Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-10
MARTIAL LAW IS
PROCLAIMED IN
LEXINGTON AND
FAYETTE COUNTY
Disorders Following Attempt
Of Mob to Lynch Negro
Murderer Leads to DraS-
tic Action in Kentucky,
CITY Is QUIET BUT
TROUBLE EXPECTED
Rioting During the Day Re-
suits in Four Deaths and
Fifteen Being Wounded;
Troops PatroIIing Streets,

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lay MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiREl
Lexington, KY, Feb. 9.-Martial
aw prevails tonight. Six hundred
'ederal and state troops are pa
rolling the streets to prevent fur
her rioting, which during the day
exacted a toll of four dead and fif
cen wounded.
The city was quiet but authorl-
les fear a recurrence of violence.
Five hundred additional United
states troops from Camp Taylor
Will arrive tomorrow morning.
Lexington and all of Fayette
county was placed under martial
aw by Brigadier General f. c.
upon his arrival from
Camp Taylor with 200 troops of
he First division.
Rioting began this morning when
| mob bent on lynching William
Iockett, a negro, who confessed TO
he murder last week of a ten
girl Geneva Hardman,
" Nio llltu hBpH viii Iiltt0 am
machine guns by state militiamen
Us the mob was storming the Fay
,tte county court house to get the
legro during his trial.
The attempt to lynch Lockett
vas made just after he had con-
essed to the murder and as the
ury found him guilty of murder q
he first degree. He was sentenced
o die in the electric chair March
The shooting temporarily dis
1ersed the mob and gave the au-
horities time in which to rush |
Jockett to secret place of safety. |
Fearing an attack upon the |
handful of national guardsmen on
luty, the authorities appealed 20 |
Governor Morrow for assistance. |
As result, 800 troops members Of |
he Twenty and Twenty |
Eighth infantry, arrived at 3 o'clock
m special train from Camp Tay- |
or
The federal troops Immediately |
'egan the work of patrolling the
treets to keep the crowds from |
Lockett, arrested last Tuesday |
light and held in the state peni- |
entiary at Frankfort for safe keep |
ng, was indicted late last week and |
vas brought here on a special train |
his morning for trial. He was
leavily guarded.
Hundreds of farmers from the |
country arrived to at
end the trial, and sullenly watched |
he prisoner as he was marched |
rom the train to the court house
etween lines of state troopers. |
When the trial opened, the court |
oom was crowded to capacity. |
everyone was searched for fire |
rms before admitted to the court |
ouse. Hundred gathered in the
treet in front of the court house.
The cry Lets get him" from a
rawny farmer on the outskirts of
he crowd turned the crowd into
mob which began surging toward
he building. Soldiers and police
ropped back into close formation
nd trained their guns on the mob,
,hich never hesitated.
Adjutant General Deweese, in
of the militiamen, shout
d a final warning to the crowd
nd then fired revolver into the
ir. 1t was the signal for the
roops to fire.
Soldiers and police fired point
lank into the crowd and a nearby
lachine gun ratified. From the
of the court room above
mother hail of bullets spattered
own on the asphalt street.
Four men fell at the first volley.
The mob, which had surged half
yay up the steps, pressed back and
roke. Quick action on the part
t the authorities got the negro out
f the building.
Those killed in the clash were B.
'. Carrier and l.. M. King, both of
.exington, and John Thomas and
William Ellington, both of Ver-
allies.
Among those wounded were:
j. w, Stansell, w. j. Reese, Otis
harp, Emmett Dozier, Irwin
wynn, Emmett Danzieger, Fred
owders, II. C. Weathers, Mrs. e.
!. Cros, James Massevgal, and ].
I. Roger.
Fooled in it's first attempt to get
1e prisoner, the mob broke up
ito small groups which paid hur-
ed visits to all the pawnshops and
ardware stores in a quest for fire
rms. In some stores as many as
fly or sixty revolvers and guns
ere seized.
Groups of men congregated on
lie streets and sought to learn the
of Lockett. The word
lat regular army troops were
)ming spread rapidly and no fur
Ter violence was attempted.
Lockett's arrest, indictment, trial
nd sentence sets a new record for
,sted last Tuesday night, indicted /,
riday and was tried. found guilty
nd sentenced in a few minutes to-
ny. Under his sentence he will
e in the electric chair March II. i,
The little Hardman girls body
as found mutilated in a corn 4
eld last, Tuesday morning soon Z
ter she had left her home for
hool. Her head had been crush
in with a stone and her body q
covered up with corn q
alks. Z,
Lockett, recently discharged g.
ON the army, was suspected and q
'sses We're formed Immediately to 4
ok for him. He was found at 4
e home of friend six miles from I
e scene of the murder that night. ..
Police announced that the negro Z
I'd confessed to the murder, add Z
g that "he did not know why he &
I'd killed the girl" u