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Show OKLAHOMA IROOPS BEATJBAGK IB ATTEMPT MADE TO LYNCH y NEGROE8 AT MU8K0GE PROVE8 FAILUREyT Jail Door Is Battered Doy Attack- Ing Force, But Ov ,and Firm and Bf Back Infurlat100' Muskogee, of"oma. Whllo a mob of several lMf"rei1 "lcn surrounded tho county' 'oro Sunday night thrcatonli0 lynch two negroes accused ac-cused (paying a patrolman, 200 armed jJ'Kroos kept silent guard in tho undpjush of a vacant lot across mo str with tho announced intention jrjspening flro to rcBcuo tho accused 6n should tho mob obtain custody of them. Company P of tho Oklnhoma national nation-al guard, which waB called out when tho mob assumed serious proportions, and which repulsed two assaults on tho Jail, waited with fixed bayonets nnd rifles loadod with ball cartridges for another attack. Ono of tho repulsed attacks resulted In tho battering down ot tho Jail door, but tho mon in tho forefront of tho mob, carrying n p)eco of railroad rull as a battering ram, wero driven back boforo thoy could get Inside. To add to tho complicated situation, It was rumored that a posso of Cho-rokco Cho-rokco Indlons had organized at Tnhlo-quah Tnhlo-quah nnd started for Muskogee 25 miles away, determined to avongo tho slaying of their follow tribesman, Sam Neal, tho patrolman whom tho two no-grooa, no-grooa, Wm. Green and Mathls Foreman, Fore-man, nro accused ot killing whllo resisting re-sisting arrest. Whllo tho mob still watted boforo tho Jail near midnlcht, tho two no-grooo no-grooo wero dressed In tho uniforms of militiamen and hurried 'c-ut a rear door. Under heavy guard, thoy wore taken safely around tho inob to tho outskirts of tho city, whero automo-bllos automo-bllos wero wnlttng to carry them to another city, presumably Tulsa. Later, when It was announced to tho mob that Green, tho negro accusod of killing Neal, had bocn taken away, |