Millard County Chronicle | 1915-12-23 | Page 12 | Oklahoma Troops Beat Back Mob

OKLAHOMA TROOPS mm mob ATTEMPT MADE TO LYNCH TWO NEGROES AT MUSKOGEE PROVES FAILURE. Jail Door is Battered Down by Attacking Attack-ing Force, But Guards Stand Firm and Beat Back Infuriated Mob. Muskogee, Oklahoma. While a mob of several hundred men surrounded the county jail here Sunday night threatening to lynch two negroes accused ac-cused of slaying a patrolman, 200 armed negroes kept silent guard in the underbrush of a vacant lot across tile street, with the announced intention of opening fire to rescue the accused men should the mob obtain custody of them. Company F of the Oklahoma national nation-al guard, which was called out when 1 the mob assumed serious proportions, ' and which repulsed two assaults on ( the jail, waited with fixed bayonets ' and rifles loaded with ball cartridges for another attack. ( One of the repulsed attacks resulted ' :n the battering down of the jail door, Dut the men in the forefront of the nob, carrying a piece of railroad rail J is a battering ram, were driven back jefore they could get inside. otoHicopctt j nl was rumored uiat a puse of )kee Indians had organized at Tahle- F uah and started for Muskogee, 25 liles away, determined to avenge the laying of their fellow tribesman, Sam leal, the patrolman whom the two ne- 0 roes, Wm. Green and Mathis Fore- sl lan, are accused of killing while re- n isting arrest. While the mob still waited before he jail near midnight, the two ne-roes ne-roes were dressed in the uniforms of ailitiamen and hurried out a rear n oor. Under heavy guard, they were a aken safely around the mob to the p mtskirts of the city, where automo- t liles were waiting to carry them to t, mother city, presumably Tulsa. Later, when it was announced to he mob that Green, the negro accused f killing Neal, had been taken away, he mob dispersed quietly.