Show USE MACHINE GUNS ort KENTUCKY MOB ATTEMPT TO LYNCH NEGRO MURDERED OF CHILD RESULTS IN BATTLE IN STREETS Hundreds of Farmers Decide to Take Tak Law In Their Hands B But t are Prevented From Hanging Negro by State Troops Lexington Kj Five IYe Five were killed kille L and fifteen wounded when state troops troop fired upon a mob hero here Monday As a result of the encounter between th the troops and the members of the mob martial law prevails Rioting began Tuesday morning morning mornin when a mob bent on lynching William Lockett a negro who confessed to th the murder last week of a year ten d L girl Geneva Hardman was fired upon with rifles and machine guns by state stat ml militiamen as the mob was storming the Fayette county courthouse to ge get the during the time trial The attempt t tv te lynch Lockett was wa made Just after atter he had confessed to the theL I theL murder and as the Jury found him hilt l guilty of murder in the first degree He was sentenced to die In the electric I chair March 11 Hundreds of ot farmers from the surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding country arrived to attend the i trial and sullenly watched the prisoner as he be was marched from the train to tc the courthouse between lines of state troopers When the trial opened the courtroom was crowded to capacity Everyone was searched for firearms I before being admitted to the court court- house Hundreds gathered In the street in front of the courthouse The cry Lets get him from a brawny farmer on the outskirts of the am m crowd turned the crowd into a mob which began surging toward the build ing lag Soldiers and police dropped back bach into close formation and trained their guns on the mob which never hesi hesI- toted Adjutant General Deweese in command command com com- mand of the militiamen shouted a final warning to the crowd and then fired a revolver Into the air It was the signal signal signal sig sig- nal for the troops to fire Soldiers and police pollee fired point blank Into the crowd and a near-by near machine gun rattled The mob which had surged halt half halfway way up the steps pressed presed back and broke Quick action on the the part of the aut authorities got the negro out of the building |