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RICHMOND .VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1929
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PRICE. FIVE CENTS.
VOLUME XLVI, NO. 9.
Colored Man Horribly Lynched in Mississippi
MED TO DEATH!
MOB LAW PARAMO'JNT-THE OFFICIALS PERMIT GREAT CRIME.
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Virginia Electors Vote for the Rep. Candidates
No Such Event Before in Old Dominion in Fifty Years.
KCME. MISS. I'fC. 31.—Charley
Shepherd rauf-ifc^iV and abdiivt-*i,
wi i burned on a gaso.ii 0-s dike i
pyre here tonight. ••
After mutilating his body ancl
firing several shots into it, a mob o:
several hundred men placed the man
on a pile of logs, threw gasoline
over it and set it afire.
.Shepherd died cursing his killers.
John Osborne. Associated Press
staff correspondent, the first news
paper man to reach the scene, said
the lynching occurred about eight
P. M.
Charley Shepherd, he was informed
admitted he had killed J- D. Duvall
employee of the State prison farm
at Parch man and abducted his IS
year old daughter. He took all the
blame, absolving two bunk mates
who had been linked with the crimes
The lynching took place about
twenty-live feet from a publ.c road
and when Osborne arrived an hour
later, the body was still on the pyre.
He was told by persons at the scene
that it would be left there.
SURRENDERED TO WOMAN...
Miss Laura Mae Keeler who cap
tured Charley Sheppur.d colored
murderer abductor, told the Memphis
Evening Appeal by telephone from
Cleveland. Miss, that a mob had j
seized him near that town. .. ..
. .‘‘We met part of a mob before we
got to Parchman. turned around and
tried to beat them through a round
about way to the county jail at
Cleveland*” Miss Keeler said. . ... |
‘ We traveled fast in spite of the
bad roads but just outside of Cleve
land a mob of about one hundred
people caught us. They were nice
to me all right but determined to
get the Negro.
..‘‘They took Shepherd out of the
car and a lot more of them gathered
around and carried him away Miss
continued. ‘‘I felt that I
had done all w'thin my power to
deliver him sn-’ely into the hands o!
the law so I left. I did not want to
st>e a lynching.”
ALONE VXD UNARMED WOMAN
TAKES FUGITIVE. ..
Gunn :son Miss. Dec. •'■1—lTn
armed and alone save for the com
panv of the brother of the man she
sought. Miss Laura Mae Keeler to
day captured Charley Shepherd col
ored murderer and abductor while
hundreds of men combed the thick
ets for him. .. I .. • • ••
Miss Keeler received word this
morning from Shepherd’s brother
Tom who worked on her place that
the conv ct was on her plantation.
“I went down to the cabin with
Tom” she said “and Charley said
he would give up if I would go with
him.
..“He told me if I wouian t go ne
■wouldn't g've up but would take a
chance on fighting. I searched him
but he had no weapon. He told me
he did not have anything except a
rif'e wh'rh was on the bed in the
cabin. He had left with the rifle and
sx cartridges and still had them.
“We got in a car and started for
Parchmm. but met such a mob that
we tried to make it to Cleveland to
turn h’m over to the sheriff, but a
milo and a ha’f from Cleveland they
/took h*m away from us."
PRISONER IS RETICENT.
Miss Keeler said Shepherd did
not talk much. I asked him why he
did it and he said “I don't know . j
He told her Miss Keeler said “Missus ,
I’m sorry I done, because you might
have gotten me out sometime.’ He ,
thought. Miss Keeler said that she
might aid in obtaining his release
from the State prison farm where j
he was serving a twenty year sen- j
tence for manslaughter and from ,
which he escaped early Friday after ,
killing J. D. Duvall,, carpenter
sergeant at the farm and abducting
his twenty-eight year old daughter
Ruth who made her way to a prison
camp Saturday.
Miss Keeler “didn't have time to ;
count’ the men in the mob that took J
Shepherd from her and several men
who were seeking to get him safely
in jail but estimated the number at
fifty.
PLEADS FOR PROTECTION.
“Charley kept pleading for me not
to leave him but I couldn’t help. I
felt sorry for him. I have a heart
and don’t believe in mobs. I wanted
the law to take its course.
..“The last I heard Charley say was
‘Miss, for God's sake don’t leave me
please don’t let them take me.”
Rewards totaling one thousand
dollars were offered for Shepherd's
capture.
Killed by Truck-driver.
Henry Bingliam, colored truck
driver for the Richmond, Va. News
Leader struck and killed with the
truck William Armistead Locke, a
highly respected white citizen Satur
day morn.ng December 29, 192* at
about ! 1:35 o’clock.
C. B. Homan (white) bus driver
2227 Idlewood Avenue said: ‘I left
J?eividere and Grace Streets at 11:29
and was at Lombardy and Monument
Avenue at 11:35 A. M. 1 dschavgetl
passengers at that corner and pulled
in behind the truck. I let the truck
puss nr . It was going across Mon
ament Avenue. The first time I saw
tii s irn was after he was struck
and wc ; hurled in the air.
He was hurled towards the curb
of the grass plat. I did not see the
c.-uck hit him. I believe the truck
hit him but do not know what hit
him. i did not know whether he
had fallen and had jumped off the
truck. He was thrown four or five
ftet in the a r. He fell near the
curbing and rolled to the curbing.
The tiuck stopped as soon as pos
sible. ! would say that it stopped
in about thirty feet. It pulled a
little to the right. The truck driver
stopped the truck and then ’ame
lack to the man. He stopped in Mon
ament Avenue. He was on the pro
per side. The truck was going Wc3t.
It wtv, running at about 25 miles
pc- hour when it passed the front
of the bus. I don’t know who was
driving it. The driver was a colored
man. The driver seemed to be
watching the bus to make sure he
would drive in safely. I did not see
the truck strike Mr. Cocke ... •
William Nelson Sii vv . raarsuau
Street test-'flert before Coroner James
M. Whitfield Monday morning De
rembe • 31st. “I am janitor of the
rirst Fnglish Lutheran Church, S.
IV corner Monument Avenue and
I ombardy Street. I was on the
church steps, cleaning them off when
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President-elect Herbert Hoover
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11 heard f,n awful noise as though
(something was struck. I turned
1 around and raw something in tne
street. I did not think it was a man.
I thought it was something that had
fallen off the truck.
t.r _, trn^k driver hurrying
to the form and I went over there.
The man was ly ng in the Smss !
near tho curbing. But the men in .
the truck got there before I diw. it
was the News Leader truck. Car
C:ime up behind him and he
into it and taken to Stuart Circle >
Hospital. ”
Wile Murders Husband'
Katie B. Drummer, age 22 yearn, of
734 N. Sixth Street is charged with first 1
degree murder. She shot Robert Drum
mer with a pistol several times, and he
was removed to St. Philips Hospital,
where he died December 28, 1928. Her
case was called in the Police Lourt, bat
urday, 29th inst. before Judge H. A.
Maurice. She was remanded to await
the holding of Coroner Whitfield’s in
quest.
DR. HILL AT FIFTH BAPTIST
CHURCH SUNDAY.
Dr. J. T. Hill will preach at the
Fifth Bapt'st Church, corner Harvie
and Cary Streets, Sunday. Jlanuary
6th at 3:30* P. M. He is one of the
greatest preachers and leaders of
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Is urged to be present on time. The
choir of the Second Baptist Church
will furnish music. .. N
VICE-PRESIDENT ELECT ChARLE S CURTIS.
Republican Electors
Vote in Virginia.
For the first time in more wan
fifty years# the College of Electors
for Virginia, Wednesday, January -
1929 cist the vote of Virginia for
the" Republican nominees: Hon.
Herbert. Hoover of Cal torn i a and
diaries Cnrtrs of Kansas for die
offices of > President and Vice-Presi
dent respectively.
Hon. Jacquelin P. Taylor, of
Richmond, President and Hon. Fred
er'ck W. Me Wane of Lynchburg
officiated. The electors were as fol
lows: L. J. Gilbert L. C. Davis
E P. Revercomb George F. Cook
Fred W. Me Wane. J. T. Engleby,
William E. Thomas, B. B. Bowman
J C. Beale, Jacquelin P. Taylor
W. E. Curtis. W. A. Hamilton,
sick but was voted by proxy. ..
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Miss Frances Lewis of 2519 Bain
I bridge Street, who has been sick for
1 the past ten days ;s settle to be out
.again.
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Mosby and
Mr. Raymond S. Mosby. 906 Turpin
Street have been confined to their
home by illness during the past
week.
O. M. STEWARD'S WIDOW DEAD
Mrs. Sarah A. Steward, widow of
-the late O. M. Steward is dead.
She was well known in .this com
munity and was a power for good in
her locality. <
farewell and welcome
SERVICE AT FIFTH STREET.
A big farewell and welcome ser
vice will be held at the F ftli Street
Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at
j:30 o'clock. The welcome will be
extended to Miss Ruth G. Morris
ft-ho recently returned from the
Suelin Mission. Station in Liberia.
Africa. Miss Morris has served two
years in Africa in religious and ed
ucat onal work among the natives
and Richmond will welcome her to
her home here with her parents. Dr.
and Mrs. Charles S. Morris in North
Fifth Street.
At the same service a farewe.l to
Dt. Charles S. Morris, who has com
pleted a very successful pastorate at
the Fifth Street Baptist Church, will
take place. Among the speakers will
be Mr. L. C. White. Rev. and Mrs.
Bcone, Dr. J. T. Hll, Dr. A. S.
Thomas. Musical numbers by the
choir. Messrs. Walter T. White.
Commodore Bennett, Miss Florence
Fields and Mrs. Josephine Graham.
Dr. Gregory A. Galvin will preside
Mrs. Fannie H'cks of Asheville,
N. C. was a recent guest of Mrs.
Mary Crump, 605 Bowe St. She
visited the Shepherds Office and the
Southern Aid office where she met
her son Mr. Frank Hicks.
PRESIDENT POWELL RESIGNS.
..Rev. W. H. R. Powell. D. D.
has resigned the presidency of the
Virginia Theological Seminary and
College at Lynchburg Va. and the
Board of Trustees will np.me nls
successor at a meeting to he held
January 17, 1929.