Show OKLAHOMA too PS BEAT BACK MOB I 1 ATTEMPT MADE TO LYNCH TWO NEGROES AT MUSKOGEE PROVES FAILURE jail door Is battered down by attacking force but guards stand firm and beat back infuriated mob muskogee Musko gec Okla oklahoma lionia while a mob of several hundred men surrounded tho the county jail here sunday night threatening to lynch two negroes accused of slaying a patrolman armed negroes kept silent guard in the underbrush of a vacant lot across tite me street with tho the announced intention of opening fire to rescue the accused men should the mob obtain custody of them company F of the oklahoma national guard which was called out when the mob assumed serious proportions and which repulsed two assaults on the jail waited with fixed bayonets and rifles loaded with ball cartri cartridges dg es tor for another attack one of the repulsed attacks resulted in the battering down of the jail door but the men in the forefront of the mob carrying a piece of railroad rail as a battering ram were driven back before they could get inside to add to the complicated situation it was rumored that a posse of cherokee indians indiana had organized actable at table quah and started for muskogee 25 miles away determined to avenge the slaying of their fellow tribesman sam neal tho the patrolman whom the two negroes win green and mathis foreman are accused of killing white while resisting arrest while the mob still waited before th the jail near midnight the two negroes were dressed in the uniforms of militiamen and hurried out a rear door under heavy guard they were taken safely around the mob to the outskirts of the city where automobiles were waiting to carry them to another city presumably tulsa later when it was announced to the mob that green the negro accused of killing neal had been taken away the mob dispersed quietly |