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Show ' FRENZIED MISSOURI . HOB LYNCHES " 'lIDRbmER AND DRIVES NEGROES AWAY Houses Burned After Colored Col-ored Occupants Are Haled Out; Clever Capture Cap-ture Made by Yoim? Boy. JOPLIN. Mo., April 1$. An infuriated mob took an unknown negro from the city jail and hanged him to a telegraph pole at the corner of Second and "Wall streets, .two blocks from the Jail. The negro was charged with having murdered Policeman Leslie, who was shot dead Tuesday night In the Kansas City railway yard while endeavoring to arrest several negroes suspected of theft Leslie had ordered several negroes who had taken refuge In a box car to surrender, and when they failed to do so he fired several shots at the car. During the shooting a negro slipped from the car, and coming up behind the ' policeman, shot him through the head. Boy's Clever Capture. About 3 o'clock yesterday Lee Fullerton aged 13. located the fugitive in a slaughterhouse just east of Jop-lin. Jop-lin. The negro was armed with a rifle and defied arrest Fullerton slipped Into In-to the structure unobserved and crept up behind the negro. Suddenly he sprang at the unsuspecting fugitive, and before resistance could be made he had the negro on his back with a knife at his throat. The negro then surrendered sur-rendered his rifle, and pointing the weapon at him. Fullerton marched him out of the building. Hob Forms Quickly. With the assistance of another man the negro was brought to Joplin and placed In jail. News of the capture spread rapidly and the jail was speedily surrounded by hundreds of people. There were cries of "lynch him," and City Attorney Decker mounted the jail steps and made a strong plea in behalf of law and order. This served to temporarily stay the mob, but did not appease it. A short time after Decker's speech the mob started in to batter In the side of the Jail. Every effort was made to prevent the entrance of the mob, but without avail, and within fifteen minutes min-utes the infuriated men had gained en- |