Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01
ATTACK SUSPECT
IS SLAIN BY MOB
CoIored Youth Is Wounded
Fatally in Battle at
Oklahoma Jail.
~ the Associated Press.

9y the Associated Press.
CHICKASHA, Okla, May 3l.-Lynch
law today exacted the life Of Henry
Argo, 1s-year-old colored youth charged
with attacking a white woman.
A mob Of more than 1000 men and
boys, which stormed the Grady County
jail internationally throughout the night
and battled National Guardsmen, in
flicted fatal injuries on him before he
was removed to . hospital at Okla
homa City, where he died this after
noon.
A bullet fred by an unidentified
member of the mob pierced Argos brain
as he was Gagged in his cell.
Later, when it was believed the mob
spirit had subsidized and spectators were
permitted in the jail, he was stabbed
near the heart by G. w. Skinner, huS-
assaulted.
Six Guardsmen Are Injured.
Six members of the Chickasha Ar
&ilIery battery Of the Oklahoma Nation
aI Guard suffered minor injuries from
missiles thrown by the mob. Several
eitisens were injured.
Skinner and three other members Of
the turbulent crowd were arrested, but
were released later without bond.
3. r. Holding, county attorney. an
nounced after Argos death that an in
Guest would be held Tuesday. Gov. w.
J. Holloway, who had advocated frm
dealing with the mob while the attack
was at its height, detailed J. Berry King,
attorney general, to the task Of assisting
Holding In the investigation.
Demands Prosecution.
The governor said he would insist
upon Immediate prosecution, so law
and order might be upheld"
"The people of that community and
avery other In the State must under
stand that law and order must take
their course" the governor said. Be
csuse 1t Is violated once does not war
rant citizens taking the law into their
Ovn hands. Immediate and vigorous
prosecution will be demanded by me.
"The Guard will 60 as strongly as
necessary to protect life and property"
with Skinner as q leader, the mob
assembled early last night after Argo
had been arrested and identified by Mrs.
Skinner as the man who she said had
attacked her in their little dugout nome
o mile from Chickasha.
Deputy sheriffs repulSed the first adj
vAncee on the Jail. As the mob grew
more menacing, local National Guards
men were ordered out by Charles F.
Barrett, Oklahoma adjutant general.
Using battering rams and sledge
hammers, about 100 men crashed In
the steel door of the Jail just as the
National GuardSmen arrived in truck,
clearing Q path with high-aimed ma
chine gun volleyS.
Tear Gas ROuts All.
Drawing side arms. Capt. E. r. Smith
and Lieut.. H. @. White kept the lead
eFT from storming the second floor.
where Argos cell was located, but
earlier q lone rioter had gained access
20 the upper corridor and had fired
point blank at ArHo, neither shot TAX
Ing effect.
with the arrival Of more 0uardsmen,
the mob was driven from the jail. Capt
smith and his 30-odd men held the be-
gie9ed structure until skirmish, IN
which tear gas bombs were thrown.
The fumes drove out the GuardSnen
md rioters alike, mpmentarily. The
mob permitted the transfer Of other
prisoners to the city jail.
Rioters cut light and telephone wires.
6,1n9 br1ckbats, nred the National
Guard truck In front Of the building,
and ct least dozen times attempted TO
Get fire TO the jail.
Rioters, seeking clubs and levers, tore
water pipes from the interior Of the
fan, lOosing o food 70 add to the con-
fusion.
skinner collapsed On the jail lawn
this afternoon. He was taken to hos
pital, where physicians said they be-
heved he had been overcome by fatigue.