The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-04-18
ROWLING MOB ASKS
DEATH OF SLAYER
AFTER CONFESSION
Louisiana Guards Called Out to
Protect Man Who Murder.
ed Young Girl

shreveport, Ia, April 10.-(R-
Soldiers Of Louisiana guarded Z con-
fessed girl-slAyer Wednesday from any
attempted renewal Of the mob vio-
lenco that swirled for hours Tuesday
night around-and even inside Cad
do parish's million dollar court house.
The mob, growing in numbers dur.
Ing the night until near midnight It
numbered nearly 5000, was after Fred
Lockhart, 3S-year-old salesman Of
artificial butterflies. Earlier in the
night he had confessed to Sheriff T. r.
Hughes that 1t was he who attacked
and killed l6-year-old Mae 0iffin.
Stragglers from the mob milled
about the Jail early Wednesday morn
ing, and there were reports that many
men from outside the parish were on
their way to Join them. Officers were
confident, however. that any further
attack could be stopped by the two
companies Of national guardsmen,
hurriedly called to duty by Governor
q. &. Allen when the advance Of the
mob threatened to overpower the
sheriff's resistance.
Sheriff Hughes said Lockhart con-
fessed to Turing the girl from the
home Of her widowed mother and
Staying her. Small crowds and groups
Of men about the jail, enrsged BY the
murder Of the girl, became unman.
ageable after the confession was
made known.
Mob Numbered ut 5000
The crowd grew by hundreds into
an excited throng estimated to num-
Der nearly 5000. Mobsmen, cursing
and shouting, took possession Of the
basement and first floor Of the COM
bination courthouse. jail, threw bricks,
swung clubs and cut fire hose until
the national guard from Shreveport
began assembling shortly after mid
night. Lockhart was in the Jail on
the seventh floor.
BY two o'clock the rioters inside the
building had been driven to the out
side and the bowling mob began
breaking up.
Under orders from Governor Allen,
Colonel Hollingsworth Barrett. COM
manding Company +, l56th infantry
Of Shreveport, took command Of the
situation, releasing the tension that
had existed in the siege laid against
some three score parish Officers, city
police and special deputies who COM
manded the stairway leading to the
second floor with machine guns, pis-
tolls and tear bombs.
Girls Demand Action
AZ the mobsmen outside the court
house swirled about In disorder early
in the night they were spurred into
q furious assault ON the courthouse
entrances by two girls mounted on .
truck who shrieked that you men are
4 bunch Of dirty yellow towards" u
they did not seize the prisoner from
the jail.
A crowd broke into the first floor
with q heavy railroad rail but police.
men, headed by Chief D. D. Bauer,
fought them with bare fists and made
them drop the rail.
Deputy sheriffs, police and 70 or 50
special deputies guarded the sheriff's
office where the stairway leads up to
the second floor with machine guns
and pistols and held the throng back
there with desperate threats to shoot
to kill.
Sheriff Hughes reported that Lock-
hart had confessed to Staying the girl
last Thursday after obtaining her
mothers consent for her to attend
his III wife. Her body was found SUM-
day In q wooded section near Gross
Lake on the outskirts Of the city and
was mutilated from stab wounds.