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res tind tne’. Siege " Ae a 3 ate 7 wo Jackson INS SAS Chief. Suspects. In,Ra ile ‘Two Jackson negroes tale last night were lodged in city jail as key suspects in the brulal criminal oecault of a 22-year-old white girl Monday night in Battlefield Park. One of the negroce fitted the descrintion elyen bv the young wo- JStscripiion given 3) yFoUNS ‘man affer her brulal assault and ‘dhe other was Sald to closely answer lice description. However, the: krocs were not questioned last night. They were returned from Meridian where they had been arrested carly | Tuesaay merning on a drunk charge. They were not told thal! they resembled the rapists. The ! two men are scheduled for a! thorough gucsHoning this morning. The girl was criminally assaulted . by two negroes at about 4:30 Mon- Guy aS she hurried along a concrete a. 4 ‘ aw “i cash, inctuding a $2 bill, was a Pah . ; 4 “AT. aroes. ~ Fag ' wwe Jailed de walk through the unlighted park. en j uegroes had " nccatea themselves route to the General Electric Plant | in thee bushes for some time before where she worked, The daughter of | their attack. The girl was late for 4a prominent M'ssissipp! family was | work and she was dewn Leld captive for approximately 90) the walkway when they jumped ininutes and threatened with death | from behind the brush and reached by the il-kept, swaggering rapisis. for her. She screamed and fied When she gained her freedom and | through the park, but was overtak- reported the crime to Jackson po-/ en and knocked to the ground. One Mee an all-out hun: jor the crimi-|o. the negroes placed bis hand over oals was instigated. her mouth and the other meraced The girl, hysterical and bruised, | her with his knife. They dragged was takea to police headguarters | ner across the open space to the | early Tuesday morning. She scann-: old Civil War “battlefield trenches. ‘ca the faces of some 10 ncgrocs who | ; Then each negro criminally assaui‘- had. been picked as suspects. Fail-!ed her as the other gagged ber ing to identify her assailants among | with a plece of cotton. | the group, the negroes were rceleas- Foliowing the firat assaul(s, the ed. two men debated whether to slay However during the day other (Continued on page Three) }euspects were picked up in Jack- = a te -_... * Te fon, Rankin County and other pars oe of the state. Bome of these gave quéstionable answers’ and were tocked up in city jall for further : Mterrogaiion. ' — Painstakingly combing the Battle- j* - 4 field Park srea, Jackson's detec- tive bureau found the keen-edged , blade which the girl said «the . ‘© Lt ™. i.|hegroes pressed to her throat dur- : ang the four assaults. . They also found an army belt, be-| _. . . 0 Neved to have been worn by one ‘ . : a of the negrocs, and a paper sack te ; contain'ng two empty whiskey bot |, “ : ties. Both the rapists had becn 4 drinking, the girt told police. The oe . 1 victim's purse, containing §93 in .- ‘e te the shrubs. As law enforcement agents vow- “ca their determination to locate the !. rapists. Jackson Police Chief J.D.) 0 14. Molden issued a plea to law abiding ‘7 . pegroes. He asked them to co- rs operate in every way with officers ye, and report any rumcr or clue.| -- ¢ . Pointing out that, it was thelr duty iid . ‘t-) decent snembers of the com- . : ‘unity, Holden said their reports |* ‘ ‘would’ be held confidential. : . According to authorities, the two |: : ‘, ‘. . wwe ee 3 we . | ° . - : mab. * . 1 one A a ‘ . * . ° fy i iret st