#WhiteMobViolence | Roswell Daily Record February 5, 1917

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.