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Show NEGROES LYNCHED . BY FRENZIED IB Race Riot in Capital of Illinois Re suits in Four Deaths and Injury of Many Participants. h . ... Despite the Presence of Mllltla, the Horries of Negroes Are Burned to the Ground and Colored Men Subjected to Torture. Springfield, 111. Two whlto men wero killed nnd ono negro was lynched, lynch-ed, moro than half a hundred persons wero Injured and two scoro of houses, mostly occupied by negroes wore I burned Friday night as tho result of an attempt by a mob to lynch a ncgrc who had assautlcd a whlto woman. Aftor a night of rfot, arson and slaughter, tho stato troops, called out by tho govornor, succeeded early Saturday Sat-urday In restoring a somblanco of or dor. Ono thousand militiamen, including in-cluding thrco companies from this city and companies from Illoomlngton, Decatur, De-catur, Perkln and Pontine, wore set patrolling tho streets. Dcsplto tho presenco of tho troops nnothor victim was added to tho list on Saturday night, when William Don-Igan, Don-Igan, an agod nogro, was killed. Donl-gan Donl-gan was n cobblor and respected as a slmplo and inoffensivo cltlzon. Ills shop was within two blocks of. tho statu house. In tho absenco of a patrol, pa-trol, tho mob set fire to tho shop and tho vcnorable negro was compelled by tho smoko to run Into tho street. His appcaranco was greeted by a shower of Btoncs and bricks, nnd as ho staggered stag-gered under tho fuslllado I16 was scln cd and his throat cut. A ropo was then run through Uio wound and the victim bound to a trco. Thoro ho wns found later, unconscious and dying; Tho rioting wns proclpltatcd by an assault committed by a negro upon Mrs. Mabel Hallam, wlfo of a street car "conductor. Whllo tho woman slept, nlono In hor homo on a populous rcsldcnco street, nwnltlng tho return of her husband, tho man brolto into tho house, dragged hor into tho rear yard and nssaultod hor. Before noon Qcorgo Richardson, a young negro, was arrested by tho sheriff's force, charged with tho crlmo. Tho victim partially identified tho prisoner. Crowds quickly gathered about tho Jail, but IUchardson wns spirited away to nioomlngtori for safe keeping. keep-ing. Ilalkcd of their proy, tho morabors of tho mob wreaked vengcanco upon u restaurant kecpor who had assisted In spiriting away tho suspected negro, by complotely wrecking his restaurant restaur-ant and burning his automobile Lowla Johnson, a whlto boy, ied 17, was ikillcd during tho rioting at tho res-tauranL res-tauranL After burning many houses in tho nogro qunrtor tho mob. which bocamo 'moro and moro despc.ato as tho night passed, finally gratliled its thirst for blood when Charloy Hunter, a negro, Vaa lynched rt tho corner of Twelfth and Madison streots, right In tho hearx of tho district called "Dad Lands." Troops arrived at tho scone too lato to provont tho lynching. Some; of O10 mombers ot tho mob declaro tnat the hegro lynched had shot two white me.n, tieorgo Richnrdson, tho ' nogro charged with tho assault which lod to tho 'fearful rioting, denies his guilt and declares ho can provo an alibi. With tho arrival hero on Sunday ot tho Second nnd Sovcnth infantry regimens. regi-mens. I. N. O., nnd two squadrons ol the First cavalry, all from Chicago, tho ontlro national guard of Illinois, with tho exception of tho Sixth infantry in-fantry and tho Eighth Infantry, colored, col-ored, is on duty in tho rlot-riddon dls trlcts. In all 4,200 guardsmen nro In tho city. Sunday passed without any violent demonstrations, nnd although large crowds thronged tho streots, they wero mostly curiosity seokors, nnd wero easily handled by tho soldiers. |