Evening star., 1920-06-16
GRAND Jury PROBE
ORDERED IN DULUTH
AFTER LYNCH|NGS
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DULUTH, Mimi, June 16.-Immedi-
ate investigation will be made by
county authorities of the lynching of
three negroes here last night by a
mob, which battered its way into the
police station to get the negroes.
Four judges of the district court to-
day signed an order conveni1g spe-
cial grand jury at the courthouse to-
morrow to inquire as to grave pub
lic onenses recently committed in
this county,"
It was said the two companies of
Minnesota national guardmen hur-
ried here this morning from st. Paul
might return to Fort Smelling late
today.
The negroes taken into custody at
Virginia. Mimi, suspicioned of COM
plicity in the attack on a seventeen
year-old white girl here Monday night,
with which the negroes lynched were
charged. were reported en- route to
the county Jail here in charge OF
Sheriff Frank L. Magic.
Virtually normal conditions prevailed
today on. the Duluth business streets.
over which q mob OF s. 600 persons surged
last night. sweeping the police from
power and seiztng and lynching three
negroes held in connection with an
attack on a seventeen-year-uld white
girl,
when two companies of Minnesota
national guardsmen reached here
early today, after a special train trip
from st. Paul, they found only q
damaged police station and Uttered
streets as visual evidence of the
mob's activity.
Under personal command of State
Adjt. Gen. w. H. Rhinow, the 124
men and & officers went into fonno
rary camp, preparing to patrol the
streets, II necessary, to guard against
any eveEtuality that might arise as
an aftermath Of the mob's mad run.
The men are equipped for riot duty.
Available records today showed only
one previous lynching in the history
Of Minnesota, but this had not been
confirmed in official circles. Twenty
years ago, 1t was said. a white man
was lynched in this county near Noun
tain Iron for attacking girl.
Police Force Overpowered.
Last nights lynchings were ac-
complished after the city's police force
had been overpowered by bricks and
streams from fire hose in an attack on
police headquarters, which fronts Su-
perior street, Duluth's principal busi-
ness tlioroughfare. For at least two
linquishing its power after the
negroes had been lynched.
Six negroes had been arrested by
the police in connection with the at
tack on the girl, which took place at
q circus ground on Monday night.
circus as roustabouts. The mob held
a mock trial. declared three Of the
negroes guilty and acquitted the
other three, who today were still in
the hands Of the police.
The three convicted" negroes were
h a Iol oF
the police station. the mob hooting
down pleas of two priests that the
law be permitted to take it's course,
1t took three starts to hang the first
negro, as the rope broke the first two
times.
No Further Trouble Expected.
After the mob had dispersed early
Of the negroes, which had not been
mutilated. The authorities did not
expect any further trouble today and
expressed themselves doubly sure of
this in view of the presence of the
guardsmen.
There was no new information here
early today in regard to four more of
the negroes said to have been arrested
at Virginia, Mimi. where the show
appeared yesterday. 1t was reported
that eight had been taken into GUS
tody, but that four had been released.
Reports that authorities had started
for Duluth with the four suspects.
but had been diverted to some other
town by reports OF the fioting here
could not be verified early today.
Injuries suffered by eight policemen
and newspaperInan In the brick
! fight and fire hose attack on the police
| station were said to be trivial.
An investigation of the action of
the mob will be made, 1T was under
stood today, but just what form this
| investigation would take had not been
| determined when the guardsmen
raa chad here + -