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Title
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Soldiers Protect Wounded 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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St. Albans Daily Messenger
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Publication Place
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St. Albans, VT
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Publication Date
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August 14, 1933
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Transcript
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SOLDIERS PROTECT, WOUNDED NEGRO, National Guard in Alabama, Mobilize to Save Refugee, from Lynching Party, TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Aug. 15.-(AP), -National Guardsmen were mobilized, to-day 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 Maddow, 21, in Tuscaloosa county. Pippen and his, parents repudiated attorneys 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 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.
