The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
Several Are Shot by
 Deputies.
GOVERNOR IS RUSHING TO
 SCENE ON SPECIAL TRAIN
Two Companies of Militia Are on
 Guard.
The Immense Mob Is Constantly Be- ing Augmented and They Threat en to Use Dynamite--whtte
 Girl is Assaulted by
 Black Brute.

spartanburg, S. C., Oct 10--In the heart of spartanburg. with it's 2o.ooO people, a mob of infuriated citizens. at times numbering thousand or more. fought today and tonight with the military and civil authorities for the possession of John Irby. negro, who Is alleged to have attempted to ravish Miss Liliie Dempsey. earlier In the. day. while the young woman was on her way here from Saxon Mill Vil- lage three miles away.
 Four persons were wounded. one of them seriously, and John Sparks, restaurant keeper. was -rrested and held without bail. on the charge of shooting Sheriff Nichols who was slightly wounded. in the exchange of | shots between the mob and the aa- thorities who were protecting tho pris- | oner.
 Beginning about noon. the crowd. sullen and bent on vengeance on the negro. roamed about the court house square. approaching at times the very gates of the high wall enclosing the jah. Late tonight the situation became alarming. The crowd wps apgmentsd by 5000 people from GreenvilIe. There was some shooting in the street and the mob moved Into the public square The first shot came from window | of the iail and 1t was sfollowed ny l others from the same quarter. An answering shot was fred from the crowd This broke a window In the
 Nicholas. Sparks was accused of the T Shooting and immediately taken tntt custody Ills attornexs offered si.00t l. bail tonight but this was refused.
 Those wounded by the ofitcers wHet
 they fired on the csowd were:
 Grover Fowler, n years old, shot r lthe arm and hand. ssss,.s
 Tsrnest Foster, 90 years old. serious
 iy wounded in the side and shoulder.
 Garner. ss years t ola; s,,onsSsr ssr,ous'
 Soldiers on Scene.
 Just before nightfall. the guard az inc iaiI was augmented by the arrival of the Morgan Rifles. fifty strong, from Clifton, suburban mill town, and
 later by company of state troops forty strong, the local company of tho | state troops had been at the jail
 since 1 o'clock today. A hundred reg
 ulation army rifles protruding from
 windows, doors and porches of the
 building. presented a. form,aaols es l proposition for the consideraation ok
 the mob leaders
 Governor Ansei left his home in | fsreenytlIe, forty miles west of here. 1 on A special train tonight. As thus " a prohibition town. the main sourcH
 of supplying the demand Tor. liquor. ls | Of ha X~
 nresg Company, and that establtsh-
 mani was closed early this afternoon
 in so far as the delivery of whiskey l was concerned.
 There were threats of dynamitins
 the jail and precautions were taken
 to have all known supplies or kne | explosive guarded.
 While today's crime of the negro Irhv was the chief clause of the mob q fury. the presence in the jail or two . other negroes against whom there have from time to time recently been ! threats of violence. added to the ex-
 citement One of these negroes, Ciar- ence Agnew, wrecked a passengSr l, train on the main line of the Southern , Railway two weeks ago near Duncan
 S C., and the engineer and hremen
 were killed in that wreck.
 Tt u,as expected that Agnew would
 hA tried at the last term of court, but
 for some unexplained reason he wai , not tried. The other negro, VIII Eos , ter. was twice convicted of the revolt : ing murder of John Young white , man, last November.
 Irhv's arrest was effected shortly af.
 fer the commission of his crime and
 close to the scene of his attack. hs was captured by mill operatives, wal
 taken before the young woman Q who, immediately tdentined him 2 ana was.t then carried into the woods ; His captors were about 10 lynch hiu : when mounted police arrived and ' wrested him from the crowd. not how ever. before the negro had been hadlS beaten.
 and almost immediately the stornins |. of the jail began. Sheriff Nacholi : : swore in a number Of deputies and tn. U ,niIitta was ordered out. The mol 2 tried to gain ingress by means Q step ladders but that. too, was tnef f lee'u1' Mob, Spirit wsnes.
 At midnight the mob spirit Wa :, The men that rushed into the cit {, from Greenvllle made tour or th stores where firearms might be had # but found policeman at every tus' . and after conferrlng with local lead
 era of the crowd. evidently decided t . make no immediate assault on th 7 iau The police arrested five alege . leaders of the mob about michigan .- thIE action having a salutary effect.
 The Laurens Company or Stat Q troops has been stationed In the eoaf 5 house overlooking the jail.
 v shortly after midnight the crowd Q y tbe streets had diminished in numbel ,t excitement had diminished and tn n crlsIE was bek d to be past. "a Mob A Dispersed, ,e At 1:S0 o'clock b uday morning tn
 roob which has suFged about the cit 10 In the vicinity of the county jail sine ,e noon Intent on lynching the negr n John Irby, has apparently spent i' IT force.
 Where there were a thousand me T. three hours ago, there are only fe' B. hundred now gathered in groups tall IS ing over the events of the day e- ths county fail under the command