Republican farmer., 1920-02-13
1 KILLED TWO OF WHO WERE WOMEN
 FIFTEEN INJURED
People Intent on Lynch- ing Negro - Troops Ordered From Louis vile to Prevent TrOu- ble Fear Soldiers Will Be Attacked By Mob.

Lexington, Feb. 9-FoIr per- sons were killed and several injured here today, wben & mob intent upon lynching Will liam Lockett, a negro who con- fessed to the murder of 10 year old Geneva Aa1 dman, charged the court house during Lock- ett's trial and was fired upon by police and state troops.
 Two women were reported to bs among those shot by Ehe state troops. The clash with the soldiers held oft the mob while the authorities man aged to slip the negro away to a place of safety.
 Great excitement was caused by the shooting and there were mutter2ngs of further trouble.
 Those reported killed by the troop CTS were: R. F. Carrier of Lexington; John Thomas of Versailles, William Ellington of Versailles, and L. M. 1 King of Lexington. Several of the ! wounded are expected to die. While the mob, the ring leaders of
 
 to get into the court house to get Lockett, a jury found him guilty Of first degree murder and a minute or l two later the negro was sentenced to die in the electric chair March Il. In addition to the four persons killed fifteen persons were injured when the troops fired into the mob, the author ittes ascertained later. Four hundred
 troops from Camp Taylor. Ky. have been ordered to Lexington to prevent any further trouble and are now en route here, officials announced. The | additional troops were requested as it was feared that the 300 niiitiamen could not handle the situation. Fearing that the mobs would loot pawn shops to obtain firearms, police and military officers went to all such stores in the city and gathered up tguns and revolvers. They sajd an at tack upon the n1ilitiamen was feared. Soldiers and policemen continue to
 the shooting. Officials feared that
 another attempt might be made to
 lynch Lockett should the crowd dis
 cover his whereabouts. 7fJI f' | Trouble was feared by the authori- ] ties as soon as Iockett was captured 1 and confessed to the assault and
 murder of the little Hardman girl
 Tuesday. At first the prisoner was lodged in the state prison at Frank
 fort. When he was indicted late
 last week and it was decided to hold
 his trial here today, approximately , 1 300 state troops were ordered here to guard him.
 The little Hardman girl was found
 murdered by schoolmates a short dis l tance from her home last Tuesday = morning, just few minutes after she , had left home for a nearby school house. She had been dragged into a
 cornfield and her head had been crushed with a stone. The body had
 been partly covered up with corn f, stalks.
 Within, a few minutes posses were : formed by residents of the neighbor-
 hood and search was instituted for s the murderer. Lockett was suspected . and finally was found late that night . at a friends house about six miles
 from the scene. He was taken into , custody by a Lexington physician and :, his friend, to whom he denied having
 murdered the girl. Later police an
 nounced, the negro confessed to the ! murder, adding that he didn't know l why he had killed the girl. I Louisville, Ky, Feb. s-Peport  e forenoon said mobs then were loot I ing pawn shops and hardware stores at Lexington in an effort to obtain firearms and had declared the inten. ton of securing the negro by any means.
 On the heels of the report came ar appeal from Governor Edwin P. Nor. row for troops to protect the negro and quiet the situation.
 Arrangements Immediately were made at Camp Zachary Taylor tc form two provisional batta1ions of 16C men each and send them to Lexing- l ton The troops were to be t-om-
 manded by General F. c. Marshal and were to go by special train, i one could be secured. Lacking rail,
 road facilities, it was said, the troops . would be sent by truck.
 Lexington is nearly 100 miles from
 Louisville.