Scene Quiet

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Scene Quiet

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The Selma Times- Journal

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Selma, AL

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The Rain began falling during the morning and there were few spectators about the courthouse as the guardsmen, called out early today when Clark was brought to the jail here, paced back and forth. All offices in the courthouse were ordered closed and no persos were allowed to enter without special permission. The grand jury is composed of Seaborn E. Deal, prominent capitalist and lumberman; J. C. McGarity, salesman; Arzie E. Hughes, merchant; J. Virgil Abernathy, carpenter; Fred C. J. Schoel, tinsmith; Walter H. Pearman, barber; Houston S. Park, salesman; John D. Pearson, Jr., carpenter; Polk Rushing; farmer; E. H. Turned, carpenter; Hugh Fairless, pattern maker; Theo H. Meacham, mechanic; W. Lewis Hutchins, farmer; Harvey B. Kuykendall, farmer and chairman of the county board of education; John L. Holley, farmer; Lewis Causey, Jr., and Joe D. Hosmer, farmer. The negro was found late yesterday in a shed at the home of another negro at Vance. Sheriff Shamblin, who had been leading a search since the lynching Sunday, was notified of his presence by the homeowner and a negro physician. Frightened and suffering from three wounds in his thighs Clark told the officers he was glad that they had come, but other than to state that the mob members were masked, and he could recognize none of them, the negro gave no details of his escape. I. L. D. Repudiated Clark with Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, and A. T. Harden, was indicted in the slaying of Miss Vaudine Maddox. 21, in rural Tuscaloosa county. Pip- ( pen and his parents repudiated at- 1 torneys retained by the International Labor: Defense when his trial was 1 called on August 2, and the case was i postponed indefinitely. Threatened violence against the negroes in jail here led Sheriff i Shamblin to attempt to move them e 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. I Several hours later the bodies of Pippen and Harden, riddled with i te Rain began falling during the morning and there were few spectators about the courthouse as the guardsmen, called out early today when Clark was brought to the jail here, paced back and forth. All offices in the courthouse were ordered closed, and no person were allowed to enter without special permission. The grand jury is composed of Seaborn E. Deal, prominent capitalist and lumberman; J. C. McGarity, salesman; Arzie E. Hughes, merchant; J. Virgil Abernathy, carpenter; Fred C. J. Schoel, tinsmith; Walter H. Pearman, barber; Houston S. Park, salesman; John D. Pearson, Jr., carpenter; Polk Rushing; farmer; E. H. Turned, carpenter; Hugh Fairless, pattern maker; Theo H. Meacham, mechanic; W. Lewis Hutchins, farmer; Harvey B. Kuykendall, farmer and chairman of the county board of education; John L. Holley, farmer; Lewis Causey, Jr., and Joe D. Hosmer, farmer. The negro was found late yesterday in a shed at the home of an- other negro at Vance. Sheriff Shamblin, who had been leading a search since the lynching Sunday, was notified of his presence by the homeowner and a negro physician. Frightened and suffering from three wounds in his thighs Clark told the officers he was glad that they had come, but other than to state that the mob members were masked and he could recognize none of them, the negro gave no details of his escape. I. L. D. Repudiated Clark with Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, and A. T. Harden, was indicted in the slaying of Miss Vaudine Maddox. 21, in rural Tuscaloosa county. Pip- ( pen and his parents repudiated at- 1 torneys retained by the International Labor: Defense when his trial was 1 called on August 2, and the case was i postponed indefinitely. Threatened violence against the negroes in jail here led Sheriff i Shamblin to attempt to move them e to Birmingham for safe keeping. Early Sunday two carloads of masked men hemmed in the car in which the negroes were hand-cuffed to- gether and forced the officers to surrender them. I Several hours later the bodies of < Pippen and Harden, riddled with i

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