| Show NEGRO IS BY 11 IP cP l t f JI ill 17 T Tr M r f Determined ned Men en Overpower Over Overpower Overpower power Deputies and Leave With Murderer Mobile Ala Jan 23 So quietly did they ther go about their wo w oik ok that the tho usual serenity of Mobile past th the midnight hour was but slightly dis disturbed disturbed disturbed when at nt I 15 this morning a handful of determined men took a negro from the county count jail and lynch lynched ed him almost In the heart of the residence district The victim Douglas Duglas Roberson a n mulatto powerful of build buill I aud and for Cor years ears regarded as a desperate negro who ho on Thursday shot and killed Dep Deputy Deput uty ut it Sheriff Philip Eatch Fatch and wounded another officer was wa led from Crom his hit cell coll collIn In the county jail to 10 the place of lynching so quietly that residents along the path of the Mobs march were undisturbed Tho The mob had intended it is thought taking lacking Roberson Robel ou to the scene of or his hia crime but on account of his cries in spite of an effort to gag him his cap captors captors captors tors hanged him to a tree on ou the southeast corner cornel of SL SU Emmanuel and Church streets just one block re Ire removed removed moved moed from Mobiles s most prominent residence thoroughfare According to one authority two men walked into the jail and covered Dep Deputy uty ut Sheriffs Gulls Gillis and Krause with re revolvers and commanded them then to throw up their hands accompanying their order with a demand mand that they open the door leading to the cells The rite dep deputies titles powerless and caught unawares obeyed without resistance Probably twenty more In hr the meantime had hail gone upstairs leaving the two men mon to I guard the deputies Later two of these came back down and demanded the keys to lo cell which were given ghen them Gillis and nod Krause were then Ihen left alone and ordered not to leave their seats scats or use the telephone tinder pen penalty alty alt of death The mob securing tho the thoman theman man quietly left the Jail jaB and started with their captive toward the tho scene of his crime The negro nt gro was not hoard heard to lo utter a word when his ids captors started away aWa with him However before they the had gone more than three blocks he in some way wa extricated d the gag from his mouth Lute Like a Hash flash three revolver shots disturbed tho quiet of the night and In a moment a largo large Inch rove rope was thrown across a limb Jim and Roberson was hanged hangell A feature In h connection with the thelyn lynching lyn is that in spite of the fact that It was as freely whispered d about the city cit last night that an attempt would woul be b made to lynch finch l Roberson early this morning after the he street cars carli had stopped running and when hen few people p would be stirring such remarks were received with a smile and no one believed be he believed heJI JI d they lIlo had any an foundation How However However ever as one ne ocl ck approached run ru Ill rumors mors mars became bt came very frequent but no one thought the prisoner could bo be secured At t 2 15 tho the coroner arrived I Ion on the scene selecting a jury jilt which adjourned to the police station after viewing the body hodY and the following verdict was rendered rend l bd At an Inquisition taken and held this 23 3 day dar of January Januar upon the body hod of Douglas Roberson we wo the jury jun find that ho came to his death by hv be being beIng ing hg hanged by parties unknown to t this jurT Jun After Arter hanging about one hour the body was cut down by the Ute police and aid taken to the guard house whore it will be turned over to 10 the city later laler inthe In InI inthe I the ho day Roberson Rob was clad in his under underclothing underclothing underclothing clothing and his hi hands were tied lied While trying tr to 10 arrest Roberson Thursday on a it charge of assault and battery hatter Sheriff Patch Fatch and Deputy Sheriff William McCarren were fC fired fil d upon by the negro at close range the tho first bullet striking Fatch In tho rho stomach from which ho died lied Thursday night Ic was but slightly wounded in the left foot The negro was captured after aCtor two wounded officers had chased him for several blocks firing as they ther ran Tho The capture was made by two other officers and when arrested it was found that thal the negro had hail been wounded three times b by bullets ballets from the revolvers of Fatch Falch and McCarren |
