Arizona republican., 1906-10-03
MOBILE MOB
 A MAN SHORT
Lost in an Assault Upon
 Jail
Crime. of a Negro Precipi- tated Wild Scene in Late- Iy Stricken Town.

Mobile, Ala, Oct. 2.-Roy Hoyle, a special officer of the Mobile and Ohio railroad and one of the most widely known and best liked men in this vii cinity was fatally shot and Alderman Sidney Lyons, chairman of the city council of Mobile, was slightly wound ed in the hand tonight during a fight at the county jail between the officers and a crowd of men determined to cap ture gDick Robinson, a young negro. The mob is still hunting the negro and threatens to lynch him. The negro, who is only seventeen years old, today at tackled Ruth, the twelve year old daughter of Blount Sossaman. who lives about three miles from here.
 Sheriff Patch, knowing that the life of the negro would be taken by the mob if he brought him into this city caused him to be conveyed to a station several miles up the Mobile and Ohio railroad. He was not taken to the jail and was at least eight miles from the city when the mob determined to have him. approached the building.
 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 in the jail, a portion of the crowd led by a tall, raw boned man. whose name is not known seized telephone pole which had been blown down in the re- cent storm and dashed it against the closed part of a double door, one half of which was open. The door fell and almost instantly a shot was fired by man standing in the gate.
 At once the members of the mob commenced a fusilade of revolver shots, and then came several shots from rifle held in the hands of a man who leveled it above his head and worked it vigorously while holding it in that position. Not more than a dozen men took part in the firing and as the shots rang out there was a stampede Of the crowd for shelter.
 The mob was widely scattered, and in a few seconds Alderman Lyons. who had been on the inside of the jail, came out, holding up his hands. from which blood was streaming and an- nOunced that he had been shot and that Roy HoyIe had been shot through the left lung. The fact that HoyIe had been shot while looking through the jail in order to ascertain if the negro was there, took all the fight out of the mob and for the most part it disap- peared.
 The big man who had led the gang with the telephone pole. however, was anxious for further vengeance on the negroes, and passionately urged the crowd ot follow him to the colored sec ton of the city, declaring that i've will give them what they got in Atlanta"
 The crowd later received informa- tion that Robinson had been taken to Eight Mile Point on the Mobile and 1 Ohio railroad. where he was to be placed upon the train and carried still further. As soon as this was known fully 300 men boarded the Mobile and Ohio passenger train, leaving here at SEQ D. m. with the expressed inten- tion of Iynching the negro if they could get him.
 Governor Jelks, who was in the city tonight. at once took active steps to 1 prevent any further disaster and or ! dered that three companies of militia 1 be sent to the city as quickly as pos ! sible. He called upon the Louisville | and Nashville road for a special train and directed that the companies from | Brownton, Evergreen and Fort Depot ! be brought here
 ! The temper of the citizens of Mobile regarding the crime of Robinson was shown tonight before the conclusion of i the performance at the Mobile theater. | the leading playhouse of the city. A i crowd of 200 men had gathered in front of the place, determined to attack the negroes in the theater as they came out. Nothing was done. but it would i have required only the slightest alter | cation between a white and a coIored man to have produced serious trouble.