Show w M 1 MOB ACTION Negro Assailant of Two Old Ladies in ill Danger of Lynching JEFFERSON 0 O. Aug 19 A A mob surrounds the jail here today threatening threatening threatening threat threat- ening to lynch John B B. Grooms a negro negro ne ne- ne- ne gro who last night assaulted two old ladles ladies H Harriet and Sabrina Hopkins Several hysterical women In the crowd are inciting the men to take the law Into their own hands Grooms Is said to have chewed an ear off oft one of ot his victims and torn the flesh from the arm of or the other with his teeth The women Identified Grooms as their a assailant and his hat an and part of or his clothing were found In the Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- kins field |