Show T Georgia Geora Mob Lynches Four Negroes Two Men Wives Shot Down Following Knifing MONROE Ga July 26 P UP A band of t armed white men waylaid a a. white ta farmer mer and four Negroes on a secluded northeast Georgia road late Xh Thursday Sheriff E. E S. S Gordon said Friday and while holding the white man at gunpoint shot the Negroes to death Coroner W W. V. V T. T Brown after an examination of at the bodies esti esti- mateO mated that 60 shots had been fired tired into the bodies of at the four tour Negroes The hands of the two Negro men had been tied behind their backs Their wives were the other victims One of the Negroes Roger Malcalm Malcolm Malcolm Mal Mal- colm calm 27 27 the sheriff said had just been released from tram jail under bond on charges of at stabbing his employer B Bar Barney a r n e y Hester a farmer WASHINGTON J July u I y 28 20 INS INS Attorney Attorney General Tom Clark Friday ordered a full In Inquiry Inquiry In- In by the justice department into tho the killing of four tour Negroes Thursday in northeast Georgia The sheriff identified the other Negroes as Malcolms Malcolm's wife and George Dorsey and his wife The Negroes riding In an automobile automobile auto auto- mobile with Loy Harrison a farmer farm farm- er were en route from Monroe to Harrisons Harrison's farm in adjoining Oconee county when they were waylaid at a bridge over O the Apalache river the sheriff sheri said Bald Identity U Unknown Harrison at a coroners coroner's Inquest Thursday night the sheriff sherif said testified that he could not Identify any member of at the band which waylaid him The jury returned a verdict of death at the thc hands of unknown parties The slayings the sheriff said sald occurred about eight miles mUes east st ot Monr e the cou ty seat eat ton on c county which is about about 10 O miles northeast of Atlanta H Here re is the the story or the sl slayings as told by bythe the e sheriff after questioning questioning ques ques- Harrison Dorsey and his wife worked on Harrisons Harrison's f farm rm in Oconee county Malcolm had worked for Hester and Harrison after Malcolms Malcolm's re release release re re- le lease se from jail jaU had gone to Monroe Monroe Monroe Mon Mon- roe to get gett t him and h his hs s wi wife e and take tak them them back to jobs on an the Harrison farm Harrison driving the car with the Negroes I in It approached a wooden bri bridge ge over oyer the foot wide river which divides Oconee and Walton counties A band of 20 20 to 25 m men armed with shotguns shotguns shot shot- guns pistols and rifles stood In Inthe the road and order ordered d him to halt Halted at Bridge Harrison stopped the car at the entrance to the bride and the armed men ordered the two Negro men from the car and proceeded down a side road Harrison and I Ithe the two Negro women were held at the automobile Then Harrison heard one of at the themen themen themen men in the armed band remark that one of the Negro women had recognized him and several of the themen themen men came back and took the women from the car Harrison then heard shots After the shots the mob dispersed and Harrison went back two miles mUes toward Monroe and called Sheriff Gordon from a country store The sheriff said he went to the scene immediately and found the riddled bullet bodies in the bushes along the side road about 40 feet teet from where Harrisons Harrison's car had been par parked ed at the entrance to the bridge The sheriff sherif quoted Harrison as assaying assa assaying sa saying ing none of the men wore a mask Sheriff Sh riff Gordon said that without without with with- out identification of any any member of the fhe he armed band band- he had gone as asfar astar f tar far r as he could with his gation He said he had called Inthe Inthe in inthe the Georgia bureau of ot division of at the state palice police po po- lice and that the federal bureau of investigation had called him |