The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-22
TROOPS NOW
 GUARD JAIL
 T Fear Of MOb'S Attack at Lexington, Ky.
WANTS BLOOD OF BLACKS
Three Negroes Who Set Out
 to Slay Whites.
Col. Roger Williams, Unable to Com munieate With the Governor, Takes Matters Into His
 own Hands.

Lexington, Ky Nov. 21.--At 10:45 o'clock tonight the prospect of mob which had formed on the outskirts of the city attacking the jail in which Garfield Smith, Ed Taylor and John Taylor were confined was so pronounced that County Judge Bullock advised that the 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 day police have been called from their homes to reinforce the night force. The authorities decline to give out the information 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 "kiIl white dogs" Entering Luigart s saloon they opened fire on a company of white men who were strangers to them. Will Moore was shot dead as he was crouching behind a barrel. Others found cover and escaped, though bullet holes marked their places of refuge. Last night a mob of 300 formed and ad- vanced on the jail after midnight, but were persuaded to disperse when in- formed that the police were aware of their plans.
 Troops Ordered Out.
 At II o'clock tonight Colonel Roger Williams of the End Regiment, called Company C into service. Runners are being sent for soldiers in all parts of the city County Judge Bullock Is at the jail with the Chief of Police and detectives and sheriffs directing pre- cautionary measures.
 The police learned that the mob was forming in three sections, one in Gratz Park. another in Brucetown and the third outside the city on the Bryant station pike. At II o'clock platoon of police advanced on a crowd of S0O at Gratz Park. The men offered no resistance, but dispersed in all dlrec- tions. Several who had guns exposed were captured and locked up. The police dispersed groups of men when ever they collected in the downtown district. s .-s~F-, aa ..
 While a minstrel performance was in progress at the opera house halt was called by the management and 1t was announced that Colonel Williams asked all militiamen in the audience to meet him in the lobby. This caused excite ment and by II o'clock hundreds of people were docking to the jail.
 Police Stretch Ropes.
 Police stretched ropes across the street bounding the jail and reinforced this with living chain of bIuecoats.
 They received information that two brothers of the widow who with ten children of Moore is left unprovided for, were at the head of a mounted mob riding from Bourbon County. The re- port that the widow had said she want ed the men lynched melted many to join the mob. The main rendezvous is in the county on the Bryant station Pike Information that 1t was plan ned to burn the square on which the prisoners lived reached the police. but they could not spare men from the jail 10 guard the street.
 Colonel Williams could not get in communication with the Governor, but called out the local company on his own responsibility.