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LYNCHES' NEGRO
SLAYER OF NOAH FRICK PUT
TO DEATH-HUNDREDS OF
SHOTS FIRED INTO BODY OF
WILL ALLEN-REMAINS LEFT
BEHIND ..

BEHIND
Chaplin, Aug. 24.-Will Allen, ne
gro about 60 years old, was shot to
death by mob of about $50 men
two miles from Chaplin at 2 o'clock
this afternoon for the killing of
Noah F. Frick a highly respected far
mer, late Tuesday. Immediately af-
ter MIR. Frick had been shot, a posse
was formed and search for Allen be-
gum. He was known to have gone in
to swamp after the shooting and
all last night and throughout today
until Allen was found crouching in
a ditch, the search was kept up:
Though armed with a Winchester
rifle, the weapon with which Mr..
Frick was killed, Allen made no ef-
fort to resist the officers. He came
out of the ditch with his hands up.
Heber L. Meetze, found Allen in a
ditch about ten feet wide and eight
feet deep. The negro was hidden by
underground. Officers Foy of New
berry county and Rural Policeman
Koon of Richland county took charge
of the prisoner. They were Joined
Immediately by Sheriff Roof of Lex
ington and several other officers and
private citizens. These were on their
way to. their cars in which they in
tended to take the negro to the peni-
tentiary for safe keeping when the
mob with masks on their faces took
the negro from them. Allen was led
quarter of a mile AWAY and killed.
An inquest was conducted later in
the afternoon by Coroner Weed of
Lexington. The verdict declared
that Allen came to his death from
gunshot wounds at the hands of un-
known parties.
Late today the body of Allen was
still where it fell. Negores are said
to have declared their intention to
let it remain unmolested.
Hundreds of shots were fired into
Aliens body, the head and chest be-
ing largely shot away, while the
entire body is literally shot into a
shapeless mass.
Aliens rifle was Jammed, and but
for this people here believed that
members of the searching party
might have been shot. One cartridge
had been snapped but failed to ex-
plode. The rifle then had refused to
eject the snapped cartridge.
Allen had with him a bag con-
tanning a pone of corn bread and a
glass of jelly. He bore a bad repu-
tation in. the community, even with
his own race and is said to have
once been tried for killing another
negro.
Coroner Weed this afternoon also
held an inquest for the killing of
Mr.. Frick, the verdict of the jury
being that Mr.. Frick came to his
death from gunshot WOUNDS at the
hands of Will Allen.
The funeral of Mr.. Frick will be
held at Mt. Hebron Lutheran church
Thursday morning at II o'clock,
conducted by the Rev. J. NJ. Senter.
Interment will be in the church
yard.
Deputy Sheriff H. C. Oswald stated
today that the report printed in the
morning papers to the effect that
Allen had remained on the porch of
his home for several hours after the
shooting yesterday afternoon with
a gun in his hands defying the Off
GERS was incorrect. Mr.. Oswald says
that he arrived on the scene in about
an hour after the shooting and that
Allen had already left the house
when he got there. R. W. Eleazer,
T. O. Stoudmire, J. L. Eargle and
, George Hitler made the same state
ment.