Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-16

IKllS Guilty.
Two of the judges, Judges w.
A. Cant and Bert Fcslcr, witness
ed the gathering of the mob last.
night in front OF police headquar-
tcrs. but neither saw the Iynching.
County Attorney Warren f..
Greene stated today that his Of
flee would do everything within :
its power TO bring the offenders
who had melted the rioting aud
three lynchings to Justice.
Duluth, Mimi, June 16.-All ten
negroes arrested in Virginia, Mimi,
last night. and those three "acquit-
ted" by the mob last night just before,
it killed three of their companions
for outraging a white girl here Mon
day night. are locked up in st. Louis
heavy guard Of a tank company of
home guards around the building pre-
pared to foil any attempt to lynch
them tonight.
Adjutant General Rhinow went out
today with several truck loads of
Minnesota National Guards men to a
remote spot on Vermillion read be-
met two heavily armed automobile
parties that had stayed there through
out last night and kept guard over
the circus negroes until General
Rhinow arrived today.
Quietly as possible, the negroes
were brought to Duluth. and when
once within the city limits quick
The city is absolutely quiet, and the
negroes were jailed without half a
dozen people knowing they had ar
rived.
The National Guards men sent here
with General Rhinow have their rifles
stacked in front of a hotel on Su-
perior street. The tank company on
guard at the county Jan Is uolh- l,-
inforced by marine guards, the latter
having been called out this after
noon. Five hundred home marine
and state guards will be. Under arms
here tonight. No order had been is
sued up to 2 p. m. recalling the
downstate guards to. Fort Smelling.
Duluth. June 1e.-virtually normal
conditions prevailed today on the
Duluth business streets over which, a
mob of 5000 persons surged last
night, sweeping the police from pow
er and seizing and lynching three
negroes held in connection with an
attack on 17year-old white girl.
When two companies of Minnesota
an early hour after a special train
trip from St. Paul, they found only
a damaged police station and Uttered
streets as visual evidence of the
mob's activity.
Under personal command of State
Adjutant General w. F. Rhinow, the
124 men and six officers went into
temporary camp; preparing to patrol
the streets, if necessary, to guard
against any eventuality that might
arise as an aftermath of the mobs
riot duty. Captain w. P. Townsend
commands Company H of Faribault,
and Captain w. A. Miller heads Com
pany | of Long Prairie.
Available records today showed on
ly one previous lynching in Minnesota,
but this had not been confirmed In
official sources. Twenty years ago, ii
this county near Mountain Iron for
attacking a girl.
Mob Rules Two Hours.
For at least two hours. the mob
ruled, only relinquishing 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 al
a circus ground Monday night. The
negroes were attached to the circus
as roustabouts. The mob held a mock
guilty and acquitted the other three
who today still were in the hands OF
the police.
The three convicted" negroe,
banged within a block and half Of
the police station, the mob hootinE
down pleas of two priests that the
law be permitted to take its course
1t took three starts to hang the frs,
negro, as the rope broke the first two
times.
After the mob had dispersed early
today, the police cut down the bodies
of the negroes, which had not beer
mutilated. The authorities did moi
expect any further trouble today, and
expressed themselves doubly sure o.
this view of the presence OF tbs
| guardsmen.
The injuries suffered by eight po.
licemen and a newspaper man in the
brickbat and fire hose attack on the
Lolice station were said to be t.lvia
An investigation of the action Of
the mob will be made. it was under
stood today, but just what form this
{ investigation would take had not beer
determined when the ggardsmer
reached here.
Protecting Others.
Duluth, Minn., June IA report
received here early today from Vir.
ginia was to the effect that ter
negroes were being rushed In auto
mobiles to st. Paul guarded D!
deputy sheriffs to be placed in tn.
Ramsey county Jail for protection. A
score Of automobiles CARRYING mem
bers of last nights mob had been re.
ported on the way to Virginia IRON
Duluth in In effort to seize ssIothel