Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-12-27 | Page 3 | Lynch Mob Foiled by Oklahoma Troopers

Sr LYNCH MOB FOILED BY OKLAHOMA 5 TROOPERS Muskogee J Jail Doors Are Battered Down p wn by Men in ila a an au Attempt to Reach Two Negro Suspects PATROLMAN IS SLAIN Blacks of City Are in Arms Armsto to Protect Prote t the the- Pair Who Are Are Alleged to Have J. J 1 Been Cause of Death rr MUSKOGEE Okla Dec 27 With With the safe removal from the county jail here of two ne negroes roes arrested in connection connection tion lion with the murder of a policeman policeman policeman po po- I Muskogee returned t J normal life and there was nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing on the surface today to show that t at the jail had b ben boen en besieged d for five hours last night by bya a mob snob of white men threatening to lynch the negroes while across the street armed negroes announced announced announced an an- th they y were ready to open fire on the whites the minute they attempted violence on the pris- pris Two assaults assault on the jail b by the militiamen militia militia- militiamen white men were repulsed by men with fixed bayonets although S at one onetime time the attackers succeeded in battering e down the jail sail door with witha a a. railroad rail rait While a third assault assault assault as as- the two sault was being agitated were dressed in militia uniforms uniforms uni uniforms uni- uni negroes covered by military overcoats forms collars upturned and anda with high rushed from the sail jail is in a a. taxicab With the negroes safely removed the leaders of the mob were allowed allowed al- al all dis- dis lowed to search the sail jail then persed This eased the racial tensIon ten ten- sign sIon which at one time threatened a pitched battle battIe the white men de de- Glaring daring the they would charge the ne nei unless the latter disarmed and went goes Kroes home In preparation for trouble trouble trou- trou ble ule a local hardware dea dealer er opened t his liis store and supplied all available firearms to citizens who wished means of prot protecting themselves The two negroes William Green believed to and MathiS 1 Foreman are have havo been taken to McAlester to the state penitentiary The They are accused of ot having slain Sam Neal a patrolman patrolman patrol patrolman man when Neal attempted to arrest arrestS S them on suspicion ion of burglary