New-York tribune., 1921-08-20
Bay State Mob
Besieges Jail
To Avenge Girl
Guards Doubled and Armed
With Riot Guns to Pro
tect Three Negroes Held
for Cape Cod Assault
Bullets Check Crowd
Sheriff Asks Aid of State
Troops: Governor Makes
Plea TO Avert Lynching

BARNSTABLE. Mass. Aug. 10. -
Every precaution has been taken to-
night to prevent successful attack
upon the county Jail by a mob which
seems bert upon getting the three
cspe Verde negroes locked up there
charged with attacking Gertrude Butler,
twenty-one, Of Buzzard's Bay, and rob-
hing her escort. William Eldredge. High
Sheriff Rosenthal has had the guards
about the jail doubled and armed with
riot guns. rifles and shotguns. Tonight
he asked for state troops.
The most reassuring feature to-day
was the proclamation issued by Cover
nor Cox 1t said:
ITO the Men and Women of Ware
ham:
"The whole commonwealth is
shocked beyond measure by the re-
ported treatment OF two of your re-
spected citizens. Every good citizen
will insist that those who have COM
mitted such barbarous outrage shall
be brought to justice.
Governor Warns Mob
"The whole power of the common
wealth will be extended to apprehend
and punish those who are guilty of
such an atrocious crime. 1t cannot be,
however. that any man or group of
men shall be permitted to take the law
into their own hands. The eyes of the
nations have recently turned to Ply
mouth. your neighboring town, as the
President of the United States paid his
tribute to those sturdy men and women
who established civil liberty under or
dered government. The nation has re-
joiced with US of Massachusetts in our
great heritage. Let US of to-day be
worthy inhertors of a glorious past.
Let US, in spite of outraged feelings,
remember our duty to uphold the law.
Let the older counsel the younger
Let reason rule. Let not the fair name
Of Wareham be stained by the act of
an angry mob. However deep our sym
rathy for the innocent victim of despic-
able savagery, let it still be to the
honor and glory of the good people of
Massachusetts, that they have conf
dence in the courts. that they believe
in orderly procedure"
A second attempt to get the negroes
was made early to-day, when a GROVE
Of $50 men surrounded the Jail, NUT.
tsring and shouting Lets get them!'
The crowd seemed more persiste nj
upon entering the Jail than that which
yesterday surrounded the Warehar
lookup 1t became so insstent that
the jail guards fired several shots ir
the air as warning. The shots hae
the effect of hating the crowd. and II
slowly melted away as daylight ap-
preached z
Joseph Andrews, sixteen, the third
man arrested, was held in $4,000 bail
when arrai gned before Judge Swift in
Barnstable court to-day He pleaded
not guilty. His case will come up here
August 20, when the two other men
John Dies and Ben Comes, also will be
gwen another hearing.
Victim Identifies Men
The girl has identified all three OF
tne men as the trio who attacked her.
detail of men from the new state
eonstabulary came to the Upper Cape
to-day to search for the stolen auto
mobile in which the girls attackers
were travelling when they held up the
couple Monday night as they were on
their way to Buzzard's Bay from a
dance at Bournehurst. The car is be-
heved to De hidden along one of the
roads in Buzzard's Bay or in a Gran
perry bog near the spot where the girl
was attacked.
Search also was continued TODAY for
sae revolyers which the men are said
70 have used in subduing Miss Butler
and ner male escort Examination OF
.ne quarters occupied by the three men
IN unset failed to disclose any weapons