Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1920 — NEGRO SAVED FROM MOB [ARTICLE]

NEGRO SAVED FROM MOB

Black Spirited Away From Independence, Kan., as Military Takes Charge. Independence. Kan., Dec. 20.—Two companies of state guards arrived here from Lawrence and took ebarge of Independence. Shortly after 6a. in., before the city stirred, Nobfi* Green, a negro, whose arrest two days ago as the slayer of merchant caused threats of lynching and brought about a race clash, was spirited away from the city jail and rushed from the town in an automobile. Green was,in custody of officers from Nowata, Kan.