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Show Officers Fear Lynching of Men Who Murdered Policeman. WILMINGTON IS QUIET , j Colored People Warned To Keep Off City Streets. WILMINGTON, Delaware, No 14. : I Fearing enraged citizens might at-j at-j tempt to lynch three negroes charged j with murdering one policeman and. I probably mortally wounding another in Wilmington pcdie. last night rushed the prisoners to Philadelphia The negroes Lemuel, James and) John Price, brothers, are being held' In Central police station. Wilmington is quiet today. Police. have been instructed to prevent the assemblage of crowds Rifles and a machine gun are at police headquar i ; ters. The sale of firearms In the city has j been stopped and negroes have L "ti i warned to keep off the streets. The murdered policeman was Thorn : as L. Zebley Harry F. Pierce, the i 1 wounded policeman, was shot three times and is not expected to live The shooting occurred when the two I patrolmen went to the Price home toi Investigate the stealing last week of' scores of guns from a gun store The1 guni had been pawned in the citw |