Clay County AlArchives News.....Lineville Pastor Arrested  July 27, 1923
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Ashland Progress July 27, 1923
The pastor of the Lineville negro Methodist church, Rev. G. D. Ivey, was brought 
to Ashland and lodged in jail Sunday, as a result of an alleged knife attack 
upon three other negroes, made at the close of a meeting held at said church at 
which the presiding elder of the district Rev. W. Allen, was present and playing 
a leading role. From reports it seems that trouble began brewing on Saturday and 
at the Sunday service it broke out anew when Ivey objected to the use of the 
organ by a woman called forward by the elder. The organist's husband, Claws 
Mosely and his brother, M. L. Mosely, and Alex Austin all three got mixed up in 
the scrap and suffered severe knife slashes at the hands of the irate pastor, it 
is said. The affair caused a state of pandemonium to reign in the church until 
the officers and citizens of the town took a hand and quelled the disturbance 
and the victims were given surgical aid.

[Story was run in many Newspapers] 

The Tampa Fla Times:
Three members of the Lineville Methodist church are in a serious condition today 
as a result of an alleged knife attack on them by their pastor, the Rev. J. B. 
Ivey, yesterday during a service at which the presiding elder of the district, 
the Rev. W. Allen was a guest and officiating minister. The police learned that 
the pastor objected to the choice of Presiding Elder Allen for an organist for 
the service. The woman responded to the call of the presiding elder, officers 
said, and Rev. Ivey began to smash the organ. The organist's husband, Clyde 
Moseley, took a hand. Rev. Ivey set upon him with a knife and inflicted sever 
wounds. Remaining members of the congregation went to the organist's aid, and 
they too were severely sashed. Pandemonium reigned in the church until police 
and citizens of the town took a hand. Rev. Ivey was placed in jail at Ashland to 
await the outcome of the injuries of the three men. One surgeon exhausted 
himself trying to repair the injury done by the pastor and called a second 
surgeon to aid him.

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