The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-03
Community Aroused By Assault Committed During Afternoon
 Negro Was Spirited Away
THREE VISITS ARE MADE ID
 JAIL BY THE ANGRY MOB
Boy Hoyle Was Shot Dead While Tn the Jail Corridor and Alderman Sidney Lyons Was Wounded
 In One of His Hands.

Mobile, October 2.-Roy Hoyle, a speelai officer of the Mobile and ohio Raliroau' and one of the most widely known ana best liked men in this vicinity, was la'ahy shot. and Alderman Sidney Lyons chair- man of the City Council of Mobile, was siqh+lv wounded in the hand tonight dur ,ng q fight at. the county jail between deputy sheriffs and a crowd of men de- termned to capture Dick Robinson, young negro The mob is still hunting the negro, ana will lynch him if possible.
 Nearo Attacks Young Girl.
 The negro is only IT years of age ana was said to be wearing his first pair or long trousers. today attacked Ruth the 19-vear-old daughter of Blount Sossamah' who lives about three miles from here' The girl was passing a secluded spot not far from her home, when she was at lacked Later she was found lying un- conscious bv the road side, and was taken to her home Detectives were placed on the track of the negro, and within three hours he was captured. When found ne had substituted his short pants Tor the long trousers he had had on earlier In the ! dav He was taken before the sossamah girl who at once identified him.
 Denutv Sheriff Patch knowing that the life of the negro would be taken by c-.oh if he troueht him into his city, knsed him to be conveyed to a station ,,,oral miles up the Mobile and Ohio hilroad. He was not taken to the jail at l. and was at least eight miles rom Sl ], city when the mob which determined i'd have him approached the building.
 News Caused Intense Excitement.
 1here have been several assaults upon white women within the last few weeks and the news of this latest outrage caused intense wrath and excitement. As early as o'clock in the evening the crowds of men commenced to gather in the down. town streets and by 6:30 800 men had formed at the intersection of Royal and pauprin streets. The crowd was haran- eued by several speakers who urged them in take the life of the negro if he could be found, and in short time the entire crowd was on the march for the jail. Sheriff Powers met the leaders 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 through the jail to sat- isfy the crowd of the truth of his state- ment. About forty men walked through the corridors. some of them returning and assuring the members of the mob that the man was not there. While several men, including Hoyle and Lyons, were stil in the Jail, portion of the crowd led bv A tall, rawboned 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 or A double door, one half of which was wood.
 The door fell with a crash and almost instantly a shot came from revolver in the hands of a man standing in the gate At once the members of the mob commenced a fusilade and about dozen revolver shots were fired, and then came several shots from a rifle held in the hands of a man who elevated it above his head and worked 1t vigorously While hold- ing it in that position.
 Stampede for Shelter.
 Not more than a dozen men took part in the firing and as the shots rang out there was a stampede on the part of the 
 scattered and in few seconds Alderman Lyons. who had been on the inside of the faiI came out and holding up his hand from which the blood was streaming, an- nounced that he had been shot and that Roy Hoyle had received bullet through the left lung There were loud calls for physician and one who was in the crowd hastened to the jail, and coming out inside of few minutes informed the crowd a time.
 Hoyle has been exceptionally popular and the fact that he had beeB shot while looking through the jail in order to ascer- tain if the negro was there, took all the fight out of the mob, and for the most part it dispersed quietly.
 Urges Crowd to Follow Him.
 The big man who had led the gang with the telephone pole. however was anxious for further vengeance on the negroes, and passlonately urged the crowd to follow him to the colored section of the city, de- claring that i've will give them what they got in Atlanta" He stalked away, followed by a few men who deserted him before he had gone three squares.
 The crowd later received information that Robinson had been taken from the city to Eight Mile, Point on the Mobile and Ohio railroad. where he was to be placed upon the train and taken still far ther away. As soon as this was known fully 300 men boarded the Mobile and Ohio passenger train leaving here at S:25 D. m. with the expressed intention of lynchng the negro if they could get hold of him.
 Governor Jelks. who was in the city tonight, at once took active steps to pre- vent any further disorder, and ordered that three companies of militia be brought 10 the city as quickly as possible. He called upon the Louisville and Nashville
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