Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-04-19
NEGRO HURRIED TO
JAIL AT LEXINGTON
When Mob At Danville Tries To
= Find Man Accused of Attack
ing Little Boy

|
Boyle county officials exercised
good judgment in removing LII
Glen Jenkins, 25-year-old negro,
accused of completely in the abb
duction and attack upon seven
year old Willie Trimble, last Fri
day night, to the Lexington Jail,
was the belief expressed freely
here today.
| Jenkins was taken through
rear door of the court house after
tie lights had been turned out
and while County Attorney Hen
ry Jackson was voicing plea for
the maintenance of law and or
der.
Sheriff M. J. Farris, Jr., and
four deputies succeeding in
reaching a waiting automobile
with the prisoner, passing four
pickets placed on guard by the
mob at the exit. Five minutes
later the members of the mob
succeeded in forcing the door of
the court house and thorough
search of the building followed.
1.-The negro unquestionably owes
his life to the fact that the mob
was disorganized.
AS the automobile CARRYING the
negro sped toward Lexington, the
mob stormed the court house sew
eral of the leaders openly declar-
ing it to be their intention to
seize the negro and hang him
from the limb of tree in the
court house yard
At the hospital it was said last
night slight improvement was
noted in the condition of the
Trimble child, but that his condi-
ton remains serious.
H. Keith Phillips, 1o-year-o1d
white boy, also held in connection
F. with the crime, continued to re-
ijlate new versions of the attack.
4 He. still insists that the negro at
/ tackled the child and added that
! Ihe now is positive that Jenkins
is the negro. When seen at the
jail Phillips appeared to be daz-
led,
I Phillips took the police to the
spot where. the bucket and jar
carried by the boy at the time he
was, seized, were hidden Yes
Eterday he admitted sleeping in the
barn where the boy regained con-
seriousness. i''', - p
Finger prints found on bucket
and jar are expected to Sup
Iply the next clue toward estab-
fishing the identity of the boys
assailant. Jail attaches said
Phillips reads constantly and that
his literature unquestionably has
been of the lurid kind He ad-
mitted a weakness for movie
thrillers" also.
1t also was learned that officials
told Jenkins, the negro, that
"things are beginning to look bad
and if you are guilty you had bet
ter admit it SO that we may take
steps to protect you.
; In spite of these admonitions, it
was said. Jenkins stoutly main
tanned he was innocent, and his
last statement before being in
carcerated in the Lexington Jail
was to repeat that he was inno-
Icent and to thank the officers for
t having saved his life. Opinion
| here differs as to the negro's part
in the affair, but many citizens
: indicated it to be their belief that
| he is innocent.
Sunday morning before the op-
Grafton was performed on his
skull, Willie Trimble told the
| story of his abduction with great
difficulty.
He was seized by. the negro, hf
said, as he was returning from
n the home of Jesse Figg, a neigh,
Dor, where he had been to del1vel
t milk and eggs. He was carried
: into a corn field and struck on the
s head with hammer. He remem
e bered having been handed over
d fence and being placed i'll sink
e hole about mile from the Trim
: ib1e home. It is believed that th'
:. kidnapper thought the boy wa
dead and hid the. body in sink
Ehole.
Marcus Trimble, father of th'
x boy. is an employe of the South
,-lEern Railway.
s Asserts He Is Innocent