Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-01-12
KENTUCKY GOVERNOR,
JUDGE AND SOLICITOR
THREATENED BY MOB
Special Train Ready to Take
Officials From Murray If
Further Demonstrations
Against Lives Are Made
(By Associated Press.J

(By Associated Press.J
! MURRAY, KY, Jan. 11.-With the
governor of Kentucky on the scene ana
with a posse reported forming as Hop
kinsville, for their relief, Circuit Judge
Charles Bush and Commemorative At
torney Denny Smith spent the night at
hotel here guarded from a mob by
heavy force of deputy Sheriffs.
The special train on which Governor
Stanley arrived was left standing with
steam up, ready to take the officials
! from Murray if further demonstrations
were made against their lives,
Open threats were made on the streets
that any attempt to remove Judge Bush
| from Murray or to prevent the trial to-
| day of Lube Martin, negro charged
with killing Guthrie Duigiud, white
man, would place the governors life in
danger.
1t was because of a continuance
granted yesterday by Judge Bush in the
case of Martin that the anger of the
mob was aroused. Immediately after
the continuance was ordered Martin was
spirited out of Murray and taken to Pa
ducah for safe keeping.
The fact that a continuance had been
| granted was kept secret for time and
then publicly announced by Judge Bush.
who stated that he would De uleu next
| month.
Howls and jeers from the crowd gath
| cred in the court room greeted this
statement. The mob called for the
prisoner and when he was not pro-
duced demanded that the judge surren-
der himself in place of the accused
| man.
JUDGE HOWLt;D DOWN.
| Attempts at explanation from the
bench were howled down while leaders
| of the mob demanded that the negro
| be returned to the court room and
| placed on trial Court officials then
explained that Martin had been spirited
away and could not be returned before
this morning. This further aroused the
anger of the mob which demanded that
Judge Bush order the return of the
negro, threatening in the event of his
| failure to comply with their demand
| to lynch him together with the COM
| monwealtfs attorney or to dynamite
| the hotel at which they were starting.
! At a hasty conference between counsel
and Judge Bush it was announced that
the negro would be brought back and
placed on trial this morning.
| A hurry call was put in for Governor
! Stanley and he was informed of the
situation here He left Frankfort on
| the first available train bringing with
| him Judge II. B. Hines, chairman of
| the state prison commission, and Ward
en- ]. b. Chiffon, of the Eddyville peni-
tertiary. Ill feeling against the negro,
Martin, has been keen in Galloway c0un-
! ty since the shooting of Duigiud several
weeks ago.
Immediately following the shooting
Martin was taken to Hopkinsville for
safe keeping. When he was brought
back here for an examining trial. it was
Announced, in order to forestall posi-
BILE mob violence, that the negro would
be promptly tried upon the converting
OF the circuit court
Martin was brought from Murray
Tuesday from Hopkinsville, where he
had been held since his examining trial.
Because it was feared an effort might
be made to lynch him he was held all
night under a heavy guard of deputy
sheriffs in the court house.
Long before the negro was brought
| into the court room every available
space was filled and spectators crowded
| corridors and vestibules. J. T. Holt, APP
| pointed by the court as counsel for
Martin, asked for continuance in
order that the evidence in the case might
be more fully developed. This was
granted and the negro smuggled from
| the court room and out of Murray be-
| fore those present were aware of what
was happening.
81 have come here to uphold law and
order and to protect this court, with my
own body if necessary" declared Cover
nor A o. Stanley, facing a crowd which
! filled every available space of the cir
cult room Of the Galloway county court
house.
The governors first move after his ar
rival in Murray was to deputize 10 citiz-
ems and order them to prevent any out
break at all costs. His next moveswas to
address the crowd in court room when
court convened. For more than half an
hour Governor Stanley explained his
purpose in coming to Murray.
"a little more than a year ago." said
the governor, 81 put my right hand on a
Bible and called to God to witness that as
chief magistrate of Kentucky and sup
porter of the law I would maintain its
integrity / have come here today to
plead with you to allow the law to take
its orderly course and to declare that
am here to uphold the law and to pro-
tect this court, with my own body if
necessary"
Governor Stanley's address was ap-
parentIy well received, except by few
in the rear who cried Bring in the
negro now. Try the negro now. don't
wait"
After Governor Stanley had conclud-
ed it was announced that the time and
place for the trial of Martin would be
made public later. The greater part of
the crowd filed out in an orderly man.
ner.
The tension which has existed here
for the last twenty-four hours appears
to have been considera bly, relieved.