Show TROOPS CALLED TO HANDLE MOB ILLINOIS GOVERNOR ORDERS OUT SOLDIERS TO HELP PRESERVE ORDER Sheriff Prevents Prevent Lynching of b Rushing Them to 1 r 1 As AI Sus Sue Suspects pests Mound City Ill Following Following a series of narrow narrow- escapes from rom mobs which twice threatened their lives three negroes rested behind the safe walls of the Illinois state penitentiary at Menard Ill harrowed by their ex ex- IThe v r The three negroes two of whom claim residence in Memphis Tenn Term and one in Carlo Cario Ill crested here ha as suspects in connection n with the slaying of ol Daisy Wilson pretty 18 year old Villa Ridge girl was taken to Menard as a last resort measure by Sheriff I. I J. J Hudson of ol Pulaski county after the jail at Mounds Ill 11 and later at Mound City where they had been held were surrounded by threatening mobs As a result of the demonstrations Governor Len Small of Illinois ordered orI ordered or or- dered the immediate mobilization of I company K Illinois infantry to proceed here and aid county authorities authorities authorities auth auth- in restoring order The negroes denied the crime A Amob Amob Amob mob formed in Villa Ridge and the sheriff fearing trouble took thene the ne negroes roes to the Mounds jail where I another crowd quickly gathered and threats were voiced to lynch them When trouble was imminent II H. H F. F Moreland a Ku Klux Klan organizer zer offered an eloquent plea for the negroes' negroes lives concluded by a 11 prayer pray pray- er during which the crowd stood respectfully with bared bowed heads With the crowd quieted temporarily temporarily temporarily th the negroes were quickly brought here The crowd followed in automobiles Wilson father of the murdered girl who was badly beaten in an attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted robbery of ol his store and who had been unable to identify hi his assailants declared one one the negroes who gave the name as Ike Brown of Memphis had done the shooting At this assertion the crowd threatened threatened threat threat- ened to attack the jail in which the three negroes were held and several severs shots were fired into the air Fearing a more determined assault assa Sheriff Hudson un under er cover of or aar oark- oark ness led the negroes from the re rear r of his home adjacent to the jail and escaped es- es es escaped S. S by auto accompanied by several several sev sev- eral of his deputies |