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IVNCttiM, 41PILOI POINT TEIRE4IENEDlt; IIOWII AFTK1I TWO NKGROKN l\THE HANM OF THE OFFIt imom Here laiun to Aubrey t?* rape the Crowd—Crowd Fol* i lowed and l*ri*oner* WereBrought Hen*. jJim and Roscoe Curtin, two young; P*olt Point negroe*, are in jail hero after a night that must have been terrifying to them and was highly exciting to the county officers who had them in charge. The co-;t-plaiut against the negroes is on! disturbance on the docket, but theofi.eer* believe that but for tbrir prompt removal from Pilot Point certainly trouble and possibly a lynching would have resulted.Two negroes in the yard of Ot's Phinney's home while Mr. Phinney was away alarmed the small children in the house and their scream at* traded a crowd whose irc *as arous ed by the belief that brutal treatment of the children had been th* intent of the negroes' viait. Theywere unable to describe the negro n,but on suspicion Constable Underwood and Marbal McNabb of Pilot Point arrested the two Gurtons.Shortly afterward a crowd of me.t formed with the avowed intention, so Sheriff Orr was told over the telephone, of lynching the negroes. The Sneriff promptly called Mr. Underwood and told him to take the negroes away from Pilot Point. He took them to Aubrey and turned them over to Constable Wilson. An ho .t later a responsible citizen of PilotPoint called the Sheriff and stated that the crowd had learned the negroes wore in Aubrey and wag theft preparing to go tbertlt; after them, A number of men and boys from Pllo* Point later arrived at Aubrey, but Constable Wilson, acting on telephonic advice from Sheriff Orr, had * *ken the negroes away. jHe took them across Elm and kept! them until Tuesday morning when he turned them overTo Deputy Shcr iff Taylor, who brought the badly-frightened negroes hero to jail. They protested their innocence.Word from Pilot Point Wednesdu afternoon was that the excitementhad quieted down and no farther trouble was apprehendel.
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Record and Chronicle
Denton, Texas, US
Tue, Mar 08, 1910
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