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Shootings Described
Williams, an employe of Elliott, went into the office of the lumberman December 4 while the latter was talking over the telephone. The Negro fired his pistol into his employer's body and tried to fleje.
Elliott's son saw Williams running sway from the scene of the crime and fired at him. One of the bullets hit the Negro, who, with his own gun, inflicted a wound on himself.
Williams was taken to the Peninsula General Hospital, where a mob of more than 2,000 gathered that night. Policemen stopped the mob at the main entrance, but six of the mob-men entered a side door, dragged the Negro from his bed and took him to the Courthouse green, where they hanged him to a tree.
Witnesses Are Listed
The list of witnesses summoned follows:
G. Murray Phillips, Sheriff.
Charles H. Praitt and Donald A. Parks. deputy sheriffs.
Sergt. M. D. Bnibaker and Patrolman J. C. Peroutka. State police.
Miss Helen V. Wise, superintendent. Peninsula General Hospital, and Miss. Florence S Smith, Miss Helen E. Fisher. Miss Myrtle Wright and Miss Robinson, nurses.
Dr. R. M. Nook, Dr. J. MeFadden Dick, Dr. Creston Collins. Dr. S. H. Hurdle. Dr. Hunter B. Mann, James Handy, Leah Brewing-ton and Jonn Easton. attaches at the hospital
Chief of Police IJ. H. Holland and City Patrolman Samuel C. Broughton. Carl W. Wilton and John M. Goslee.
Ira D. Turner, clerk of the Circuit Court.
John H. Farlow, former Sheriff.
jr. James Gordy, garage man.
P. E. Burroughs, inem*er of the State Legislature.
Hooper S. Miles, lawyer, hanker and City (Solicitor.
Lee Webster Selfe, executive vice-president. bus and freight boat companies.
David J. Ward. State Senator.
Judge B. Urie Oliphant, of the Orphans' Court.
William F. Calloway, manufacturer.
I* Thomas Parker, former Mayor.
John W. Downing, banker.
Reese Gordy. garage man.
W. Arthur Kennerly. former Mayor.
Otho L. Byrd, manager of a telegraph office.
W. C. Thurston, author.
Lee O. Harris, painter.
A. B. Jacques, telephone company official.
J. H. Schramm, merchant.
H. B. Causey, farmer.
Howard Campbell, merchant,
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John J. Thompson, former State patrolman. Arbutus. , _
Detective Sergeants Walter Martin and Gray don L. Ware. Baltimore city.
Jernigan and Conquest were patients in the hospital ward from which Williams was taken.
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