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Title
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National Guard Protects Negro
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Author
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N/A
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Publisher
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Denton Record-Chronicle
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Publication Place
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Denton, TX
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Publication Date
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August 12, 1933
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Transcript
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National Guard, Protects Negro, TUSCALOOSA Ala., Aug. 15, -National guardsmen were mobil-, Ized today to protect a wounded, negro who escaped a lynching party, which killed two others indicted, with him in the slaying of a white, girl. The negro. Elmore Clark, was, found yesterday in a shed at the, home of a negro in Vance. Sheriff, R. L. Shamblin, who had been lead-, ing a search since the lynching Sun-, day, said Clark was frightened and, suffering from three wounds in his, thighs. He told the officers he was glad they had come, but other than, to state members of the mob were, masked he could give no details. Clark with Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, and, A. T. Harden. was indicted in the, staying of Miss Vaudine Maddox,, 21, in Tuscaloosa County. Pippen, and his parents repudiated attor-, neys retained by the International, labor defense when his trial was, called on August 2, and the case, was postponed indefinitely., Threatened violence against the, negroes in Jail here led Sheriff, Shamblin to attempt to remove them, to Birmingham for safe keeping., Early Sunday two carloads of mask-, ed men hemmed in the car in which, the negroes were hand-cuffed to-, gether and forced the officers to, surrender them., Several hours later the bodies of, Pippen and Harden, riddled with, bullets were found about a mile, from Woodstock in the woods. How, Clark escaped and made his way to, Vance, officers did not learn.
