Evening star., 1920-02-10
ARMED SOLDIERS
ATLEX|NCTONK KEEP
MOB SPIRIT DOWN
Gen. Marshall Advises
Against Attempt to Move
Prisoner Now.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, KY, February TO-
Dawn today found Lexington an arm
ed camp.
Squads of armed soldiers who saw
service at Chateau Thierry, were pa
trolling the streets or guarding all
recurrence of yesterdays bloody mob
l.violence that cost the lives of five
persons and caused injury to a score
of others.
William Lockett. negro slayer of
ten-year Geneva Hardman. a
schoolgirl. was confined in a steel
cage in the Fayette county court
house here. awaiting removal either
to the state reformatory at Frank
fort or to the prison "A, Eddyville.
| Reports last night that 1900 noun
talneerS were en- route TO Lexington
to lynch Lockett caused the com
manding officer to throw cordons of
troops across every road leading into
! the city. and to place otner detach-
ments at every strategic point within
t the city. So extensive were the plans
to prevent a further uprising that at
10 O'Clock last night the brigadi er
general announced that the situation
was under control and that no fur
i.ther trouble was expected.
Gen. Marshall announced during the
: forenoon that the situation was so
well in hand that about 200 men of
the 1st Division would be returned to
Camp Taylor. Arrangements were
made to move them late today. The
seventy-f1ve members of the state
troops which repulsed the mob yester-
day also were preparing to entrain
! for Latonia.
Another interesting announcement
| during the forenoon was that of Com
monwealth's Attorney John r. Allen
that no prosecution Of members of the
tiles.
Protection for Prisoner.
No attempt will be made by the au-
steel cage until danger of further
violence has passed, it was an
nounced.
Brig. Gen. Marshall recommended
today that Lockett be kept in Lex
ington until it was entirely safe to
or to Eddyville prison. That. he said.
might be within twenty-four hours
or week. Plans We're formulat ed
this forenoon by the military au
thorities to maintain custody of the
negro.
Gen. Marshall reiterated this fore
noon that he had sufficient force to
cope with any disorder, but said he
regarded possibility of further riot
ing remote. Squads of soldiers. on
duty all night, reported to military
headquarters this morning that there
had been not the slightest sign of
disorder since patrols were estab-
lished.
1t was an attempt to lynch Lockett
yesterday that caused the rioting.
Under guard of several hundred state
troops, the negro vas brought from
no q n to y, ,iy oisN
marched to the courthouse. found
guilty of murder and sentenced to
die in the electric chair March IL.
Shortly after sentence had been
passed a mob of 100 or more men
charged the entrance to the court
house. bent upon lynching the negro.
The troops fired rifles and machine
guns into the crowd. The mob wa
vered and then dispersed. leaving the
toll of dead and wounded behind.
Declared Martial Law.
Additional troops were rushed to the
scene from Camp Zachary Taylor dur
ing the late afternoon and evening
Gen. F. c. Marshall. upon his arrival
Il don't know why 1 did it," the
negro is quoted as having said in the
course of a statement prepared for
submission to the jury, which con-
victed him yesterday. Lockett threw
nlmseH on the mercy OF the court
But one witness. a neighbor of the
dead girls father, was placed on the
stand by the state. The witness iden-
titled the stone with which. the girls
head had been crushed. The jury
rendered its verdict without leaving
it's seats.
Lockett is about thirty-three years
old and came here from Henderson
KY, seven years ago. He enlisted in
the Army and served for eleven
months at Camp Taylor.
Business was being conducted as
usual here today despite the presence
of the troops.
Death last night of J. NJ. Rogers
sixty-one. a farmer of near Versailles
Woodford county. shot during the
rioting, brought the death toll to five.