Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
Mob at Mobile Commits Murder
In Attempt to Avenge AS
sault on Girl
ALDERMAN LYONS WOUNDED
Youthful Negro Attacked Ruth soss-
man, Who Identifies Him-Recens
outrases Inflame Citizens, Who At
tempt to Batter Down Jail - Negro
Not There, But Mob Didn't Stop.

Mobile Ala Oct 3.-Seeking to
lynch negro arrested for attacking
white girl, mob attacked the jail last
night. and in the fighting that ensued
ed
Roy Hoyle, a special officer for the
Mobile & Ohio railroad, who assisted
in the defense of the Jail, was killed.
Among the Jail defenders wounded was
Alderman A. S. Lyons.
News of the Negroes crime inflamed
section of the citizens; whose nerves
already were on edge as a result of the
second storm experiences, which START
hand to hand fight occurred at th.
door of the Jail. Hoyle and Lyons We're
shot in the first volley.
Victim Mob Seeks Is Boy.
The negro, Dick Robinson, who is
only II, and still wearing short trous-
ers, yesterday attacked Ruth, the IL
year old daughter of Blount Sossman,
who lives about three miles from hers.
The girl was passing a secluded spot
not far from her home when she was
attacked. Later, she was found lying
| unconscious by the roadside and was
| taken to her home.
Detectives We're placed on the track
| of the negro and within three hours he
was captured. He was taken before
| the Sossman girl, who at once identi-
fled him. Deputy Sheriff Fatch, know
/ ing that the life of the negro would be
taken by a mob if he brought him into
| this city, caused him to be conveyed
to a station several miles up the Mo-
bile & Ohio railroad.
| He was not taken to the Jail at all,
and was at least eight miles from the
city when the mob which determined
to have him approached the building.
Speakers Urge Crowd to Lynch.
There have been several assaults
upon white women within the last few
rage caused intense wrath and ex-
element. AS early as 6 o'clock in the
evening crowds of men commenced to
gather in the downtown streets, and
by $3.50 500 men had formed at the
| intersection of Royal and Dauphin
streets The crowd was harangued by
several speakers, who urged them to
/ take the life Of the negro if he could
be found and in a short time the entire
crowd was ON the march for the Jail.
Sheriff Powers met the leader of the
! mob and informed them that the man
they were seeking was not in the Jail
and had never been brought there. He
offered to let anybody whom he per-
| sonally knew pass thru the Jail to
satisfy the crowd of the truth of his
| statement.
About forty men walked thru the
corridors, some of them returning and
assuring the members of the mob that
the man was not there.
Force Door With Telephone Pole.
While several men, including Hoyle,
and Lyons, were still in the Jail, a
portion of the crowd led by TALL raw
boned man. whose name is not known,
seized a telephone pole which had been
blown down in the recent storm and
dashed it against the closed part of a
double door, one-half of which was
open. The door fell with crash, and
almost instantly a shot came from a
A revolver in the hands Of a man stand
ing in the gate. Others followed, and
Hoyle and Lyons fell.