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Show SPECIAL GRAND JURY WILL PROBE DEATH OF NEGROES PARIS, Texas. July 10. A special grand jury will be convened here to-1 da) to Inquire fully into the burning to death by a mob Tuesdaj night of Herman and Irving Arthur, negroes.' District Judge 13. H. Derton. who or-1 dered the special grand Jury term, said 1 public sentiment demands punishment, of the mob ring leaders Citizens at a mass meeting today adopted a resolution recommending a "rltfld invcstlation be made of tho recent re-cent outrage committed against tho laws of our state and the peace and dignity of our country." The two negroes confessed to having hav-ing shot and killed a white farmer and' his son noar Paris, and fell into the hands of a mob after tho county Jail i had been stormed. |