Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
TROOPS NEEDED
ARREST 4 MEN
IN MARYLAND
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What right have you got to COM
here and rule our Streets" a mid
dle-aged man shouted.
The crowd continued to come for
ward and the soldiers responded b,
cutting loose a barrage of tear gas
1t fell back momentarily, but agaiI
advanced. This necessitated anOth
er barrage and this time the GROVE
stayed back. The soldiers maintain
ed their vigil with drawn bayonets
In the meantime, in Annapolis
Governor Ritchie. who has been i'll
was informed of the plight of the
soldiers. He talked TO General Reck-
ord by telephone and was informed
that the situation was well in
hand"
At noon, the movement away from
the armOry was begun and the sol
diers and State patrolmen. who had
accompanied them, bundled the four
prisoners in the busses waiting for
them and moved slowly out of Sal
isbury.
The crowd then began to search
for Attorney General Lane and as he
left, several of the windows of the
automobile in which he was riding
were broken.
Another automobile, mistakenly
believed to be Lanes, was Overtur-
ned. The occupant, who remained
unidentified, protested he was not
Lane as he crawled out.
Two other automobiles were over
. Il IL
Then the crowd moved to the
nearby hotel and demanded of the
management that newspaper re-
pOrters be brought out. Most of the
reporters were sent out by a side
entrance, but several remained I'M
til late in the afternoon when Secre-
tary of State David c. Winebrenner,
3rd, sent an automobile for them.
The part the firemen played dur
ing the demonstration remained
somewhat clOuded by doubt. After
the first burst of tear gas, the fire
men turned their hose on the sold
iers. The fire chief rushed to the ar
mory to explain that he was not re-
spOnsible but that he would try to
stop the trouble.
You'd better" one of the officers |
said, "Or we will"
Fireman explained later that they |
were attempting to keep the gas
fumes from entering the fire house
which was across the street from
the armOry.
The crowd cheered the firemen,
however, and also cheered the fire
men from neighbOring towns who !
arrived during the demonstration.
One eyewitness, Robert +. |
Kniesch, a photographer for the |
Baltimore Sun, said:
Men and boys in the crowd were
picking up gas cans-small tin hand |
grenades-and throwing them back !
at the guardsmen. While this |
sort of pitched battle was going on, |
some of the men in the crowd pulled |
out the fire hose and poured water
over everybody"
AS the soldiers made their way |
back to Baltimore, many of them |
soaking wet and some ill from their |
own tear gas, they took advantage !
of the ride to catch up on their
sleep. They had no rest at all during
the night.
The Princess Anne lynching oc-
CURED on the night of October IS af- |
ter the negro, Armwood, was ac-
cused of assaulting Mrs. Mary Dens-
ton, an aged farm woman of Somer-
set county.
Arrested on the 10th, he was
taken to Baltimore for safe keeping
after mob began a search for him.
He was taken back to Princess Anne
two days later in custody of twenty
State policemen.
On the night of the 18th. the mob
formed rapidly. Tear gas bombs
failed to repeal them and they grad
ually closed in on the Jail. They
roughly pushed aside the officers.
battered down the doors and drag
ged ArmwOod outside.
He was tied by rope to an auto
mobile and when he fell he was
dragged through the streets. His
body was hung to a tree and the
mob then set it on fire. Later it was
to lie on one of the towns
principal corners. ~
An investigation was begun, but {
none of the witnesses called before {
The coroner's jury was able to recall
The names of any of the lynchers.
Lane then began an Independent !
investigation which resulted in find
ng nine alleged members of the I
mob. t
When Robins refused to order the {
arrests asked for, Lane and Ritchie, S
.ogether with several other officials, !
leld secret meeting Sunday night I
Ind decided to send troops. i
The State officials insisted. how
'Ver. the troops did not mean that
martial law was declared.
Those arrested by the officers in
heir early morning trips into Som
irset county were: '
Irving Adkins, 80, Saturday, night {
Ulcers at Princess Anne. j
William H. Thompson, SO, a Prin- c
ess Anne druggist, who had been a v
member OF the coroner's jury con-
ucting the investigation. }
William P. Hearn, of Shad Point. !
trucker. Z
William S. McQuay, of Pocomoke 9
'ity, chain store operator.
Another of the alleged lynchers
1as sought on government coast d
uard vessel and his arrest was ex- G
ected at an early date. Il
The men placed under arrest all +.
Iere taken from their beds during 6
be early hours of Tuesday morning.
Each house was Visited nv a so,tad