Show FAMILY MURDERED WHILE THEY SLEPT Crime Clime of Negroes in Southern Town Fiendish Beyond Belief HOUSE WAS SET ON FIRE FIREMan 1 Man taim amid Wife Ife l and amid Three Ie Small Chil Children dren Beaten to Death uth With X l Axes Talk Tall of or Lynching V Barbours Barbour's Junction N. N C. C Jul July 14 14 Four negroes George Evans E Jack Jaek ham Mitchell Graham and his wife vie are under arrest on omi suspicion of being Implicated In iii time the murder last night of or I Isaac Lyerly Lerl his und three e children nt ot their homo here Three e posses pO are still Jie V hr l Ji In In O d r ft iff J I nt ty party om escaping escaping th Ih I cl case le the crime cannot be fixed flied upon upon up- up on En the parties under arrest The murders constitute con ono or of the ho crimes ever eyer committed in imi the state and anti the thu people are aro thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- aroused and determined to run rundown Lyerly L rl and amid down tho the guilty pcr persona the members of or the family were killed with a club while they slept and und the lie heads of or nil all five YO victims were pounded Into a pulp An effort err rt was Wa va made to burn the tIme house In which the bodies I lay Jay a Tho The fire awakened two older daughters who ho slept upstairs and when of ot their I the they discovered the condition parents and other children the thc alarm I Iwas was quickly given loll 11 Made Late tonight John Graham made malle a aull full ull confession Implicating all of the tho negroes under tinder arrest Ills father Mitchell Graham was the chief con con- John said the tho murders had hall been committed with two axes and told where the weapons were hidden lie He said it was the Intention o of the murderers mur mur- after killing killins the time parents parent and children to capture the lit two girls who lio slept upstairs an and burn them alive e They were frightened off ocr before their fiendish iced deed was as entirely executed The rime feeling eeling among the citizens is In Intense Intense intense In- In tense and lynching is confidently expected ex ex- Late Lute tonight the prisoners were taken taken tak tak- en to Charlotte on ems a late train In III older to prevent nl a lynching |