Sumter-Schley County GaArchives News.....Feb. 17, 1922 - Area News - Daily Times Enterprise February 17 1922
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      Daily Times Enterprise
        Thomasville, Ga.
        February 17, 1922


        FIRST ARREST MADE IN 
          LYNCHING CASE

   Americus, Ga.,  Feb.  17. - - Benny
DeVane, one of the nine men for whom
warrants have been issued in connection
with the lynching of Will Jones, a negro
farmer, in Schley county Monday, was
arrested yesterday afternoon by Sheriff
J. E. Battle and is now being held in the
county  jail at  Ellaville.  Henry Harvey, 
another  of  the  men  wanted,  who was
wounded by the negro Sunday night when
he went to his house in company  with
others supposedly to whip the negro, is
under guard in his home.  The others are
missing  from the county.  Two of them
are brothers of Bennie DeVane and one
is a brother-in-law.  The people of the 
community are insisting  that the lynch-
ers be punished.
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      DEATH OF DR. F. A. THOMAS

   Americus, GA.,  Feb. 17. -- Dr. F. A.
Thomas, one of the older physicians here,
died last night of gastritis.  He was 62 
years of  age and came here  from Hall
county 31 years ago.   He was widely
known for his charity work.
    
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       JAIL DELIVERY AT AMERICUS

  Americus, Ga., Feb. 17. -- Five pris-
oners, including one charged with mur-
der, broke out of the Sumter county jail 
and escaped Wednesday night shortly 
after dark, sawing and prying out of the 
bull pen and then rounding a hole in the 
masonry about a rear window of the jail 
room.
  All were negro's and none were cap-
tured  Clyde Kemp, another negro mur-
derer,  was unable to get through the hole 
cut in the pen bars and was left behind.  
Blankets which the prisoners were in the 
habit of hanging up to keep the wind off 
them obscured the places where they were 
working prior to their escape.
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