Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-20
Twenty Wounded and Two
Seriously When Crowd
Crosses Dead Line"
TWO WOMEN SHOT
e.
Man Sought Colcred Man-Suspected
of Criminal Assault On School
Teacher.

Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 2O.-More
than 20 persons were wounded. two
seriously, last night, when deputies
guarding the Knox County Jail fired
or a crowd which had crossed a
dead line, with the purpose of de-
manding Frank Martin. negro held
az a suspect in a criminal assault
upon a county school teacher.
All of the wounded are white. :.
Two are women. Deputy She riff
Charles Lewis was wounded in the
army by return fire from the crowd
Although 'the machine-gun COM
pany of the One Hundred and Sew
enteenth Inantry, Tennessee Naton
al Guard, was on duty at the jail,
the soldiers did not open fire.
Following reports that the school
teacher had identified Martin a.
her assailant, crowds gathered in the
vicinity of the Jail, which was guard
ed by national TuarlSmen anl s3Un
started down the hil.on Main stree:
leading to the Jail. They were turn
ed back twice by police.
Gradually about 200 men and
nOES dppFOacneu tlc Jan. '''tiiS -
eral hundred other persons, manG of
them women, IN The COURTHOUSE yard
looked dowr urpr the scene. AZ
they came within 100 cce Sheriff
Gaze stcnpc ',rde" ar arc light and
demanded that they disperse. He
gave warning that an imaginary line
between two telephone poles should
not be crossed.
As dozen men passed tEase
poles the Sheriff picked up shot
gun and fired over the heads, of ihe
crowd into the air. Four deputies
who were with him then fired two
voleys. Two men in the court
house yard and two or three IN the
street fired ccvolvers in reply.
The shooting then became gene
raj. deputies firing rapidly.
Many Of the loads Of buckshot
fired by the officers and intendes to
90 about TIE heads Of the crowd m
the street went among spectators IN
the courthouse yard. One or Tore
Of the officers a; the jail opened fire
with rifles and revolvers also, az
scme suffered wounds from bullets
Of large caLibre.
In the courthouse yard scores
threw themselves to the ground to
escape the hail of bullets coming IN
that direction, while the crowd IN
the street ran back, panic Strlcien,
and the deputies charged, firing aver
tne heads of the crowd and driving
al! of them back to Gay street, a
block from the jail.
Barnstable. Mass, Aug. pa
Sheriff Irving l.. Rosenthal late asst
night asked for State troops to help
guard the county Jail here, where
three negroes are held on charges OF
highway cobbery and assault upon
a Young white woman. He had re-
ceived report that party of ne
cro2s was being organized at Onset
10 come here and try to free the
prisoners.
The request for troops was re-
ccived ait tie summer camp OF the
Second Field Artillery, Massachu-
setts National Guard. at West Barn
stable. and efforts were Immediately
made 10 obtain the approval OF Brig
adler General Sherburne.
The sheriff sent an investigator
to Onset 10 determine whether the
report of a rescue party was well
founded.
The prisoners, John Dies, Benja-
min Gomez and Joseph Andrews,
were in separate parts Of the IAN
last night. Fifteen men were on
guard to assist the sheriff as pre-.
caution against possible renewal OF
the attack made or the jail early, to-
day by a mob which threatened to
lynch the negroes. Late last night
there were few persons In the v'cin-
ity of the building.
At midnight 10 artllIerymen ar
rived from She National Guard sum,
mer camp at West Barnstable and
were drawn up about the jail. "our
machine guns were set up.
The Sheriff. just after Their ar
rival, received word from a County
Commissioners at Onset that two al-
tomobile loads of negroes were our
ing the negro district in that village
in an effort . gain recruits Tor q
dash % the Barnstable JAN. onset
on frcrol hprp on the