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A PLUCKY JAILER1.Stood Off a Mob of Fifty Bent ©nLynching.• Shawneetowu, 13]., Sept 2.—A mob of 50 masked men went to the jail here early Tuesday morning and demanded that Jailer Galloway turn over to them John Griffin, colored, who was under arrest for an attempted assault on Mrs. .Joseph Hobbs, a white woman, near her home. Griffin had been frightened away by the woman's screams, and he had been arrested a short while afterward.When the mob demanded that Jailer Galloway turn the Negro over to them, Galloway armed himself, and, after reasoning with the men from the jail door, he warned them that any effort to force the jail door would be at their peril. The mob, in spite of the jailer's words, made several ineffectual attempts to break down the jail doors, finally dispersing about daylight.Many of the colored people are taking sides with Griffin, though some of them have, in fear of a race riot, left the town.No trouble has followed the visit of the mob to the jail Tuesday morning, but preparations are making to take the Negro to Canai for safekeeping.Indianola, Neb., Sept 2.—Four masked men before daylight Tuesday morning broke into the county jail here and attempted to blow’ off the locks of the steel cage occupied by Charles M. McMillen, slayer of Lee Jones, awaiting trial on a charge of murder. They succeeded in getting two of the locks off. but the noise aroused the jailer and the men fled. The identity of the men is unknown, and whether their purpose was to harm or liberate McMillen is equally am ystery.
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Paris Bourbon News
Paris, Kentucky, US
Fri, Sep 04, 1903
Page 2
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