Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — GUARD NEGRO FROM MOB LAW [ARTICLE]

GUARD NEGRO FROM MOB LAW

Brutal Assault on Six-Year-Old Girl May Be Avenged. Wheeling, W. Vs.. July 22. —John Jackson, an ex-convict, was captured at Claysville, Pa., charged with abducting Mary Maurer, a 6-year-old girl of McMechan and of a prominent family. The man is 40 years old and Wednesday night be grabbed the child and kept her on a hill all night, subjetting her to indignities.

An angry mob pursued him. and fifty shots were fired, but he escaped. He was brought back under a heavy guard so prevent lynching and lodged in the MouiUsville penitentiary. Feel-, ing runs here and trouble la feared. ~ ■