The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-14

ognized us. The boys said they
wouldn't make no complaint. Smith
said, What about the girls?' Then
we dragged one of the girls out of
the car and she came out clawing.
I'VE lined them up and started
to frisk them. Smith jerked out a
pistol and fired three or four times.
Then we had to shoot them all. We
knocked them down and put them
in the back of the car and Oliver
drove back to Ypsilanti with us.
I'VE got some gasoline while Oil
yer waited a little way off with
Wheatley's car and the bodies. On
the way back one girl groaned, so
we hit her with a wrench.
1--WE was scared they were not
dead, so we took rocks and beat
them on the heads until we was
sure. Then We drove the car off the
road and set fire to it. We went
right by the Lore home after we
had killed those folks, with the
bodies in the car"
The Lores and Wheatleys were
neighbors. The girls had been visit
ing in the community.
Oliver accused Blackstone of at
lacking one girl.
Blackstone attacked Anna May
Harrison while I stood guard with
a gun. Then he ordered the Gold
girl out. She said she would rather
die first. Die, then Blackstone
said, and shot her.
Boy Dies Fighting
Lore rushed Blackstone, fighting
furiouSly, and he shot him, and
Wheatley, and the other girl. Lore
got up after being shot, and Black
stone hit him with stone. Then
we bundled the bodies into the car
and drove away"
Smiths statement was practically
the same.
AS the prisoners were taken from
Ypsilanti Jail, the mob again at
tackled. Two hundred state police
and fifty deputy sheriffs bludgeoned
their way to a waiting car, using the
butts of their service revolvers.
They sped toward Ann Arbor, the
mob following, and shouting lynch
them, burn them"
AT Ann Arbor, the men we're
rushed into the Jail, manacled to
deputies, and literally dragged
through the crowd, an armed wedge
in front of them and a guard
around them.
Rushed to Courthouse
Jay H. Payne, justice Of the peace,
was waiting in the jail for the pre-
liminary examination. The Jail,
frail small brick structure, admit
tedly would not Withstand a force
full mob attack. Officers decided to
rush the confessed slayers to the
courthouse.
Police and guards formed again,
rushed toward a waiting automo-
bile, dumped two prisoners into the
car and rushed to the courthouse,
evading the mob which formed at
the Jail.
Police shot over the mob on ar
rival at the courthouse. Tear gas
bombs were exploded.
Blackstone was speeded to the
courthouse in another car after the
mob's first rush. The police car
drove directly over the lawn of the
courthouse to the door. Swinging
clubs let the law into the building.
Guardsmen Called Out
There each prisoner was called on
for brief testimony before Circuit
Judge George w. Sample. There
was little difference in their stories.
The crowd, meanwhile, remained
around the courthouse. National
guardSmen were called out to as
siSt state troopers and deputies in
the rush from the courthouse to
state prison here.
Harry Bennett, chief of the Ford
Motor Company service men, drove
his car to the steps of the building.
The prisoners were rushed out into
his car after sentence, then started
toward Marquette via Jackson.
Tear gas held the crowd back.
The prisoners arrived here at
10:45 p. m. central time).