The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-27

erady Hames. = years II 400.
81 1aytona Beach, died this
rnornina at local hospital. wfiie q
his father. Arthur hemes. q II 8
the county jaii at DeLa and for safe
keeping, following at attack On
the latter It his apartment n the
Ohio House, Sunday evening "
eight unknown assaiiants. Grady
WAS shot ti1rse times n oculli1
II which he attempted to pro
tect his father from the men who
told him they had come to lynch
him for intimacy with his own
daughter. Lena Haraes, with
whom the father and son lived st
the beach apartment house.
Eight men, unmasked. presented
themselves at the Hames apartment
at 1880 Sunday evening. and told
Hames they we're there to lynch him
for not obeying their warning OF
earlier iii the week, when the same
men are said to have taken Hames
to point west Of 0rmond and warn
ed him that intimacy with his daugh-
ter must stop. In the struggle With
the man, his. son. Grady who VAS
present. was shot three times by ope
Of the men. and left to- die s The
daugtitef rushed out after thel mem
Who took her father in their two cars
waiting on Atlantic avenue, firing
several shots after the men, one bull
| let taking effect IN the back of the
car
The men rushed Hames, senior.
west on the DeLand road, followed
lby Deputy Sheriffs Will Young. r. o.
/ Milton, Officer Chas. Green and E. S.
| Miller on a motorcycle, the officers
losing the trail Of the ears west OF
DeLand.
The men took Hames sto a point
between DeLeon Springs and Barber
vile. where they are alleged to have
tied him to log. and beat him Sc
verely with straps. after hitting him
| in the head with the butt end of their
guns.
/ There they left him. Later he man
LACED to reach the main road, where
he was picked up by p W. Eldridge
and returned to Daytona Beach. Feel
/ ing was running so high by this time
II o'clock, that eight deputies, arriv-
ing from DeLand at the call of Mar
shall Young rushed Hames to the
j county Jail at DeLand. where he i
Ereposing for safekeeqing, the officers
wearing that lynehing of the mar
4 would result by his being retained
here.
i Boy Died This Morning
Tho boy Grady. was rushed to 30
hannons hospital although no hopt
was held out for his recovery. hs
DYING at 7:so this morning, never re
gaining consciousness
Feeling was intense at the beacl
today, following the affair which
aroused most of the residents
Ii was stated that several of th'
lparty of assailants are well known
+ At the beach. and that sensational de
!, yelopments may be expected Deput,
Sheriff Jones, at DeLand also states
this morning that he had clues lead
ling to several suspects whom he ex
necfed to have under arrest befor'
q the close of today.
The spokesman of the party, Wnel
Ifhev attacked Hames in MS apartmen
: stated that his name was Anderson
and that he was a Jacksonville law
!, yer. Several OF the men were strang
i ers to any who saw them. and to IN
/ girl
Hafnes refused TO talk TO the pres
at DeLand jail this morning.
h Arthur Hames is well known 10 IN
T,jpIe Cities. having followed III
) trade as carpenter for many year
: He is the father of large family
{ children. his wife being dead ON
the daughter and the son now aliv'
lived with him at the Ohio House
4 coroner's Jury Sworn
Il eoroner's jury was sworn IN IN
i naarn ne son rosed oI Gus foiinso'
prauot. Franz Dssales. tstsyg I