had been identified r i f the man Fan who man who attempted to attack at- at o 1 X tack a white girl two hours hours- pre- pre t 3 XI across the courtyard and andred 1 hanged red ged hint him to a tree within fifty teet of the sheriffs sheriff's office L lA A bullet was fired through the I d which was then cut loose from I 4 the tree tied to an automobile and andl in 1 I pr Dragged through the streets of oJ the 4 I. I negro s section section followed followed by bya howl howl t Yng some som members of which I r I vw guns The body t. t eventually ent allY was as hanged to a post I i I In V front of a a grocery store rJ BODY JOb BURNED NS o L B Before ford J-il J th 4 mob departed how c. i le i eve me P bo body dy was Vas was cut Ut down a huge K jip 4 i J.- J. bonfire was as started and the body y AB t soon was was charred embers ISo A None one me attempted to interfere with the lynching and the mob dispersed dis dis- r persed within an hour without fresh r sh I G yet outbreaks At 10 o'clock the sit sit- MS Ua ion was quiet f r The i t The action of the mob was said JH t liY officials to have been the dl- dl I r rest ct outgrowth of intense racial feeling which has hasl existed here since s last ast October October- 31 when rhen the wife of I a prominent land owner of this thIS' county was criminally attacked ed on on onn a n road near her home Forty negroes negroes negroes ne- ne ne- ne groes groes were arrested at the time Jy ii t none was indicted FRIGHTENED fRIGHTENED AWAY A year old girl was return- return y ng g to her home shortly after dark dal l when a negro stepped out of bf f the thel l I Shadows and grappled with her but butI I- I t ft vas Was IWas away by passing motorists mot mo- mo t i The girl gave a minute 1 lion of her assailant and within an hour Grigsby was arrested 1 I the ane le negro was taken to the sher's sherif sher- sher r if s 's office and simultaneously a I Ib b of oi hundred formed several outside out out- side the courthouse v Inside Grigsby was surrounded Sheriff ito Sheriff Jackson and his deputes i ties tes who they asserted obtained j a of his guilt 1 A few moments moments' later he was 1 7 seized by th the mob and and n hanged d. d W kl ST. ST LOUIS LOUISA Dec 19 Governor 19 Governor Arthur S Hyde announced ed ere l-ere today il that he would Imp Immediately offer a a. 1 1 reward ard of f for r the ar arrest est andt and t conviction of th the leaders df the mob i who ho lynched a negro at Charles Charles- u. u ton