The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
ArmWOOd'S Killers
Named by DAILY"
Writer in Maryland
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that Deputy Sheriff Norman Dryden
who only yesterday stated to the
Coroner's jury that he could not
identify single person in the mob,
told Ralph Matthews, city editor of
the Baltimore Afro-American, Negro
newspaper, that one Shelburn Lester
OF Princess Anne, was the man who
attacked Capt. M. johnson of the state
troopers, which was swiftly followed
by the mob's drive into the Jail.
Spencer also identified the 19-year
old youth who cut off Armwood's
ears with butcher-knife to the
applause of the blood thirsty mob,
as one Craig Clarkson of Princess
Anne.
States Attorney Robins Gave OK.
Among those mob leaders who
have also been identified Is one
John Hines. definite address as
yet unascertained, but supposed to
be a resident Of the Eastern Shore
where the lynching took place."
Hines Is believed to be kin of the
woman whose arm Armwood Is al
legged to have grabbed. The owner
of the Princess Anne radio store
name not yet ascertained) Is said
by an eyewitness to have got the
keys to the Jail from the Sheriffs
daughters. Since the town has only
one radio store, Patterson said there
should be no difficulty in establish
ing his identity.
In the amazing affidavit telling the
story of the lynching and the mob
spirit that Immediately preceded it.,
Spencer states:
with my own ears, I tell you,
/ heard him, States Attorney John
B. Robins, three hours before the
lynching, tell part of the gathering
crowd of mobsters: Boys, if there's
going to be trouble / don't want to
be here. Let your conscience be
your guide. You won't find any op-
position against you tonight when
you go after him. And then Robins
left Princess Anne, going back to
Crisfield; that's why he wasn't
there during the numbering of the
boy. That's why"
Spencer, in his affidavit, then tells
that he is chef by trade, at pres
ent unemployed, who had spent IA
years in the U. s. Infantry. He had
gone into the World War as a private
and came out captain, And Divi-
sion, G Company, Colonel House,
Commander.
Judge Duer Knew Of Mob's Plans
Three days before the lynching he
left Washington to visit one James
Morrison, friend Of his living two
miles outside of Princess Anne.
While the mob was gathering to
lynch the Negro, Captain Spencer
pleaded with his friend to loan him
his revolver to hold off the lynch
ers. His friend, according to the
affidavit, replied: You're crazy to
interfere. It's suicide If you try to
stop them"
II know why Morrison wouldn't
let me have the gun," Captain Spen-
Ger continues, "he was one of the
leaders Of that mob that night"
Spencer continues in his affidavit:
Ddu6
Duer and all that bunch knew
they were going to lynch Arm
wood that night. Everybody In
Princess Anne knew it. / heard it
from every group on the street I
saw. 1 was standing by a group of
which Daugherty was a member at
noon Wednesday, and 1 saw Carl
Henderson, who lives on II. r. D.,
No. 2, Box 81, Princess Anne, when
he came up TO tbs bunch and said:
Wen have bigger Iynching here
than when Williams was Iynched
two years ago. and Sheriff Daugh-
erty heard every word. Any num-
Der OF other people told the sheriff
the same thing. I myself heard
him reply to one such statement:
What's one Niger more or
Iess?'
L left Princess Anne and when I |
'et"rned q few horrs later I met
ne Commander of the American