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Show in b hI BLOOD FLOWS WHEN 1 CROWD ATTEMPTS TO I LWKKLA1 I Two Women Among Those Wt Who Fall Before Rifles of ! Troops in Kentucky- H SOLDIERS RUSHED TO fl ! SCENE OiF DISTURBANCE H j Angry Throngs Looting Stores to Obtain Arms Great 'Ex- citement Follows jH LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 9. Four , jH persons were killed and 15 injured . jH here today when a mob intent upon lynching William Lockett, a negro, who confessed to the murder o ten--year-old Geneva Hardman, charged the courthouse during Loc-kett's trial and was fired upon bypolice and state troops. i Two women were reported to be ! among those shot by Um state tropps. lumejreiallFwitlv tTsordiers-hSTd oil " rthe' mob1 while the- e.uthorities man-aged man-aged to slip the negro away to a place of safety. ! Many Mutterings. Great excitement was caused ly the shooting and there were mutterings of IH furiher trouble. While the mob, ringleaders o which carried A rope, was attempting to get into the courthouse to get Lockett, a jury found him guilty of first degree murder and a minute or two later tho negro was sentenced to die in the elec- trie chair March 11. I In addition lo the four persons kill- jH 'ed, nineteen persons were wounded jH when the troops fired into the mob, the .authorities ascertained later. Troops Are Called. Four hundred troops from Camp" Taylor, Ky., have bee"n ordered to Lex-Ing'ton Lex-Ing'ton to prevent any further trouble jH and arc now en route here, officials jH announced. Tho additional troops jjJ were requested as it was feared that the 300 militiamen could not handle JM the situation. f Soldiers and policemen continued on ! guard near the courthouse following ' the shooting. Officials feared that an-other an-other attempt" might be made to lynch' ill Lockett should the crowd discover his whereabouts. 11 Trouble was feared by the author!-ties author!-ties as soon as Lockett was captured and confessed to the r-csault and mur-dei- of the little Hardman girl last Tuesday. ' Streets Guarded. I fH Early today -hundreds of farmers x frpm the surrounding country came to Lexington to attend the trial. The state troops closely guarded the streets when the negro was taken from a train and rushed lo the courthouse. The prisoner was brought hcVc early this morning from Frankfort on a spe-cial spe-cial train. jH Heavy wires and ropes had- been jH stretched along the streets to prevent 'the crowds from charging the pris-oivu- with his military escort. jH Tho mob is now looting pawnshops. Sixty-two revolvers were taken at one . place. An attack on the troops is I feared by the authorities. The little Hardman girl was found murdered by schoolmates a short dis-tance dis-tance from her home last Tuesday morning, just a few minutes aficr she had t:n'tcd to school. The girl's body had been dr?gged into a corn field and her head had been crushed with a stone. The body had been partly covered up with corn stalks. 1 Within a few minutes posses were formed by residents of the neighbor-hood neighbor-hood and a search was instituted. Lockett was suspected and finally was found late that night at a friend's home about six miles from the scene. He was taken into custody by a Lex ington physician and his friend, lo whom he denied having murdered ti Later, police announced, the negro tM confessed to the murder, adding that he "didn't know" why he had commit-ted commit-ted the crime. |