Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-23 | Page 2 | Angry Crowd Attempts to Lynch Fiend

if Young Colored Maji Con-I Con-I fesses to Scabbing Young I Girl Thirteen Times. STATE MILITIA MAY BE CALLED OUT Lures Indianapolis Child to Lonely Spot and Throws Body in River. ' INDIANAPOLIS, April 23. A mob : estimated at approximately fhc hum i tired men gathered early tonight at the ' Marion county jail arid supposedly h planned an attempt to lynch William N Ray, colored, who confessed early thh J -morning to the murder of 14-year-old j Martha Huff, on Monday evening. All tho police reserves have been called for guard duty. The firot arrest was made at S:30 ' o'clock when a man giving bin name as John Gilson, sixty-three years old. is said to have attacked one of (ho pa-I pa-I trolman guarding the Jail. Tho police II attempted to disperse the mob, but f tholr numbers steadily increased. I ! Four additional orrosts were mado j shortly afterward while the polico f vjore driving the mob away from tho I? Jail. It waB scattered with difficulty. The police were well organized for their work, while the mob lacked leadership. lead-ership. FeW appeared to be armed and there was no evidence of rope. As the mob broke up in smaller groups within a short radius of tho Jail, plans wore mado for a concerted attack on tho Jail. Governor Goodrich is out of the city, but Harry B. Smith, adjutant general !. of the state of Indiana, is in charge of the situation and is ready to call j. local state militia companies it neces- sary. I; Ray, the negro, is 19 years old, and ; married. Tho crime for which he is "held without bond was committed late Monday night. Ho is said to have mafie a written statement this morning in which ho told how he enticed the girl from her homo with tho promise I of new clothes and took her to a lonely pot on the banks of Eagle Creek, west of tho city. In the alleged confession, ' , ho said she screamed when he attempted attempt-ed to embrace her and that ho stabbed stab-bed her thirteen times in the neck to silenco her. Later ho threw her body i into tho B-wollen waters of the stream. Ray was arrested early today, and I entered a plea of guilty whon arralgn-1 arralgn-1 fid before Judge Pritchard in city W- court, r r