Show ACCUSED MURDERER GUARDED BY TROOPS Louisiana Mob Foiled in Attempts Attempts At- At tempts to Take Suspect SHREVEPORT Lay La April 18 UP I National guardsmen maintained a ai close guard around the county jail and courthouse Wednesday following two futile efforts by a mob to storm the building and take Fred Lockhart 38 accused of oC murder To forestall another mob gathering gather gather- ing Sheriff Sherif Hughes declared It If Lockhart is taken out of my jail It ft will be over my dead body bod At the height ot of l last st nights night's turmoil turmoil tur- tur moil more than persons swarmed around the courthouse Sheriff s deputies armed with machine guns and rifles guarded the doors and the small elevator elc to the jail on the seventh sev sev- lenth and eighth floors The mob began gathering oon alter after police announced that Lockhart had confessed that he stabbed Mae Mac Griffin Grif- Grif fin 15 Sunday and assaulted her The girls girl's bod body was found in the woods Lockhart an itinerant ped was 35 arrested Monda Monday on sus- sus |