Lynching No. 9

Lynching No. Q

Last week Clarence Boyd, automobile accessories dealer of Emelle, Ala., accosted Esau Robinson, local Negro, about a long-due account on a storage battery. Negro Robinson refused to surrender the battery, promised to come immediately to the Boyd store with what he owed. Instead he appeared with his father Tom, his brothers Oliver and Jacob, all armed, and bashed Clarence Boyd over the head with a bottle. Thereupon Grover Boyd, uncle of Clarence, drew a revolver from his nearby automobile, opened fire on the Negroes. They shot him dead; Jacob, Tom and Oliver escaped. A hurrying crowd seized Esau Robinson, strung him to a tree--ninth lynching on the 1930 roll, Alabama's first this year.

Later, a posse of 300 Alabamans searched for Tom and his sons at the cabin of Tom's brother John. John fired on them, killed white Charles Marrs. The posse killed John, burned his cabin down. Two carloads of other Alabamans went by train to Emelle to help find Jacob, Tom and Oliver. On their hunt they shot dead in a small railway station at Narkeeta an unidentified Negro who refused to be searched and fired at them. They also shot and killed Mrs. Jessie Dill whose husband drove hastily past them after he had been told to halt.

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