Negro Escaped From Lynch Mob Found Wounded
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Negro Escaped From Lynch Mob Found Wounded
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Newspapers
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N/A
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Warren Times Mirror
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Warren, PA
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Publication Date
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August 14, 1933
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Negro Escaped From Lynch Mob, Found Wounded. National Guardsmen sent to protected wounded negro found in shed after fleeing from masked mob. Glad to see police. Tuscaloosa Alabama Aug. 15. National guardsman were mobilized 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 late yesterday in a shed at the home of a negro in Vance. Sheriff R. L. Shamblin, who had been leading a search since the lynching Sunday, 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 slaying of Miss Vaudine mad-dox, 21, Tuscaloosa County. Pippen and his parents repudiated attorneys retained by the international labor defense. When his trail was called on Aug. 2, and the case was postponed indefinitely.
Threatened violence against the negros in jail here led Sheriff Shamblin to atempt to remove them to Birmingham for safe keeping. Early Sunday two car loads of masked men hemmed in the car in which the negroes were hand-cuffed together 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.
