The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-11-24
.N0D THREATENS
TO DO VIOLENCE
Gathers to Lynch Negroes Who
Started Campaign Against
Whites.
ME JAIL is SURROUNDED
Men Rave Come From Miles Around
Lexington to Engage in the Race
War, But Authorities Are
Vet in Control.

i Lexington, Ky. Nov. 23.-The pros
sssect of 4 mob which had been formed
Han the outskirts of the city attacking
sMe Jail in which Ed Taylor, Garfield
aSnith and John Taylor are confined
sTas so pronounced that County Judge
Bullock advised the militia to be called
30lt. Constables and deputy sheriffs to
3te number of fifty had already been
ayut on guard at the jail. and all the
atay police mad BEEN called from their
3hds TO reinforce the night force.
4 The authorities declined to give out
3;he information that had come to them
las to the plans of the mob, but they
were in touch with the situation, and
Considered it crave.
sunday night the three negroes who
are in jail started out on an expedition
10 kin white dogs Entering Luigart's
saloon they opened fire on q
Of white men who were strangers TO
them. William Moore was shot dead
as he was crouching behind a barrel.
others found more secure covers and
escaped, though bullet holes marked
their places of refuge.
1 A NOT Of 800 formed and went to the
apiI, Dut was persuaded to dispense
n Eaen Informed hat the police were
/ saaIe of its plans.
Colonel Roger Williams Of the Second
aRglincnt, called Company c into ser
vice. Runners were sent for the sol
iers in all parts of the city. County
Judge Bullock was at the Jail with the
chief Of police and detectives and sller-
his were directing precautionary meas
mes. 1t was first learned that the
snob was forming in three sections, one
3t Gratis Park, another in BruCetoWn'
3GDt a third outside the city, ON the.
3pp,r,A -, 4 S} a tir,, ,1ityD A -. - .-.l.l-'
3adVanced on 4 crowd at Gratis Park.
The men offered no resistance, but dis
aaIersed in all directions.
q Several who had guns exposed were
captured n locked up. The police dis
ApIsCd groups of men whenever they
collected in the downtown district.
a While a minstrel performance was in
progress at the opera house. q halt was
AcaIled and it was announced that Coll
Amel Williams requested all nilitialnen
Aa the audience to meet him in the lob
Aby, This caused excitement, and hun
q irpds Of people were fiocking to the
Mnil. The police stretched ropes across
The streets surrounding the Jail and
AniuIorced this with a living chain of
A~bueroatS.
u They received information that two
"a brOthers Of Moore'S widow, who with
"a ten children is left u~nprovided for, We're
"a at the head of a mounted mob riding
3ir0m Bourbon county, The report that
"a the widow had said she wanted the
men Iynched melted many to- join the
% mob. The main rendezvous is ON the
81 Bryant station pike.
"a 4 plan to burn The square on which
The prisoners lived reached the police.
IA hut they could not spare men from the
SA Hail 10 guard the streets. Colonel Will
MkamS could not get in communication
sAHiIh the governor, but called out the
ssMA'6cal committee on his " response
blity.
Ca Following a reconnaissance by squads
EAOf police at midnight Mayor Combs and
ENCountY Judge Bullock left the jail. Both
said they believed the danger Of al
%mmediate attack had passed. They
account for the abandonment of the
Eapan Of the mol by the calling out OF
sAtbe militia and other emergency pre-
Naautiona which blutfed the leaders.
EA The state guards have possession OF
ssathe approaches to the jail.