The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-02-11
RIOTING RESULTS.
IN DEATH OF FIVE
Martial Law Declared in Lexington
Kentucky.
TROOPS REACH SCENE
Mob Bent OH Lynching William Lock.
EFT Fired Upon BY State
Militiamen.

leuefal ana state troops are patrol
ing the streets to prevent further riot
ing which during the day exacted q
toll Of five dead and Is wounded. e|
j. NJ. Rogers, 61, farmer of near
Versailles, Woodford county shot by
the guardsmcn during the fighting this
morning died tonight from his in
Juries, bringing the death list to five.
The city was quiet early tonight,
but authorities fear a recurrence of
violence. Five hundred additional
! United States troops arc en- route
from Camp Taylor, Ky.
Lexington and all Of Fayctte county
was placed under marclaI law at 3
o'clock by Brig. Gen. T.. c.. Marshall
upon his arrival from Camp Tavlor
with 300 troops of the famous First
division which helped rcpulsc the Ger
mans at Chateau Thietry.
Rloting began this morning when q
mob bent upon lynching William
Lockctt, negro who confessed to the
murder last week of ten year old
Geneva Hardman, was fired upon with
rifles and machine guns by state mill
tlamcn as the mob was storming the
Fayettc county court house to get the
negro during his trial.
| Just Before Confession.
The attempt to lynch Lockctt was
made just after he had confessed to
/ the murder and as the jury found him
guilty of murder in the first. degree.
/ lie was sentenced to die in the electric
chair March If.
The shooting temporarily dispersed
the mob and gave the authorities time
! IN which to rush Lockctt to a secret
! place of safety. The mob reformed,
! however, ard looted pawnshops and
i hardware stores to get firearms.
Fearing an attack upon the hand
! fUl Of National Guardsmcn on duty the
/ authorities appealed to Governor Nor
row for assistance. AS result 500
troops, members of the Twcnty-sixth
and twenty eighth infantry, arrived
; at ) O'Clock on special train from
Camp Taylor.
The federal troops Immediately be-
gan the work Of patrolling the streets
to keep crowds from congrcgating.
Lockctt, arrested last Tuesday night
and held in the state pcnitcntiary at
frankfort for safe keeping, was in
clctcd late last week and was brought
here on IL special train this morning
tor trial He was heavily guarded
Hundreds Of farmers from the sur
rounding country arrived early to at
tend the trial and sullenly watched the
prisoner as he was marched from tho
tram to the court house between lines
OF state troopers. When the trial
opened the court room was crowded to
capacity. Every one was searched for
firearms before being admitted to the
court house. Hundreds were unable to
gam admittance to the court room and
congrcgatcd in the street in front of
the court house.
Farmer Starts Mob.
The cry, Lets get hon." from a
brawny farmer on the outskirts of the
crowd turned the crowd into a mob
which began surging towards the en-
trance to the building. Soldiers and
police dropped back into close forma-
ton and trained their guns on the
mob, which never hcstatcd.
/ Adjutant General Dcwccse, in COM
nF
final warning to the crowd and then
fired revolver into the air. 1t was
the signal for the troops to fire.
Soldiers and police fired point blank
INTO the crowd an a nearby machine
gun ratified. From the windows of
the court room above another hail of
bullets spattered down on the asphalt
street.
-Four men fell at the first volley.
| The mob which had surged half way
up the steps pressed back and broke
! Quick action on the part of the au-
thorties got the negro out of the
building.
Z Those killed in the clash were: b. f.
Carrier and l.. NJ. King, both of Lex
ington and John Thomas and Will
liam Ellington, both Of Versailles.
Among those wounded were: J. w.
Stansell, w. j. Reese, Otis Sharp, EN-
NETT Doziecr, Irwin Gwynn, Emmett
Danziger, Fred Sowdcrs, II. c.. Wealth
ers, Mrs. E. II. Cross, James Masscvg-
all and j. M. Rogers.