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NEW AFFIDAVITS INTOLYNCHING TESTIMONY(Continued from page 1)prisoners the jailer took the keys from a huge safe implanted in the wall which he had to open with a key he wore on his person. The jailer told the coroner that the keys were on his dresser in his bed room when the mob awakened him and he put them on his belt before going down to face the mob.Why he did not put the keys in the safe and throw away the safe key when he saw the mob has not been explained. The sheriff appears unable to explain satisfactorily a number of incidents after he arrived at the jail in response to the jailer’s telephone call for help. He says he found the mob outside between the courthouse and the main door of the jail. He says he argued with them to disperse and they turned and walked away.Mob free to act.The sheriff says he addressed the mob as he stood directly beside the stairs leading to the main floor of the jail. No explanation has been made why when he turned and walked away toward the courthouse, he felt it necessary for him to enter the jail, which was safe against intrusion except by artifice. Nor has he related why upon deciding to enter the jail he left the stairs leading directly to the main entrance and walked fifty feet around the corner of the jail to the jailer’s door. This maneuver forced him to turn his back to the mob.He says he found the door to the jailer’s residence open, formed no suspicion that mob members might be inside the house, and tells of arriving at the steel door leading fromthe residence of the jailer to the jail and calling the jailer away from the main jail door to admit him. It was then, he says, the mob swarmed overhim from the rooms behind him,darkened when the electric light wires was cut earlier in the nLght eight miles from town.The final and perhaps the most extraordinary part of both these stories by the sheriff, which remains unexplained, is how the mob got into the jail without injury. Robinson says he was seized from behind just as the jailer opened the large steel door to admit him. How the mob swarmed past him in an instant and seized the jailer, who was inside the jail, before the sheriff got a chance even to fire his pistol or shut the door remains an unsolved mystery.^ Latest developments in the Aiken lynching case, as reported in the New York World, include the removal from the Aiken jail of 6 prisoners, 2 white and 4 colored, and the obtaining from them of affidavits establishing the identity of the officers who took Bertha Lowman from her cell and delivered her to the mob of lynchers. The World is continuing daily to publish detailed reports of the Aiken situation on its first page, and reports coming by mail to the N. A. A. C. P. show the entire State and the entire South becoming aroused over the South Carolina atrocity.
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The Saint Paul Echo
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sat, Nov 20, 1926
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