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Show stopped running and when few people would bo stirring, such remarks were received with a smile and no one believed be-lieved they had any foundation. However, How-ever, as one o'clock approached, rumors ru-mors became very frequent, but no onf 1 thought the" prisoner could be secured. I At 2:15 o'clock the coroner arrived on the scene, selecting a Jury, which adjourned to the police station after viewing the body, and tho following verdict was rendered: "At an inquisition taken and held, this 23 day of January, upon the body of Douglas Roberson, we, the jury, find that he came to his death by being be-ing hanged by parties unknown to this jury." After hanging about one hour, tho body was cut down by the police and taken to the guard house, where It will be turned over to the city later in the day. Roberson was clad in his underclothing under-clothing and his hands were tied. While trying to arrest Roberson Thursday on a charge of assault and battery, Reputy Sheriff Fatch and Deputy Sheriff William McCarren were flrpd upon by the negro at close range, the first bullet striking Fatch in the stomach, from which he died Thursday night. McCarren was but ' slightly "wounded In the left foot. The" negro was captured after two wounded officers had chased him for several blocks, firing as they ran. The capture was made by two otfipr officers and when arrested, it was found that the negro had been wounded three times by bullets from the revolvers of Fatch and McCarren. 'NEGRO IS HANGED BY MOB Determined Men Overpower Over-power Deputies and Leave With Murderer I Mobile. Ala., Jan. 23. So quietly ili they go about their work that the usual serenity of Mobile, past the midnight hour, was but slightly disturbed, dis-turbed, when, at 1:15 this morning a handful of determined men took a negro from the county jail and lynched lynch-ed him almost In the heart of the city's residence district- Tho victim. Douglas Roberson. a mulatto, powerful of build, and for years regarded as a desperate negro, who on Thursday shot and killed Deputy Dep-uty Sheriff Philip Fatch and wounded another officer, was led from his cell in the county jail to the place of lynching, so "quietly that residents along the path of tho Mob's march were undisturbed The mob had Intended, it is thought, taking Roberson to tho scene of his crime, but on account of his cries, in spite of an effort to gag him, his captors cap-tors hanged him to a tree on the southeast corner of St. Emmanuel and Church streets, just ono block removed re-moved from Mobile's moat prominent residence thoroughfare. According to ono authority, two men walked Into the jail and covered Deputy Dep-uty Sheriffs Glllls and Krause with revolvers re-volvers and commanded them to throw up their. hands, accompanying their order with a demand that they open the door leading to the cells. The deputies, dep-uties, powerless and caught unawares, obeyed without resistance. Probably twenty more In the meantime had gone upstairs, leaving the to men to guard the deputies. Later two of these came back down and demanded the keys to Roberson's cell, which were given them. Gillis and Krause wore then left alone and ordered not to leave their seats or use tho telephone, under penalty pen-alty of death The rooh securing the man, quietly left the jail and started with their captive toward tho 'scene of hia crime. The negro was not heard to utter a word when his captors started away with him. However, before they had gone more than three blocks, he in . some way extricated the gag from his mouth. Like a flash three revolver ' shots disturbed the quiet of the night and in a moment a large three-quarter-inch rope was thrown across a limb and Roberson was hanged. 1 A feature in connection with the ' lynching is that in spite of the fact that It was freely whispered about the city last night that an attempt would be made to lynch Roberson early this I morning, after the street cars had J |