The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-07-27
South Carolina Mob Storms Jail In Attempt 10 Lynch I've
Women Cry
Rape When Date
Is Revealed
Two Brothers
Spirited Away
BY Sheriff

MONKS CORNER. SCAMP
Armed with shotguns, pistols and
divers weapons. an angry mob oil
whites. placed at about 800 people
from Berkeley and Charleston conn-
ties. stormed the Berkeley jsn
here few nights ago in an at
tempt TO wrest Alchrist tPompey'
Grant and his brother, Edward.
from law Officers after the two had
been arrested in their homes at LIB
erty HIN in Charleston county and
charged with criminal assault upon
"a 15-year-old white girl The
mob gradually dispersed when "
was revealed that the men had not
been lodged here and their where
abouts were secret.
The Grant brothers We're taken
into custody last wednesday morn
ing following an all-night vigil by
posse OF more than 200 whites
through woods and swamps near
North Charleston. The search be-
gan when county officers were call
ed by white man who had been
beaten by colored man and who
alIegedIy had run OF with a white
girl The girl. firmly stated by
colored residents OF the section 10
he between rs and 20 years OF
age" declared she was assaulted
By "a coiored man but declared
she was unable 10 recognize him.
The white man who called county
officers on the other hand. stated
ne could identify his assailant and,
II is stated. led officers TO the
Grant home Wednesday morning
Both men declared they were In
nocent but the car used by the men
I'm the alleged attack was discover
ed TO be the property OF Edward
Grant. 1t was found abandoned
and wrecked after an obvious
chase.
Residents OF the section declare
the case is typical one OF white
women crying rape as soon as
their relations with Negro men
are unveiled. The girl and another
white woman are said TO have been
in the habit OF walking out from
North Charleston on the Yeeman
Hall road and having dates with
two colored men. Their white men
friends. suspicious aroused. are
said 10 have followed them and as
they got into the parked car, 10
have accosted "Pompey' and an
other colored man and In an en-
suing fight. the male friend OF the
Younger woman was severely beat
en-. the women fed and then Grant
with the car. No trace has been
found OF the other white woman
or the colored man who WAS her
companion on this early morning
rendezvous.
Many declared that Alchrisl
Grant was in the car but that the
other man was not his brother
Edward. Snch seems plausible In
that Edward WAS released FRIDAY
and returned home. Scores Of 9th
or men have been detained and
questioned. One such victim re
ports that he wac placed in "th'
sweat box AT the Charleston police
station and whipped TO confess
the charge. Later he was released
All whites have been ordered u
move out OF the Liberty hill soc
ton and forbidden to walk through
II after dark. Negroes caught OF
the streets after dark are takeI
into police custody.
The Young woman steadfastly re
fuses TO identify Alvhrist Grant Al
her assalant. Just the same h
is being held at an unnamed des
tination pending formal arraign
ment here as soon as public senti
ment cools That the posse an,
mob that stormed the Jail mean
business was expressed the nigh
OF the vigin Several white men
armed with various weapons. toll
colored man in the Liberty hill
section that we've got 10 do some
thing about these n---s VIII!
down in Alabama a few weeks az,
a mob OF n-s threatened TO lyncl
white man" The white press q
the affected areas have dropped
copy OF the happening like a ne
potato. II had first played up III
event as an assault case hit wheI
II perhaps secured the real sior.
1 preferred not 10 use II.