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...tree-shaded Marion, Ind., onetime stamping-ground of the Ku Klux Klan, three Negro boys last week were hurried to the Grant County gaol. One of them, Thomas Shipp, 18, confessed he had dragged Claude Deeter, 23, from an automobile parked in Marion's outskirts, shot him to death. Shipp's companion, Abe Smith, admitted attacking Deeter's fiancee, Mary Ball...
...fainted from what he had learned inside. A cry went up. About 75 Fairmounters and Marionites, apparently equipped for the purpose, started a two-sided, business-like assault on the gaol. They battered down door after door, arrived at the bullpen where many Negroes huddled, praying. They stripped Thomas Shipp, dragged him out to the jail yard, strung him to a windowbar until he was dead, lynchee No. 10 of the year. They bashed Abe Smith unconscious with a sledgehammer, let women trample & scratch him, carried him a block away and hung him to a maple in the Courthouse yard...
Returning, they sought Herbert Cameron, mistook and beat another Negro. Their ardor abated, they placed Shipp's body by Smith's, watched them all night...
Reburied. Charles S. Gilpin, Negro actor (Emperor Jones), buried May 12 but disinterred for more impressive burial in a silver-mounted coffin case, with chanting and eulogies. Said Actor Jesse A. Shipp (Green Pastures), oldtime fishing companion of Gilpin: "We have been criticized for disturbing the dead, but our friend was buried near a railroad track where the earth rumbled, and his bones could not rest in peace...
...Nelson, W. E. Northey Jr., M. S. O'Reilly, L. H. Rhinelander, C. H. Parker, Parker, W. F. Pedersen, Donough Prince, F. E. Remick, Brewster Righter, E. T. Ritter, W. C. Ropes, J. H. Rowell, H. E. Scott, P. M. Sheldon, F. E. Shipp, R. S. Shuman, C. V. L. Smith, C. F. Sommers, R. W. Stokes, W. K. Sturges, J. A. Thayer, H. E. Thorner, J. N. Trainer Jr., E. T. Tryon, P. A. Tyko, R. C. Walker, A. A. Weeks Jr., W. L. West, J. W. West, J. W. Welch Jr., C. A. Wheeler, H. O. Wilson...