| Show OKLAHOMA TROOPS BEAT BACK MOB ATTEMPT MADE TO LYNCH TWO NEGROES AT MUSKOGEE PROVES FAILURE Jail Door Is Is' Battered Down by AttackIng AttackIng AttackS Attack- Attack S Ing Force Bt But Guards Stand Firm and Beat Beat Back BackS Infuriated Mob S Muskogee 1 Oklahoma While a mob of several hundred men surrounded the count county Jail hero Sunday night threatening to lynch two negroes accused accused accused ac ac- ac- ac of at slaying a patrolman armed negroes kept silent guard In the underbrush of or a vacant lot across tue street with the he announced Intention of or opening fire to rescue the accused men should the mob obtain custody of or them Com Company pan F P of or the Ule Oklahoma national nation nation- al guard which was called out when tho the mob assumed serious proportions and which rep repulsed two assaults on the jail jall waited with fixed bayonets and rifles loaded with bail ball cartridges for tor another attack One of or the repulsed attacks resulted in the battering down of at the Jail an door but the men in the tile forefront of the mob carrying a piece of railroad rail raU as a battering ram were driven back before they could get inside To add dd to the complicated situation it t was rumored that a a. posse of or Cherokee Cherokee Che Indians had organized at Tahlequah Tahlequah Tahle- Tahle quah and started f for r Muskogee 25 miles mUes away determined to avenge the II slaying of or their f fellow tribesman Sam Neal the patrolman whom the two negroes negroes negroes ne ne- ne- ne groes Wm Green and Mathis Foreman Foreman Foreman Fore Fore- man are accused of or killing while resisting resisting resisting re re- re- re arrest I While the mob still waited before the jail jall near midnight the two negroes negroes negroes ne ne- ne- ne groes were dressed in the uniforms of militiamen and hurried hurriel out a rear door Under heavy guard they were taken aken safely around the mob to the outskirts of the city where automobiles automo automo- bites biles were waiting to carry them to another city presumably Tulsa Later when it was announced to the mob that Green the negro accused of f killing Neal had been taken away th the mob dispersed quietly |
