Show FOURTH KILLING AT SPRINGFIELD Negro Shot by White Who Claims He Was Attacked on the Street MILITIA ARRESTS LEADERS Sheriff Afraid to Jill Jail Rioters Is ISI I I for fur t iii Whole inde lule Affair ifa I r Springfield Mo Io April 1 G. Spring Spring- field leid added another r victim to H lire Its listor list or If f negro killings shortly after 10 clock chock tonight While escorting a 0 young woman to 10 toler her ler ier home In a remote part of or the city Leslie Peters 16 1 years ears old was ac- ac noosed b by two to ne who offered In- In tilting remarks He lie drew his eI r I. and anti shot one of or the negroes to eath mid and put tho ho other to Whon hion found the right hand hanel of or tho dead ne negro ro grasped a er revolver Young Youn P Peters tel's anti and hl bitt sweetheart Miss Ollie Ohio Fielders were tere returning to tolie the lie Jailers hatters homo home In the east part of or till the city from an on entertainment Al Almost Almost Al- Al Almost most In front of Miss lIss Fielders Fielders' home the couple were accosted ted by tV two negroes ne who ordered them to stop What hat do you ou want demanded thiS the young oung mane man e We c will trill show sho you replied one o of If the negroes drawing a rc o revolver I 1 Our o Ill in of S Negi oes Ies Killed You Young ng Peters an I I tJ ii his hlf is shooting Iron and several shots were exchanged Ralph Burns Hums ono one of tho the negroes rocs was killed hilled but his companion compan compan- ion Identity Is not l known no n made II his hi e occupy escape cup Peters went vent immediately to the HIli ut after 1 th the killing killing- ami jred jed Ii I cJ ht Tho rho at 11 est were t b H v that Peters P was lo was 17 IQ itt d l i but but p li H nh h I 1 s- s c il them that Hint the lit trilling nl Miss MI R Fielders n asserts erts that the negroes tired w t he lii 1 t shot hol and Unit that leters I acted mer merely I In self defense c. c I tn Shet-tn Afraid to tn Arrest Arret Orders Issued 1 d Ii to General distance tele- tele Clark C the tho long hong by hy Governor Folk rather chan changed eel the aspect of or affairs this af af- af Word Yord hail had reached the gOrnor governor governor gov gov- that lint th the local authorities s knew the lea leaders ers of or Saturday nights night's riot but feared to arrest them bent th m. m Instructions Instructions Instructions were tere then S by 11 the governor gover gover- Clark to make nor nOI directing General Ge the arrests place the tho men nun In Lu jail and guard them with troops until action action acton ac ac- ac- ac tion ton had been taken by IJ tomorrows tomorrow's grand 1 jury I Arrest t In accordance with these theae instructions instructions Charles Cannefax who Is said to have ve led the mob Oat Ont Hall Oney Oncy Calvey J. 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Brake and ond Dake Dalie Crano were taken Into custody Brake anti and huh Hall are sun still In Jail while the others regained d their liberty by y furnishing a n abond abond bond of or each Warrants for twenty others are arc said to be in the hands of or the tire officers officers of ot- and other arrests arresto will be made located as soon as the men can be County Prosecutor Patterson Is emphatic emphatic em em- In declaring that every overy man mun against l whom the slightest evidence can cnn be secured will be prosecuted to the full Cull extent of ot the law but hut for all nil that it is hi R believed that It will be Impossible Impossible Im Im- possible to secure a u Jury In the count county county coun coun- ty t to convict the suspected man inca no matter what evidence I Is introduced against them Makes Fourth l Killing Tonight's killing kUHns which Is the tire fourth since Saturdays Saturday's race war began be be- gun gan has hns plunged the tire city into a fever of or excitement and cries of run el e every d d- d negro out of the city are hearon heard hear on every ery hand Owing to the lateness of or the hour when the killing took place few people people peo peo- pie were on the streets those thoe who ha had not gone gone- to their homes quickly sent the word along that another another another an an- other white woman had hod been Insulted Insult Insult- ed and excitement is ts at nt fever heat heal I The force of soldiers on the tilt public public pub pub- lic Ito square and downtown streets has hasI I been swelled by a hundred deputy sheriffs who were sworn In itt yesterday r and crowds are arc not allowed to conI con con- I Si Sheriff ten ii Is Il I Illumed I lii mell I 1 As Asvos was vos the case Saturday the sheriff Is being beinS' blam blamed d for tonight tonight's shoot- shoot Ing ng It seems to bo be the tire prevailing opinion that tonight's tonight Indignities would not have been offered Peters and Miss Fielders had it tt not been forthe for forthe the presence of troops In the city Tho The sheriff Is being censured for asking for tor the soldiers The negroes have been especially aggressive during the tho day relying for protection upon the presence nee of the five fi companies of militia The This negroes must go seems to tobe tobe I be bl th the prevailing opinion of or ever every one olle oneat oneat at this hour |