Troops Guard Negro Shot by Alabama Mob
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Title
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Troops Guard Negro Shot by Alabama Mob
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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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The Marshall News Messenger
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Publication Place
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Marshall, TX
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Publication Date
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August 14, 1933
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Transcript
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TROOPS GUARD NEGRO SHOT BY ALABAMA MOB
Survives Bullets Which Took Lives of His Two Companions
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Aug. 15. (IP).-- A company of 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, 28, who was taken from the sheriff Saturday night with Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, and A. T. Harden, 16, also negroes. The bodies of Pippen and Harden were found riddled with bullets in a roadside ditch early Sunday. Clark was found in a shanty last night. He was in a serious condition from two bullet wounds. Authorities believed the mob left him beside Pippen and Harden thinking he was dead and that he freed
