Show LYNCHING BEE GREATLY FEARED North Carolina Mob Would Avenge Death of Lyerly Family I I I f ii JAIL GUARDED GUARDED BY POSSE tl i 1 c Go Governor Glenn ki Will fl Call Cal Special lal Sl'S 4 f- f Ion of or Court to o Try TI the lie Fhe Negro Murderers f Charlotte N. N C. C Jul July Jui 15 Al AI Al Although thou though h the fl tl negroes who vIrn are aro acL acI accused acl ac ac- ac- ac l I L of oC the thc murder and attempted i Incineration of Isaac Lyerly and his t. t wife and ami two children at al Barbers Barber's station sta sta- js tion Saturday morning safely fely r lodged behind the thc lars bars in lii the Meck- Meck county jail here toda today It Is k feared the they will yet el be lynched Disquieting Dis Dis- t. t x t r quieting rumors arc in circulation that thal n a mob of Rowan Howan county citizens Is J forming anti and will vIlI come como to 10 Charlotte r f and take talce the negroes at an any cost and antI t burn them at the take stake The Jail is I guarded h by a posse JOSSO and an effort is t. t being made lo to have troops ordered to lo i participate in guarding the tho prisoners H I Tho The accused were ere ero slipped out of the Rowan county Jail after midnight hl l. l Saturday anti and brought ht here Just Int in lii t time to lo avert a lynching A mob gathered at Salisbury early in rn the night flight and shortly holtI after the prisoners prison prison- ers had been removed made an nn at attack attack at- at tack on the jail Some of or the members mem mem- 4 bers were wore masked mashed but the great greal majority maJority ma ma- made no effort to conceal their Identity Headed by a well known j J farmer they marched to 10 the jail and 1 demanded that tho the prisoners be turned turned turn turn- I ed over to them j Addressed l tile the Mob lob Mayor Dowden and former Con gressman pressman Kluttz who were vere at th the jail addressed the lie mob and told then them the lie prisoners wore no longer there They The asked them to retrain from nn violence whatsoever and ed t. t their thell word wOId that the tho prisoners would be given a speedy trial The mot moli listened until Kluttz was partly through with his hiM argument and anel then at a signal from rom the leader stormed the Jail The mayor maor and former congressman con con- gressman wc were veto ro rushed and a a. large railroad tie lie ul used cd In shattering tho the Jail door dOOt The Tho mob surged cd Into the Jail and seal died nil all tho the cells colls but aa ui there hero were C. C no flO prisoners with with- IJ t oti i I I lo l t h m f r Ic h 1 1 el might yet Yot sol get j. j th t Tt fe f Reeling of or the l citizens ni 1 ly Is Is' i r. r I hitler blUI against 0 lle ne negroes oes i i Ute murders s surpassed cd In wanton anlon rut an anything In ln in tho the annals of I I the th criminal of ot the f V funeral of lUo aws held f this this ri a at tt ta IS Junction and was vas attended by y more more- than 2000 I ri- ri two Surviving daughters r 1 ot of the farally were welt able ablo lo to bo he present pres pros t. t v en ent at the funeral but hut lh their 11 condl- condl p ii t Is pitiable Je and physicians are arc In Inconstant constant attendance 1 I It II Is fear feared 1 they may may- lose lose their reason as the thc result of their terrible S S exT experience j One Negro Confesses I T Ono o of th the l negroes under at arrest rest has confessed that thal not nol only did they I js S intend to destroy lestroy all evidence of their crime by hy burning the tho house and Mr Ir and lind Mrs L ellya bodies and those o of S th the two young youn children but hul that they theyS had also planned to assault the two S elder cider girls gills and afterward burn hurn them S 1 1 J at the stal stake c the feeling is so hitter bitter that it will take all of tho thA efforts of tr the th authorities to 10 prevent a lynching Governor Glenn will call a I chat i session e o of the Rowan Howan county r court to mc mee meet t t next week to 1 try I the ami auth It Il Is the law lawand murderers po S an and anil order el element mII t will endeavor to J. J 5 t.- t. have justice move so n rapidly In this J L t ca case c t that at there will be no cause caus e for Cor or S mob violence |