| Show HU WM IN THAS NINE tragedy follows the murder of two white men which was lad la d to members of black nace houston texas sunday night nine degroes met death at the hands of a nob mob in the vicinity of hemphill in sabine county and as pa a result a ter lible race war is feared every man in that section having secured arms and an attack is expected at any moment ahe lynching followed the killing of two white men by negroes two weeks ago hugh dean and several other men visited the negro church and school house where a dance was in progress presumably in quest of liquor it be ng the custom of some ot of tl e negroes to sell ghisi ey during the ir lr ogress of such affairs during the evening dean was ki kited te ed and six negroes were held for the I 1 aling at the preliminary examina t on the evidence tended to show that tte tie plot was formed at the dance to kill dean saturday last aaron M johnson a prominent farmer was assassinated N v hile seated at a dining table with his wife and child the bullet being fired through a window for this crime perry price a negro was ar rested and Itis it is stated confessed im I 1 heating robert wright a relative of one of the negroes beld held for dean s murder price declared he was of 5 to kill johnson then followed the forming of a ixos n ob the overpowering of the jailer at hemphill and the lynching of six ne groes held for the murder of dean I 1 bave ive were banged hanged to the same tree v bile another attempted to escape and was shot to death later in the night william mccoy another negro was shot and killed while standing at the gate of the johnson home and next morning the bodies of two more ne groes were found in the creek bottom |
