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POLICE SPIRIT MURDERER AWAY, TO PREVENT MAD MOB FROM GETTING HIM.yAN ALL-NIGHT HUNT”| Lima, O., May 23— Fearing that an - attempt would be made to lynch John it VV. Beam, who shot and killed Mrs. d Kstella M. A. Diltz at her home, and i- who attempted suicide when facing n1 capture, the colored attorney was s spirited from the hospital after dusk and placed in the county jail, f Rumors reached Sheriff Van Gunten a tonight that a mob was forming in the j woman's old home at Waynesfleld.platted by her grandfather, an hon-r'ored pioneer, and an attempt would _ ibe made to gain possession of the ne-i gro.Acting on the rumor and the stillI mutterings among the whites, Sheriff Van Gunten has a heavy guard about ; the strong box. The authorities fear trouble, and every precaution is being 1 j taken.The action of the Colored People's • Protective association at noon today In prevailing upon Dr. U. 3. Beam, broth-1 or of John Beam, to leave the city, has j possibly saved his life, as feeling ran ' high against him. He closed his of-! flee, gave over the keys to President 1 Dennis Day, of the association, and ' promised never to return, leaving for Kentucky.John W. Beam had acted as attorneymi. _ i _ * u____1. it,
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Canton Morning News
Canton, Ohio, US
Wed, May 26, 1909
Page 8
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