Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-11-23
SCENE OF GREAT
EXCITEMENT
Nobs Formed at Lexington, KY, to
Lynch Negroes.
MILITIA CALLED OUT
Parties Wanted Are Charged With
Having Entered q Saloon aud
Shot at Some White Men,
Killing One.

Lexington. KY. Nov. 23.-At 1O:45
o'clock Monday night the prospect OF
a mob which had formed on the out
skirts OF the city attacking the Jail,
In which Garfield Smith. Ed Taylor
and John Taylor are confined, was so
pronounced that County Judge Book
advised thattthe militia be called out.
Constables and deputy sheriffs to the
number of fifty had already been put
on guard at the Jail, and all the police
have been called from their beds 10
reinforce the night force. The author
tiles decline to give out the informa-
ton that has come to them OF the
mob. but they are in touch with the
movement. and regard the situation as
grave Sunday night the negroes who
are in Jail started out on an expedition
to "kill white dogs" Entering Lui-
CARTS saloon, they opened fire on COM
pany OF white men, who were strangers
TO them. Will Moran was shot dead
as he was crouchlng behind barrel
Others found cover and escaped. though
bullet holes marked their places of ref
uge
At IL o'clock Colonel Roger Williams
of the Second regiment called Company
C into service. The police learned that
the mob was forming In three sections.
one in Gratz park another in Bruce
town and the third outside the city, on
the Bryant station pike. At II o'clock
a platoon of police advanced on a
crowd OF 300 at Gratz park. The men
offered no resistance but dispersed in
all directions. Several who had guns
exposed were captured and locked up.
The police dispersed groups OF men
whenever they collected in the down
town districts.
While a minstrel performance was
in progress at the opera house halt
was called by the management. and IL
was announced that Colonel Williams
asked all militiamen in the audience to
the lobby. This caused excitement,
and by IL o'clock hundreds of people
were flocking to the jail. Police stretch
ed ropes across the street bounding the
Jail and reinforced this with a living
chain of blue coats They received in
formation that two brothers OF the
widow who. with ten children of Moore.
is left unprovided for. were at the head
county The report that the widow had
said she wanted the men lynched incit-
ed many to join the, mob. The main
rendezvous is In the county on the Bry-
ant station pike. Information that II
has planned to burn the square in
which the prisoners lived reached the
police. but they could not spare men
ffom the Jail to guard the street
Following a accommodating trip by
squads OF police at midnight Mayor
Combs and County Judge Bullock left
the jail at l o'clock Tuesday morning.
Both said that they believed danger OF
an attack had passed. They ascribe the
abandonment of the plan of the mob
to the calling out OF the militia and 9TH
er emergency precautions which bluff
ed the leaders. The most determined
band collected at a dismantled stove
foundry. II is said that a noted
Breathltt county feudist was the lead
er. The dispersal OF the Gratz park
mob is believed to have aided the Of
ficials. These men visited the other
camps and spread the news of the as
sembling OF the militia and the strength
OF the guard at the Jail. The brothers
of Mrs. Moore arrived, ana II was said
by those who visited the Bryant sta
attempt for the night. State guards
took possession OF the approaches II
the Jail at / o'clock.