TENNESSEE MOB LAW
GUARDS PREVENT LYNCHING.
[by CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]
SHELBYVILLE, December 20.
Extraordinary resistance on the part of the authorities against the efforts of the townspeople here to lynch, a young Negro, who. was being tried on a charge of assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl, have resulted in the death of two members of a mob and the serious wounding of five others by the machine gun and rifle fire of the National Guardsmen.
The Guards disguised the prisoner in a Guardsman’s uniform, with his face hidden by a gas mask, and they spirited him from the courthouse building, themselves fighting successfully a rearguard battle with the mob, whose barrage of stones and repeated rushes were insufficient against the troopers’ bayonets. The mob later set fire to the Courthouse,- which seemed to be doomed to destruction. The injured number seven.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1934, Page 7
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