Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-30
ROUGH REMINDER
OF RUGGED DAYS
Indian Greek Again ReSOunds With Fierce
Fighting and Furious War WhOOuS,

Grover Lambert dead and John Nor
gan, alias Snine," badly wounded IN
the leg and confined In Jail are the re.
suit OF a big drunk following pay day in
Walton's camp, last Saturday, on the
new branch line of the Norfolk e. West
ern building out of Cedar Bluff.
Morgan had formerly worked for
walton but left there and was working
with the Reynolds outfit. On Saturday
Morgan went up TO the Walton camp 70
draw his pay. There was considerable
drinking going on among the men ano
foreman, ii. e. Harman, drew his Ruu
/ 10 run them away from the camp.
Morgan and another negro were among
Those ordered away and the negro with
Morgan slipped him a gun which he
pulled on Harman. Seeing this a crowd
OF whites gave chase and catching Nor
gan companion gave him a severe
Whipping. Morgan being fleet of foot
outrun the crowd on foot, but Grover
Lambert, having secured horse, over
TOOK Morgan, called on him to surren-
der and fired on him hitting MIN In the
calf of the leg. Morgan took to the
woods and as Lambert continued to ad-
vance he shot Lambert through the
head killing him instantly. This hap
pened about noon. Morgan made his
! escape and succeeded In reaching the
PItzer camp on the north side of the
new tunnel where he hid under a bed In
shack occupied by some Italian labor
ers and would have probably been safe
until officers reached him but from the
TACT colored woman becoming alarmed
at the demonstration being made by the
mob that had collected and fearing a
general outbreak against all the negroes
on the work betrayed Morgan's hiding
place to the mob which then captured
hlm, about CLOCK, and started back to
the scene of the crime with the avowed
intention of lynching him. Owing 10
the distance and 10 having stopped TO
DO some teiephoning they did not reach
Bandy until 8 O'Clock. Morgan had
been q1lescent up to this time but when
they began TO hgure on d suitable hmp
on which TO hang him made up his mimi
TO attempt to escape. HIS opportunity
came when the lIg.-ts were eXunguIsneu
So 1t would be impossible 10 see VINO put
the moose around his neck. With 3
mighty effort Morgan broke the fetters
thaL Bound him and made a wild leap
down forty foot embankment on To-
dian Greek and In the darkness ESCAPED
oy running up the creek u short ways
ana Crossing over doubled tack to he
place where the lynchIng was attempt
co. Resting quleuy here for tlmS
until the mob dispersed, 10 various
re~t,ons IN a futile effUi- to recapture
hun. ne then made hs WAY 10 .ns
camps VI the FncAwI. Constructioi.
Con pany Wheru he nd 4nIlt 2 o'clucn
ooboAJ evening wnen Il small Iorce " no
Dao oeen out rounding Up the coiOre q
laOOrers Tor protection sgaInsJ fur
tner outbreak OI The mob, Captured
han. Realizing that Morgan wouiu
= - a
Devn captured nls captOrs kepj tim con
cealtu unuI s cIOck Monday morninx
wheu superb tendent, G. I. Fraukni,
and foreman, Tom Steele, of the Fnck
wiz ConstrucuUn Company slipped cut
INTO the uarAness with their captive 70
Cedar biuH where he Was md IN a room
IN tile MOTEL unIIi the morning train anu
brought nIm To Tazeweli where he was
lodged IN jail " await the action of the
grand jury.
Commonwealth Attorney r. o.
Crockett and Sheriff >. S. F. Harman.
not knowing OF the arrest of Morgan,
went to Cedar Bluff Monday to investi-
gate the killing of Lambert The in
formation they received there differs
essentially from the stories told first
and in view of the conflicting evidence
will require trial in court to bring out
the truth. AT Cedar Bluff it is claimed
that Morgan is a "boot-legger" and a
constant cause of trouble about the
Camps. That he was armed and not
handed gun after the trouble started
and that he was not shot by Lambert.
but at the time he was arrested, some
six hours after the killing of Lambert.
Ihere Is no excitement around Cedar
Bluff and feeling among the people to
let the law take its course. The at
tempted lynching of Saturday night
was not generally sanctioned and, it is
now SAID, was not generally particlpat-
ed In by the people there but only the
lew misguided ones who in the attend
ant excitement absorbed too much
liquor. The whole affair is too be re-
GREETED and especially as the wide cir
circulation given the matter by the
daily press is liable TO give outsiders a
wrong impression of our county for sta
tlstics will show the present outbreak to
De sporadic and not the result of a pre-
vaiiing condition of lawlessness.