Deseret Evening News | 1907-05-22 | Page 7 | Georgia Mob Shoots down Four Negroes

GEORGIA MOB SHOOTS DOWN FOUR NEGROES Claxton On Oa May I Four negroes shut shot down don b by a mob one olle white man luau slain and i v n other persons Injured Is the result t sull of or an attempt to capture last night attempted a I u LL who wh assault upon a II U widow near lit Managua DI AD John Hare white farmer Hum Padgett and daughter daugh tel aged It 10 1 years etus wife and ln son on Fifteen persons curly eaily today toda surround surrounded ed ad the tho house ot tuE Sam Sam Iun Padgett a II negro hom they the suspected of harboring il It ItJI t negro JI who had criminally assaulted hs Moore and nd demanded to be ho al allowed allowe lowed lowe to the thc housu Permission u liS given but Jut when within 30 3 feut of or thu the house those Inside o the building opened Use on tho the poise po sc Instantly kill killing killIng ing lo John lure Hare I and wounding Hurlow Pearson James Jamos Daniel and Dr 01 J 1 U I 1 Kennedy The posse then thell returned the tho tire lire killing Padgett and und one onu if ot Mi huts daughters used 10 mid and wounding two oilier girls aged agell t U Ii mid 13 11 antI and two of or 1 sons aged liS cd 20 2 2 Tho pusa thou then retired for Cor reinforce reinforcements ments The news spread sproull rapidly and by It III clock armed men wore were on un tho thud sC ne and ami started slatted In iii pursuit of or ortho thu tho negroes who had escaped On Oui the tho way Valy the who captured u Li suspect overtaken by 75 j men who ho took the UIl lie prisoners I them The rhe woman was told to inn and as ni she Rho did so was As with bullets her son on being belu shot to pieces where hero he ite stood 1