People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — Farmers Gather for a Lynching. [ARTICLE]

Farmers Gather for a Lynching.

Centralia, Mo., Sept. 12.—The trial of the negro, Charles Marion, for attempted assault was set for yesterday, but, fearing mob violence, the officers would not assume the risk. Quite a number of Boone and Calloway county farmers were here, many of them armed, and it is reported that a large body of men are marching to Columbia with the determination to take Marion out of jail and hang him.