Grand Jury in Georgia Indicts Five Lynchers -- September 17, 2022

Norwich Bulletin, 02-September-1922

As we saw last month, the Saint Paul-based Northwestern Bulletin was an African-American owned newspaper. On September 12, the four identified lynchers were tried and found innocent. 

GRAND JURY IN

GEORGIA INDICTS

FIVE LYNCHERS

Five Prominent Whites Indicted

For Lynching John Glover

In Monroe county.

BONDS ARE PLACED FROM

S1,000 TO $3,000 EACH

Mobbers Oveprowered Sheriffs to

Lynch Prisoner -- N. A. A. C. P. Starts Probe.

New York, Sept. 1 -- Five prominent white men of Macon, Ga. have been indicted for lynching John (Cocky) Glover recently by the Bibb County Grand Jury, according to an announcement made here today by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Glover was lynched in Monroe County, Ga., after he had shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Walter C. Byrd who was attempting to place Glover under arrest.

The five men indicted are among the most prominent men in Macon. Herbert Block, one of them, is manager of the Hotel Demsey, the leading hotel in Macon. H. L. McSwain, another of the men indicted is president of the Southern Co-Operative Fire Insurance Co.

N. Unice is a merchant and Guy Jones is a city fireman. The fifth man indicted was unnamed as he had not been located, having fled from town. Bond was set at amounts ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 each. Other indictments are expected to follow.

The indictment charging rioting read in part:
"Block, McSwain, Unice and the other party, did unlawfully and with force and arms together with persons unknown to the grand Jury do a certain unlawful act of violence to wit: take from William Branan, a deputy sheriff, and from J. L. Mullally, a deputy sheriff, a certain prisoner lawfully in charge of these officers, John Glover alias Cocky Glover, for the purpose of mobbing and lynching Glover, and did in a violent and tumultuous manner, after taking Glover in charge transport him across the line between Monroe and Bibb counties for the purpose of lynching and killing Glover."

The N. A. A. C. P. Is carefully following these indictments to see if trials and convictions follow, or if the indictments are not to be pressed as has been the custom in the few cases where lynchers have been indicted in Southern states.