The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-08

shot. It really helped to quiet matters. The mob was blocked and blurred, well known man in whom the mob hao confidence. was asked to say a word 70 them. Taking place on the ianaihs he called out:
 "Boys. they have got all the military here--plenty of them. They are too many for you. You had better go home.-
 one by one the crowd which had made up the mob slipped away In the darkness and all danger was oyer
 A Preliminary Hearing.
 Davis early this morning vas giv- en preliminary hearing before Jucge l. !. Clayton. He had entered the room of Miss Lizzie Thomas. the teie- phone operator who sleeps adjoining the exchange. She was awakened py him running against chair. Sne switched on the electric light suddenly: To escape detection he threw himself face downwards on the floor. But sne had recognized him as Laurence Davls' . negro who worked about the buiid- inR.
 In court he waived exxnination. Judge Clayton. going to the limit or his Jurisdiction held him to the grand jury in s10.ooo bond. which he could not make. Davis had admitted that
  as, but claimed that he had only gone in to get an early start in cleaning up the building.
 As soon as the preliminary hearing was over the military company was formed in columns of fours. Davis was put In the center of the company with Sheriff Teal and Deputy Sheriff Craw- ford on either side of him. He was marched to the depot and held in a hoI- low square until the train came in. He was put aboard with the entire company escorting him. At Cochran, Captain Mckenzie and all his ,aen left the train and returned to Eufaula on the II o'clock. east bound train. few miles farther on the train stopped where q surrey was waiting and Da- wis and the officers got off for fast drive to Clayton. Col. E. H. Graves and a detail of ten men went on to Union Springs. returning on the n o'clock train.
 While there was some excitement in town during the day. the preliminary arrangements for a lynching were so quietly made that only the peace offi- cers. who were tipped of. and the members of the mob knew of It. The rope was bought during the afternoon, Eledge hammers were obtained, and big piece of timber was marked and noted for future use. Men in ougEies UTOVe aDOut. lH Balu, tGtttuk OtnCt men that there would iikeiv De some thing doing about the jail.
 Deputy Crawford. the only represen- tative of the sheriffs office of Eufaula, quickly learned of this. He went to the jail at o'clock in the afternoon doubIy locked all the doors, summoned two men to help him and tried unsuc- positively the demands of the mob for the negro and was prepared with his assistants to make as desperate a re- sistance as possible. if the mob should break in the second door as they had the first.
 It was said that while the crowd outside the jail numbered perhaps 1sO tive in the attack on the jail and most of these were drunk or nearly drunk. It was said that the original intention of the mob was to wait until later in the night. but some of them became so impetuous under the influence of blind tiger whiskey they could not be restrained.
 The fellow with the big voice went down the street calling out Come m, boys" Ills cry reached the congregn- tions of the various churches, which were about to conclude the Sunday ev- ening services. They knew what the cry meant. And to increase the con fusion. corporals and sergeants rushed into the churches to sufnon members of the military company for duty against the mob.
 Colonel Graves established connsc- ton with Governor Conner in Montgor1- cry over the long distance telephone, as he was starting to the jail He told him the situation and that the sheriff had called on him for the military com pany and that they were about to go to the jail. The Governor told him Protect the prtsoner-shoot if you must, but protect the prisoner"
 It is believed that the crisis of the trouble was passed when the mob was unable to force the jail. With Davis saef in Clayton jail quiet is completely restored.