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Guards Placed Around County Jail to Protect Men Charged With Killing Conductor.RIOT FEARED WHEN MAN IS^MOBBED NEAR HOLTONJudge Announces Call for Special Session of Grand Jury to Examine Lynching.(Associated Hegro Press.) Macon, Ga., Aug. 11—“Lynch LawMust Go.” They are still at it inGeorgia, which seems destined to sinkto much lower levels in the scale ofcivilization.An extra heavy guard was readyhere to be thrown around the Bibbcounty jail to protect three men heldin connection with the murder severalmonths ago of A. L. Allgood, a street jcar conductor.The guard w'as assembled earlywhen the police received word that jseveral hundred persons had gather-ed in Central City park and wereplanning an attack on the countyjail. Later reports said, however,;that the crowd had dispersed withoutmaking any sort of demonstration.FEAR RACE RIOTThe precautionary steps follow-1 ed a day of excitement in Macon and uneasiness on the part of the author- j ities, who expressed fears of a serious race clash growing out of the lynching at Holton, near here, of John Glover, charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Walter C. Byrd. Glover was taken from an Atlanta train at Griffin and shot to death.WILL PROBE LYNCHING Judge W. E. H. Searcy of the Monroe circuit announced that he would called a special session of the grand jury at Forsyth for the fourth Monday in August to investigate the lynching of Glover.
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The Northwestern Bulletin
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sat, Aug 12, 1922
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