The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-01

en route to Montgomery from Savannah, Ga. These rifles will be turned over to national guardsmen, for use in case of an emergency. Adjutant General Moon and Assistant Adjutant General Thomp- son are not in the city, and the pro- gramme of the military department could not be ascertained However, it is known companies of the guard al- ready have been organized, and many of them are veterans of the recent war
 Wild rumors, the majority without foundatioB, continued to go the rounds Tuesday, following one of the most dis orderly nights ever experienced in the history of the capital city. It is known that white citizens called upon a leader of the negro race, on bond charged with insulting a white girl several days ago, and demanded that he leave town. The negro, a doctor, caught the first train out, and it was said his destination was Cincinnati
 Three negroes dead-the victims of two masked mobs, one shot in the leg and approximately a dozen slightly wounded That is the result of clasheA during the night between whites and blacks. The slightly wounded negroes were attacked during the early morn. ing hours Tuesday, when it became known Policeman J. B. Barbaree one of the oldest and best known members of the police department, had been shot and killed in a pistol duel with Will Temple, who, while on his death bed at negro infirmary, was shot to death by masked band of six men.
 MANY NEGROES ATTACKED Negroes returning to their homes in the early hours of Tuesday, were at- tackled by white men, and many were | beaten. One negro reported that he was shot in the leg by men passing in an automobile.
 | Disturbances started at oclock Mon ! day afternoon. after Robert Crosky and Relous Phifer, negro ex-soldiers, had i been ordered sent to the penitentiary at | Wetumpka for safekeeping, after they had been arraigned in the Montgomery circuit court for attacks on white women.
 | The automobile, containing three dep few miles from the city, and within a short distance from the state convict farm, by masked mob, who demanded . the negroes. Within 100 yar~s of the . public roads the two negroes were ly ynched. Phifer died immediately, but Crosky lived several hours, dying at the county jail to which place he was taken when it was reported the mob would storm the negro hospital and take the | wounded negro
 ! At midnight Policeman Barbaree, go- ! ing to his home. attempted to quel a disturbance between three negroes. He was shot by Will Temple, one of the participants, but before the officer died he shot Temple through the head.
 BODY IS RIDDLED 1 At 2:30 o'clock mob, said to have been
 composed of six men, overpowered a guard at Hales Infirmary for negroes,
 and going to the ward occupied by
 Temple. riddled his body with bullets.
 Quickly the report of the third lynching
 spread over the city, and this signalled for attacks on all neer es on the street.
 City jail officers first reported Temple
 had been killed by the officer. They
 were seeking to prevent the spreading of the news there had been a third lynch- ing.
 Two other negroes are under arrest for Insulting and attacking white women. 1 One negro, Dr. Watkins, was held under a bond of $500 for stopping Montgomery society girl on the street and making improper remarks to her. This negro
 was ordered from the city, it was said Tuesday, and has not been seen for sev- l eral days The other negro, also said to have served in the war. attacked long | distance telephone operator week ago as she went to her work in the down. | town district.
 ] Tactics to be used in experiencing ! t'e members of the two mobs were not made public by the states legal depart ment Tuesday. It was reported. how ever, that special investigators would be 1 brought to the city.