Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-06 | Page 5 | Negroes Guarded from Frenzied Mob

NEGROES GUARDED FROM FRENZIED MOB LEBANON Tenn Sept 6 UP UP- UP Sixty national guardsmen arrived here early today today from from Nashville after aCter a mob of 1500 men stormed the county jail jall demanding three negroes who allegedly shot and killed two deputies Labor day It Il was the second visit of the mob within 12 hours Several hundred came am Mo Monday day night and demanded the keys from irom J. J E. E Fields brother brother- in law in-law law of or Sheriff E. E W W. Climer Fields did not know where the keys were He denied that he knew where the negro prisoners were Sheriff Sheri Climer had hidden the negroes negroes ne ne- ne- ne groes under tinder the flooring of ot the Jail jall and moved them to another jail Mon day night after hearing talk of or lynch In ing Major Knox Alexander in charge of the troop detachment here said today that the situation was quiet and under control