Show NEGROES SAVED FROM MOB OB INI IN ILLINOIS C I T I Y Guard Called Out to Assist In Bringing Community to Order MOUND tOU CITY Ill III July 23 23 following a series of narrow u- u escapes es escapes capes from mobs which twice their live lives three ne rou rested today behind the sat ails walla sali of the Illinois state penitentiary at Menard Ill har har- harro har- har harrowed I ro rowed cd by theli tbell experience the llie three roes negroes tao lao of hom claim re reSidence in Mem Mem- Mem Memphis plus Tenn Term and one ono In Cairo Ill ili all attested early arly here bero as us suspects In with the slaying of Dais Daisy Wilson pretty 18 18 old ear car lila ilia Ridge girl girt were asere ere taken to Menard as all a last lat measure by I J Hudson of ot county after atter the jail at Mounds Ill III and later latr at Mound Citi ashore they had been held wr were Surrounded by threatening mobs moba U D OUT As d s result of o these demon demon- demonstrations demonstrations demonstrations Governor Len Ln Small of Illinois ordered the Immediate mobilization of company K K IllinoIs Infantry to 10 proceed here and aid county authorities In re- re restoring re restoring storing oi 01 older tier dr The negroes denied the crime crimeA crimeA A A mob 1101 formed In Villa Ridge and tile the sheriff fearing tearing trouble took the tho negroes to the Mounds jail where another crowd quICKlY gathered and threats were ere d to lynch them When Vlen as aft imminent II if l F I Moreland a Lu hu KuI I Klux ottel d un tin elo- elo do- do luent clo-luent quent pi ples tor for the negroes lives ed b bi a durIng th the crowd stood rp respect rc pe t- t tully fully fully l with aith bared heads With the crowd tern tem tem temporarily the tho n negroes lIrou were quickly brought edIn here The cro crowd crossd d tollo ed In automobiles JL 1 TO Wilson Ilson who ho UD to late after atter- afternoon afternoon noon had been unable to identify his hla assailants a declared declara one of the tho negroes who gave o the name of Iko Ike Brown of ot Memphis had done the shooting At thu this assertion the thC th crowd threatened to attack the tho jail In which the three acre ero hold held and several l hols wera fired Into the air rearing Fearing a 8 x morn more determined ned as- as assault sault an-sault sault Hudson under CO cover of darkness led the from tho rear of or his him hl home adjacent to Ih the jail jall and escaped by automo automobile bile Accompanied b bs SO veral n-veral eral ot of ohis othi hi his l |