NEGRO KENTUCKY GOVERNOR SATED FROM MOB, ON TRIAL Murray, Ky., Feb.' 5.—With the trial of Lube Martin, negro,, scheduled to begin here today, local authorities were . wondering whether the remarkable oratorical powers of Governor A. O. Stanley would again be necessary to keep him from being lynched. Martin is charged with the murder of Guthrie Duiguid, a policeman. When his trial came up January 10, Judge Charles Bush and Denny Smith commonwealth attorney, agreed that the feeling against the negro was toe intense for a trial at that time and had the negro spirited away. The crowd became a mob and throughout the following night threatened to dy. namite the hotel where Judge Bush and Smith spent the night. Governor Stanley rushed to Murray on a special train, declaring that the mob would have to attack the governor of Kentucky before it attached Judge Bush and Smith. He • pleaded with the mob and it finally dispensei. Special precautions were taken to guard the negro today.
Timothy E. Nelson, Ph.D., Historian
