Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-10
LyNCHERS QUELLED
BY TEXAS TROOPS;
15LEADERS SEIZED
Three Blocks of Buildings
Burned After Mob
Parades Body.
ATTACKER DIES IN FIRE
RAzlNG COURT HOUSE
800 More Guardsmen Arrive in
Sherman After Disorders-Nine
Injured in Clash.
ny the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHERMAN, Tex, May 10.-Driven to
cover by a driving rain, a mob which
took the life of George Hughes, colored
late yesterday, burned Grayson County's
100000 court house and destroyed three
blocks of buildings in the colored section
today, disbanded and National Guards
men apparently had the situation under
control.
Fifteen men, charged with melting a
riot, mad been arrested. Nine men, one
of them a captain of National Guard
troops, were injured.
Until heavy rain began falling early
today, the mob, in groups Of rs and 80,
stood on street corners, estimated to
number about TOO shortly after mid
night. The mob gradually dwindled
away as the rain and daylight came.
Gov. Dan Moody. at Austin, said he
would not declare martial law unless
National Guardsmen were unable TO
ouell disorders In cooperation with civil
authorities.
Additional Guard troops, numbering
40 and commanded by Col. Lawrence
e, MCGEE and Col. L. S. Davidson, ar
rived shortly after am. today. More
than so out-of-town police officers and
Rangers under command of Capt. Frank
Hammer and NJ. T. Oone Wolff Con-
zaullas assisted the Guardsmen.
Parade Town With Body.
The struggling remnants of the mob
which last night blasted open vault
In the ruined courthouse it had burned
earlier in the day and then paraded the
town with the body of George Hughes
were standing around watching the
embers of numerous incendiary nres
when the additional troops arrived
They soon scattered. Hughes had been
imprisoned in the court house vault by
officers who sought to save his he.
A quota ofBO or 10 guardsmen from
Dallas. who earlier yesterday had been
helpless to stem the orgy OF violence,
was given a respite from grueling hours
of battling with the Infatuated citizens
bent upon revenge upon Hughes, Wnc
confessed assaulting a young farm VIE
near here.
with the dawning OF day the guards,
men and rangers rounded up several
hundred colored persons, who had taken
refuge In brush thicketS on the OUT
skirts of Sherman. The frightened men
woman and children were herded back to
stores ia the city opened for business
and few colored workers reported Ior
duty.
Several persons, both soldiers and
rioters, were injured in clash before
The mob formed yesterday afternoon
when Hughes was to go to trial. Mem
beers demanded him from guarding ON
GERS, and when refused, set flre to the
courthouse in which Hughes was IN the
custody of officers.
Locked Up in Vault.
Hughes was held prisoner in a vault
On the second floor of the court house.
It was a strong vault, with two layers
of steel and concrete barrier be-
tween him and the mob. Unable to
reach the prisoner, mob leaders de-
vengeance cost the county $4,000
court house. The building was in.
sured for $100,000 but officials said
that because of the cause of fire II
would not be possible to collect the
insurance.
The fire started early In the after
noon. Night came with no let-up IN
rioting. The mob refused to believe
the sheriff, who pledged that Hughes
had been left in the vault, after being
given the choice of staying there OF
running for his life.
Rebellious whites decided to storm
the Jail, believing Hughes had beer
spirited there after the court mouse
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