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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
QUIET REIGNS IN MARION
AFTER NIGHT OF HORROR,
CLIMAXED BY F4ANGINGS

formation W. Q. Miller turnkey
said.
Shipp was dubbed and beaten
on the way to the courthouse lawn,
one-half block from the jail. His
clothes we're torn from him and a
rough cloth draped over his nearly
nude body.
AS the bodies dangled bare five
feet from the ground, souvenir
hunters tore bits of clothing from
them, one youth climbing the tree
to cut off short end OF the rope
hanging from the neck of one OF
the victims.
Witnesses said Smith begged for
mercy as. the rope was placed
around his neck. They added that
as he was pulled up he grasped the
rope to prevent strangling and he
was lowered again by the mob so his
hands might be tied. Before being
pulled up again he was stabbed.
Phone Warning Sent
Chief Lindenmuth said he had
heard rumors all day Friday that
something might happen" Hun
dreds of citizens, including several
well-known business men, were
seen congregating in the vicinity
of the Jail, conversing, he said.
Sheriff Campbell said he had no
warning of trouble until he received
a, telephone call from Mrs. w. T.
Bailey, wife of a Negro physician
Of Marion.
He rushed to the Jail door, he
said, and found the mob already
collecting. Marion police were
called, he added, and reinforced the
four deputies. .
Both the sheriff and police chief
we're evasive when asked if none OF
the members Of the mob had been
recognized by officers.
1--WE were SO busy and excited try
ing to stop that mob that we couldn't
think of names, but we noticed
faces that seemed familiar" they
agreed.
The mob leaders had taken pre-
cautions against removal OF the
prisoners. Sheriff Campbell said
he found two tires fiat on one side
of his car, and one fat on another.
The air had been let out through
the valves.
The mob was we'll armed, Bert
White, deputy sheriff, declared.
"'Giye us the keys they de-
manded as one flashed a gun on
me-" White related. Il told them
Search me, I haven't got the keys
Then they said, All right, we
don't need them. Well break in
And they did"
Cameron today told reporters he
first held the gun during the hold
up, but became frightened and gave
it to Shipp when he recognized
Deeters.
What are you robbing me for?
I know you.' Deeters said" Cameron
claimed.
At this point, Cameron is alleged
to have confessed, Deeters was
marched through a cornf1eld to the
bank of the Mississinewa river and
was shot.
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/. in the naddened crowd urged them
on.
About twenty police officers and
deputy sheriffs inside and outside
the jail suffered as much from the
several hundred tear bombs thrown
as did the mob. AS the gas
brought tears to their eyes, those
IN the front ranks seized the Jail
lawn hose, spraying water around to
counterfeit the fumes. Some of the
gas bombs were caught by rioters
and hurled back into the jail
through broken window panes.
Door Beaten Down
After battering down the outside
jail door with a heavy sledge, using
a pipe for a crowbar, about a hun
bred men rushed into the jail,
smashed the bullpen door and cell
block locks, and began searching the
six wings Of the three-story jail
building for their victims.
The four Negroes, three held in
connection with the Deeter Staying
and a fourth, Robert Sullivan, 10,
now also at the reforn1atory for a
series of holdups, were locked in
separate wings to facilitate ques-
tioning and to prevent their con-
,versing.
Smith was the first man seized by
the mob.
Robert Lock, white, held for wife
and child desertion, told a vivid
story of the mob's visit to the first
floor, west cell block, where Smith
was found.
Smith Is Nervous
He said Smith apparently was
nervous and talked but little during
the day.
"He played several games Of cards
with the boys" Lock related. While
the crowd roared and howled outside
the Jail, Smith turned to me and
asked me to boost him into metal
tube. two feet by eighteen inches,
through which extend levers con-
trolling cell doors. I helped him
hide in the tube, near the ceiling.
William (Spuds) Bernaul, Negro
prisoner in the same cell block, but
not connected with the crime, was
the first man seized by the mob.
When they started to drag him from
the room, other prisoners whispered
to the mob, pointing out Smiths
hiding place, to save the innocent
Bernaul.'
Smith did not speak when the mob
seized him, Lock said.
"He just walked out without
flinching and met them like man. "
Smith first was hanged to the bars
on the east side Of the jail. Wit
nesses said he probably was dead
before the hanging, as he had been
beaten cruelty and stabbed. Later
his body was lowered and dragged
down the street by the mob and
hanged again on the courthouse
lawn near Shipp.
Shipp was found on the third
floor in the nut cage" movable
cell ordinarily used for the Violent
" insane. He had been placed
there for sweating" to obtain in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
Mob MenaceS
Police From
Indianapolis

Leaders of the Marion lynch
ing mob Thursday night threat
ened to overturn the Indianapolis
police department emergency car
if any attempt were made to re-
move third Negro suspect from
the local Jail to point of safety,
according to Indianapolis police.
Equipped with machine guns,
automatics and tear gas, the local
squad answered the call for aid,
stayi.>, on duty in Marion until
a. m. The emergency car was
driven by John Gish and manned
by Sergeants Irwin Landers,
Walter Coleman and Arthur
Hueber and patrolmen Harry
Bridwel and Chester Thinner
man.
Unknown to the mob, the pris-
oner was removed to the state re-
formatory at Pendleton by the
sheriff from Huntington, Ind.
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death of two victims and somewhat
Mortified at it's own act, did not
attack again.
At midnight word arrived at the
sheriff's home, which is in the jail.
that an indignation" meeting was
being held in YOUNGSTOWN" that
section of Marion inhabited by the
city's 1900 Negroes.
Officers found between 400 and
500 Negroes meeting in the open,
listening to speeches in which the
sheriff was criticised for ordering
his men not to shoot when the mob
attacked the jail. The meeting was
dispersed.
Bodies Left Hanging
Coroner Stout arrived from his
home at Upland early this morn
ing. He went Immediately to the
courthouse and announced he would
cut down the bodies of Shipp and
Smith. About 1000 persons, mill
ing about the lawns, unable some
how to drag themselves away rom
the vicinity of the two naples and
their grewsome decorations, de-
manded that the bodies be left up
and they were.
Early today, Sheriff Campbell re-
fused to comment, further than to
declare he believed the situation was
under control. Backed by the adj
ditional officers, he believed he could
prevent further violence and said
there appeared no immediate danger
of race riot developing.
Marion is a city Of about 10000
population.
Sheriff Defends Action
eff a shot had been fired, three
or four hundred persons, including
women and children, undoubtedly
would have been killed" Sheriff
Campbell said in reply to criticism
of his orders not to shoot.
Dozens of the ringleaders openly
brandished revolvers, and one shot
would have been the signal for
SIdCSA1ESL' -
At the height of the disorder, the
mob, including lookers-on, num-
hered nearly 10000, Police Chief Lew
Lindenmuth said.
Women, girls and children were
numerous in the surging throng,
screaming, clapping their hands and
urging those in front of the mob to
'kill those '1iggers.'
AS the two Negroes were being
hanged, women and children
laughed and clapped their hands, it
was reported.
Mob Well Organized
Leaders of the mob we're well or
ganized, calm and collected and
knew just what they were about,
Campbell said.
He and Prosecutor Harley F.
Hardin attempted to dissuade the
ringleaders from breaking in the
Jail door and were listened TO for a
few moments. The leaders fell back
until the roars of those farther back
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
DEDICATION SLATED
Basket Dinner to Be Held at
New Chapel.

Dedicatory services will be held
for the new Franklin Road Chapel
building, Franklin road north of
the National road, Sunday. The
chapel will be conducted as a
branch of the Tuxedo Park Bap-
fist church.
A basket dinner Sunday will be a
feature of the dedication. The Rev
c. M. Dinsmore, Indiana Baptist
convention superintendent; the Rev
T. j. Parsons, editor of the Baptist
Observer; the Rev. Olive MCGUIRE,
executive secretary of the Federated
Baptist churches of Indianapolis,
will be speakers during the day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
PASS FORMER
PLANE RECORD
st. Louis Filters Confident of
Setting New Mark.
Enited Press

BIZ United Press
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8. Forest
O'Brine and Dale Jackson piloted
their endurance monoplane, Greater
st. Louis. into the 'home stretch
today in their attempt to set new
sustained fight record.
With but five and one-half days
remaining between them and the
record, the former holders of the
refueling title passed their 434th
hour in the air today at Oil.
After surprising their former rec
ord of 420 hours Thursday night
the fliers dropped notes saving they
were confident of beating the pres
ent record of $50 hours, held by the
Hunter brothers of Sparta, Ill.
In note to the ground crew
O'Brine Thursday night directed
that one of his automobiles be sold
in order to help defray expenses OF
the flight.
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had my son back, that's all would
ask"
Surrounded by their remaining
family of six sons and one daughter,
the grief-stricken parents today
arranged funeral services for the
slain youth.
Rites will be held at 2:30 Saturday
from the Fairmount Friends church.
There is no Apostolic church here.
Burial viii be irr Park cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08

Services will be conducted by the
Rev. william Milford of Detroit.
The youth was wounded fatally
and his girl companion, Miss Mary
Ball, 10, of Marion, was assaulted
Erutally, when the Negroes drove
up as Deeters was repairing a
punctured tire, the youth related
on his death bed, the father said.
Young Deeters died Thursday after
noon from three bullet wounds in
fiicted By the bandits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08

God will do the judging" the
mother sobbed when informed of
the mob's act. II wouldn't have had
this happen for anything. I don't
believe in killing.
I'VE are members of the Apostolic
faith and We are taught it is wrong
to kill"
II can not believe the lynching
was right" the father said. The
Lord says, Forgive them for they
know nDsswhat they do. If only I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
KIDNAPPED AND ROBBED
Filling Station Attendant Is Victim
of Two Bandits. ".

kidnapping Samuel Earnest, 90, Of
1927 West Michigan street, Hi-Way
filling station attendant at l70l
West Michigan street, two bandits
robbed him of $40, after driving him
to Michigan and Lansing streets,
Thursday night.
A Negro grabbed large butcher
knife from a meat block in a Stand
ard store at 801 South Capitol ave-
nue. Thursday to rob James Combs,
manager, 901 South Illinois street,
of $25.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
Parents of Youth Slain by Negroes Dpouce Lyncbig by Mob

Jail, battered down the bars and
lynched the two Negroes, they said.
They first learned of the lynch
ings, the father said, when a friend
Of the family. Miss Esther Haw-
kins, called at their home at 2
a. m. today.
Claude, as he lay dying from his
wounds, told us he was shot when
he recognized one Of the holdup
men," the father said.
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Mrs. Deeters said she did not be-
lieve her son and Miss Ball were
engaged, unless they bad become
betrothed recently.
The youth had been employed at
the Superior Body Works at Marion,
the father said.
The parents we're at their coun-
try home al night Thursday, de-
spite reports that the father had
been seen at the Grant county jail
shortly beforsthe mob stormed the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
BY HEZE CLARK
Times stan Correspondent

PARAMOUNT. Ind. Aug. g.
i Though grieving over the brutal
murder of their oldest son, Claude
Deeters, "a, by a trio of Negro
holdup men Wednesday night. Mr..
and Mrs. William Deeters. living on
a farm two miles west of Paramount.
today refused to condone the lynch
ing Of the Negroes at Marion by q
Rob Thursday night
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
Raid Nets 1s5 Quarts Beer

Pu Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind. Aug. 8.-Police
raided two residences on the Acre,
Polish settlement, and confiscated
165 bottles Of home brew beer and
two quarts OF alcohol One man
wa arrested for the alleged sale Of
intoxicants. The other resident was
not at home when the raiders en-
tered his house, and he has since
been fugitive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
DRIVER KILLED IN CRASH
Woman Injured Severely as Bus
Rams Parked Truck.
Z United Press

BIZ United Press
SOUTH D, Ind, Aug. 8. A
truck driver was killed and a woman
bus passenger was injured severely
today when a Greyhound bus
crashed into the rear end Of a
parked motor transport seven miles
west of South Bend.
Valentine Witterodt, %, Detroit,
sleeping on the trailer Of the trans
port, was killed instantly when the.
bus crashed into the parked vehicle,
telescoping the truck and trailer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
TRULA MAE SEAL Is
BEAUTY, RACE LEADER
Finals Will Be Held Sunday Night
at Walnut Gardens.

at Walnut Gardens.
First place in the initial round OF
the four-day beauty contest under
way at Walnut Gardens was held
by Miss Trula Mae Seal, Indian
apolis, today, following the first
preliminary Thursday night.
Audrey Foley, 204 North Walcott
street, won second place, and Ger
trudc Ruscl1haupt, New Palestine,
third. The three will enter the
finals Sunday night.
Winners of the recent Delco-
Remy contest will come from An
derson for tonight's contest. Judges
will be Ted Brown, Electric League
secretary. and Bromley House of
Radio Station WFBM. The contest
is statewide.
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The reason for her ability to yodel
at the age of IA months is not
known, but has been demonstrated
to asgreat number of residents of
this city.
Epitaph in Lakewood, N. j.
In Evergreen cemetery is the
lleadstone of David G. Croly, who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
FIRE FIGHTER TO RESCUE
offers IS for Police Motorcycle
Only to Have Offer Refused.

81 United Press
ALEXANDRIA. Ind. Aug. g.
Rather than see another depart
ment Inundated. Herbert Wharton.
fireman, made the 0nlv offer at an
auction sale at which the Alex
andria police department was at
tempting TO dispose of motorcycle
However. Wharton's offer was only
IS and the policemen decided not
10 accept Il.
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died Dec. 20, 1889. The Meant
well, tried little, failed much"
epitaph was composed by his wife,
Jennie Croly, who was a writer
and an ambitious suffrage en-
thusiaSt.
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Friday: Torquatus' Drinking Feat
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05
McGehee-Justice
Marriage Ceremony Performed al
Calvary Church in Fletcher

George McGehee was married
to Miss Peggy Justice. daughter
of Mrs. E. B. Justice, yesterday
(Tnursday) afternoon at Cal
vary church in Fletcher. This is
the church Of which the brides
grandfather, Rev. w. S. Bynum,
was rector for many years.
Among those VINO attended
the ceremony were Mrs. Claude
Ramsay, Mrs. Graham Ramsay,
Miss Alice Jones, Miss Barbara
Gray Henderson, and DR.. Eliza
beth Arnstein and Miss Mar
garet McGlashen of New York,
Miss Suzanne Bynum, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Cheshire, Mrs. Mary
Polk Beard and Jack Beard.
The maid-of- honor was Miss
Suzanne Bynum; the brides
maids, Misses Barbara Gray
Henderson and Katherine By
mum; the best man, James
Cheshire; the groomsmen, Will
liam H. Sumner, Jr., and Jack
Beard.
Immediately after the cere-
mony a reception for members
of the family and intimate
friends was given by the brides
mother at the w. H. Sumner
home. This home was built by
the groom's parents and was his
birthplace.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05
Stages of a Century Ago

Colonel Fred A. Olds has an
article in the Prison NeWs, the
journal edited by the inmates Of
the State Prison in Raleigh,
about the stage coaches of 1925.
(Note: Colonel Olds is not an
inmate; he is an outside con-
tributor.)
A century ago public stages
were limited to so miles a day
by government edict. The fare
was 8 cents a mile. Of the
schedules in this region Colonel
Olds writes:
"The route began at Fred
ericksburg, Virginia, which the
stages left at 5 a. m., every Mon
day and Saturday; they ar
rived at Greensboro, N. c., every
Sunday and Monday at night
fall; arrived at Pinckneyville, S.
c., every Thursday and Sunday
at 8 a. M; arrived at Powell
ton, Georgia, every Saturday and
Tuesday at night-fall; arrived at
Milledgeville (then the Capital) !,
Georgia, every Sunday and Mon
day. The total distance, be-
tween Fredericksburg and Mil
ledgeville was 586 miles. The
run through, each way, was
made in eleven days.
"Stages ran as follows in con-
nection with the above line;
Fredericksburg to Washington
City, So miles, daily by stage and
steamboat. On the South West
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05

ern line, going Southwark, the
first town reached in North
Carolina was Milton, Caswell
County, the next Caswell Court
House (Yanceyville), third Len
OK Castle, fourth High Rock,
fifth Greensboro, sixth James
Town, seventh Lexington, eighth
Salisbury, pinth Concord, tenth
Charlotte, eleventh Catawba
River.
What were called Gross
Stages at Milton came twice a
week between Warrenton, n. c.,
and Danville, Va; at Green's
boro twice week between Raj
|eigh and Salem by way of Chapel
Hill and Hillsboro; at Salisbury
once a week between Cheraw. S.
c., and Asheville, N. c., and
Lincolnton; at Yorkville, S. c.,
between Columbia, S. c., and
Lincolnton, N c., once each
week"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05
The Career of COstes

This sketch Of the career of
Dieudonne Costes, the French
aviator who flew from Paris to
New York this week, is given in
the New York Herald Tribune:
"Costes has been flyer since
he was seventeen years old. He
now is thirty-six. He was born
on November 4, 1898. When
Farman, Voisin, Santos s-Dumont
and Bleriot were making their
early experiments, he was an en-
gineering student. Soon after
Bleriot made his flight across the
English Channel, Costes began
flying at Etampes, France, and
was granted a pilots license in
1919.
His World War record is bril-
liant, but typifies his disregard
for discipline and authority. He
entered the aviation branch and
was sent to the front as ma
chine gunner in plane. A
breach of discipline brought
about his transfer to the infan-
try and he served time in the
front line trenches. After three
months of this he was reinstated
in the air force. During this lat
ter period he flew 817 hours,
was cited seven times and at
tanned the rank of captain. AS
a war flyer he was victor over
five enemy planes and seven
balloons.
after the war he became a
commercial pilot, with spec
tacular flying as his chief stock
in trade. In earlier flights he
usually chose as his co-pilot
Joseph Lebrix, who accompanied
him around the world, but they
severed relations after return
ing to Paris from the world
flight, and Maurice Bellonte has
been Costes' aid more recently"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Notice of Summons by Publication
Lewis Trice

The defendant above named will
take notice that a civil action entitled
as above has been instituted against
her in the Superior Court of Orange
County, and that the complaint there
in has been filed setting forth a cause
of action for an absolute divorce on
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05

the ground of Ave years separation,
and the defendant will take notice
that she is required TO be and appear
before the undersigned Clerk Of the
Superior Court Of Orange County. at
his office IN Hillsboro, Orange County,
North Carolina, within thirty days
after the completion of service Of this
summons (to-wit within thirty days
after the 2nd day Of October, 1930>
and answer or demur to the complaint,
or the relief demanded therein will be
granted.
This the 2nd day of September. 1880.
A. w. KENYON, Clerk
Superior Court of Orange County.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05
Mr.. BlOcksidge Arrives

F. C. Blocksidge, for the last
six years with the Appalachian
Electric Power Company, has
come to Chapel Hill to be a
member of the business and
sales staff of the University
Consolidated Service Plants. His
wife and two children will join
him here later.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05
The Burden Bearers

The Burden Bearers Circle of
the Kings Daughters will meet
next Tuesday, September 9, at
a o'clock at the home of Mrs.
r. B. Lawson on East Franklin
Street. The members are asked
to be present, since this will be
the first meeting since June, and
there is much business to be dis
cussed and attended to.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05
Miss Reynolds Class

Miss Ernestine Reynolds an
nounces that her class in express
sion will open next Monday, Sep
tember 8. There will be instruc-
tion for pupils of all ages. She
will be in her studio at the High
School cafeteria annex for the
registration at the opening OF
school.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05
Mrs. Latta in Durham

; Mrs. Jenny Latta, who was in
Norfolk this summer with her
son, John, is now with her
daughter, Mrs. Allen Stainback,
at the Washington Duke hotel
in Durham. Within a week or
so Mrs. Stainback will return to
her home in New York. Mrs.
Latta's plans for the winter are
not yet settled.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1930-09-05

will be with the Alexander Gra-
hams until they go on to Bir-
mingham.
Mrs. Joseph Archer came in
yesterday from Hendersonville
to visit Mrs. Julia C. Graves.
DIR. Isaac Manning and Miss
Mary Manning returned yester-
day from Vale Crucis.
Mrs. Dora MacRae Elliott and
her daughter, Miss Virginia Ell
lott, have moved into No. l Gra-
ham Court apartment.
The T. H. Raney family have
returned from Mallett street to
their former home on Pittsboro
fstreet.
DR.. Louis H. Webb, his wife,
and his daughter Katharine
were here from Washington, d.
&C., last week. His brother and
sister, Alex Webb of Rocky
Mount and Mrs. O. B. Moore of
New Bern, were also here. Their
father father, j. d. D. Webb " etbb, has has rettuf
from Hot Springs, Ark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grady Leonard
| were in Rocky Mount Monday
and Tuesday.
! Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Mattox
will be back home today from
visit to relatives in South
Carolina.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Bristow
and their two children from
Norfolk, Va, spent last week
with Mrs. Bristow's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. |. w. Pritchard,
and returned home Sunday.
Miss Laura Ward and Mrs.
Id. J. Sparrow have gone to At
|lanta to visit Mrs. Sparrow's
son.
The H. G.. Baitys have come
back home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Best
spent Monday at Bayboro on the
lcoast. They made big catch
of fish.
! Mrs. w. Merritt Allen and
| her three sons have gone back
| to Dillon, S. c., after visit to
| Mr.. and Mrs. Neal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher Green
are to have an apartment at the
Archibald Henderson home this
winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Falkener,
iwho have been occupying the
Metzenthin home during the
1summer, will move Monday to
1.-The McDuffie cottage, No. l Cot
tage lane.
Miss Mary Miller Falkener
has returned to her school duties
lin High Point and Miss Sara
Falkener, who was graduated
from the University in June, has
gone to Wilson to teach French
and English in the high school.