Negro Escapes lynching; Two Others Killed
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Negro Escapes lynching; Two Others Killed
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Newspapers
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N/A
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Publisher
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The Daily Advocate
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Publication Place
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Greenville, OH
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Publication Date
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August 14, 1933
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NEGRO ESCAPES LYNCHING; TWO OTHERS KILLED
By the United Press Tuscaloosa, Ala., Aug. D.-A company of the Alabama National Guard surrounded the county jail today to protect the negro victim of a bungled lynching. Threats were circulated that a mob would storm the jail. The negro was Elmore Clark, who was taken from the sheriff at night with Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, and A. T. Harden, 16, also negroes. The bodies of Pippen and Harden were found riddled with bullets is a roadside ditch early Sunday. Clark was found in a shanty last night. He' was in serious condition from two bullet wounds. Authorities believed the mob had left him beside Pippen and Harden thinking he used his arm that he freed himself from a hand-cuff and crawled to the shanty. The Tuscaloosa company of the National Guard was 'ordered mobilized bx Governor B. M. Miller at the request of County Judge H. B. Foster. The three negroes were charged with the murder of Vaudine Mad-dox, 18, white. When they were arraigned. attorneys for the Inter-national Labor Defense sought to serve as counsel, but were unsatisfied by Judge Foster. The attorneys were threatened by a mob and authorities, fearing for the negroes safety, ordered the prisoners transferred to the stronger Birmingham jail. Saturday, enroute to Birmingham, the Sheriff was waylaid by a mob that seized the three negroes. The negroes were handcuffed together when taken. The bodies of Pippen and Harden still were handcuffed together when found. Judge Foster said it was "miraculous" that Clark had survived and managed to free himself. The shanty where Clark was found was occupied by another negro who was attending to him. A negro doctor, summoned from Tuscaloosa, asked for police protection on the journey. That led to Clark being found and transferred to the county jail.
