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LIN, MO., OVER ANTI-NEGRODEMONSTRATION.FURTHER RIOTING PROBABLEMany Negroes Are Selling Their Be-longings and Leaving Town andPlfc''Threats of Driving Out Those Who Remain Are Freely Made—Mayor Calls for Five Hundred Men to Protect Life and Property.Joplin, Mo., April 17.—The excitement that ended in a mob lynching Thomas Gilyard, the negro murderer, and the shooting at several negroesand the firing of their homes, is still intense and further bloodshed and damage to property is feared. Many negroes are selling their belongingsand leaving town.It is said another mob will demandthe release of Hickory Bill, a towncharacter, who was placed in jail as amember of the mob, and that they willwreck other negro shanties and driveout what blacks may yet remain. Themayor issued a proclamation callingfor five hundred men to protect lifeand igbpefljLThere are several hundred strangersin the city and a report is being circulated that several hundred othersfrom Peirce City, where a fierce race war occurred over a year ago, will come to Joplin and assist in the extermination of the colored population. The better class of citizens are aiding the police in an effort to prevent further trouble. _THE FIRST OUTBREAK.Murderer Strung Up and Colored Res-idents Driven Out.Joplin, Mo., April 17.—Thomas Gilyard, a tramp negro, aged twenty years, who shot and killed Policeman C. Leslie while resisting arrest in the railroad yards, was taken from jail ly a mob and lynched.Gilyard was captured shortly after the murder and lodged in jail. During the evening a mob of several hundred citizens formed and in spite of protestations by the city attorney and sheriff battered in the wall of the jail and secured the negro. He was taken to the nearest telegraph pole and strungUP* i£lThe negro section of the city was then visited, houses fired and the negro population driven from the tow’n. The police were powTerless and the remonstrances of Mayor Trigg had no effect. !t* '
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Huron Daily Huronite
Huron, South Dakota, US
Fri, Apr 17, 1903
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