People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Try to Lynch Dr. W. L. Ryder. [ARTICLE]

Try to Lynch Dr. W. L. Ryder.

Talbotton, Ga., April B.—Dr. W. L. Ryder, who assassinated Miss Sallie Emma Owens Sunday night, was removed to Columbus Tuesday. The guard around the jail is still on (juty there. Sixty mounted men came to lynch Ryder, but cool heads appeased the party. At a mass meeting Judge Bobb was requested to call a grand jury Immediately in the Superior court.