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Show ARMED NEGROES FEAtfANQTHER RAGE OUTBREAK Much Agitated After Double Lynching by North Carolina Caro-lina Mob WARRENTON. N. C, Jan. 24 Nesjroefl here began to show signs of I agliatton today following" the lyndh-j lyndh-j ing of two members of their race last j night. j Five negroes who appeared to he the leaders have been arrested. All i manner ot firearms are said to h.i'-bet h.i'-bet ii found on them Including rlflea, ! shotguna and pistols. Around" some a;uns red bandanna handkerchiefs are- ; said to have been tied which local of- I fleers believe to he the badge of .some secret order. A Jury was impanelled for an in-J in-J queBl'over the negroes lynched, i t BE r OUTBftE IE A company of the homo guard, or-dpeed or-dpeed out last night by Governor Mor-( j rlson too late to preve nt tho public lynching, still was 0n duty. ; The lynching was the culmination I , of several days of ill-feeling between I negroes tfnd whites of Norllna, which reached a climax early Sunday In a 'pitched gun battle there In which five white men ami three negroes I wero wounded MOB WoltKs ,n ICKXiY NORE1NA N. C.. Jan. 24. Alfred Williams and Plummer BuUook, two netrroes, were taken from the Warren county Jail at Warrenton by n masked mnli early this morning and .shot to death. FOLLOWED RACE RIOT, No effort was made lo molext the I 1 other eleven negroes who wero con- I ! fined in the iail In connection with the race riot clash here Sum'ay. Bullock v.us said to be the mati-gator mati-gator and Williams one of the leaders of the negroes in the clash. About 150 men were in the mob that entered the jail 'I he two negroes vere taken Into the woods about !t mile, outside uf town and tin tr bod!' riddled with I bullets. SOLDIERS ON '.I ARD. Efforts to communicate, with War-1 ronton by telephone were fruitless, but persons coming from the scenu said the town was quiet and that a military mili-tary company ordered out by Gov- I ernor Morrison had taken charge. It was siild only the Jailer. John Green, a negro, was on duty when the mob ! surrounded the Jail. |