Georgia Continues Atrocities; Black Man is Mob Victim -- August 14, 2022

Northwestern Bulletin, 12-August-1922

The Saint Paul-based Northwestern Bulletin was an African-American owned newspaper. 

GEORGIA CONTINUES

ATROCITIES; BLACK

MAN IS MOB VICTIM

Guards Placed Around County

Jail to Protect Men Charged

With Killing Conductor.

RIOT FEARED WHEN MAN

IS MOBBED NEAR HOLTON

Judge Announces ('all for Special

Session of Grand Jury to

Examine Lynching.

(Associated Negro Press.)

Macon, Ga., Aug. 11— "Lynch Law Must Go."  They are still at it in Georgia, which seems destined to sink to much  lower levels in the scale of civilization.

An extra heavy guard was ready here to be thrown around the Bibb county jail to protect three men held in connection with the murder several months ago of A. L. Allgood, a street car conductor.

The guard was assembled early when the police received word that several hundred persons had gathered in Central City park and were planning an attack on the county jail. Later reports said, however, that the crowd had dispersed  without making any sort of demonstration.

FEAR RACE RIOT

The precautionary steps followed a day of excitement in Macon and uneasiness on the part of the authorities, who expressed fears of a serious race clash growing out of the lynching at Holton, near here, of John Glover, charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Walter C. Byrd. Glover was taken from an Atlanta train at Griffin and shot to death.

WILL PROBE LYNCHING

Judge W. E. H. Searcy of the Monroe circuit announced that he would call a special session of the grand jury at Forsyth for the fourth Monday in August to investigate the lynching of Glover.