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Show OKLAHOMA TROOPS BEAT JMCK iOB ATTEMPT MADE TO LYNCH TWO NEGROES AT MUSKOGEE PROVES FAILURE. Jail Door is Battered Down by Attacking Attack-ing Force, But Guards Stand Firm and Beat Back Infuriated Mob. Muskogee, Oklahoma. While a mob of several hundred men surrounded the county jail here Sunday night threatening to lynch two negroes accused ac-cused of slaying a patrolman, 200 armed negroes kept silent guard in the underbrush of a vacant lot across the street, with the announced intention of opening fire to rescue the accused men should the mob obtain custody of them. Company F of the Oklaboma national nation-al 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 cartridges for another attack. One of the repulsed attacks resulted in the battering down of the iail drmr. 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 Che-rokee Indians had organized at Tahle-quah Tahle-quah and started for Muskogee, 25 miles away, determined to avenge the slaying of their fellow tribesman, Sam Neal, the patrolman whom the two negroes, ne-groes, Wm. Green and Mathis Foreman, Fore-man, are accused of killing while re sisting arrest. While the mob still waited before the jail near midnight, the two negroes ne-groes 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 automo-biles were waiting to carry them to jnother city, presumably Tulsa. Later, when it was announced to the m6b that Green, the negro accused of killing Neal, had been taken away, I the mob dispersed quietly. |