Elizabeth City, N.C., March 3—Unmasking of a leader of the mob that last night sought to take Elwell Overton and Sap White, negroes, from the Pasquotank county jail here, today was credited with having much to do with causing the crowd of men to disperse without serious trouble. Sheriff Chas. Reid and Captain Winslow, of the police department, ripped a mask off one of the leaders and the crowd scattered after a number of officials and other citizens had exhorted the crowd to let the law take its course.
Overton is charged with having thrown W.R. Balance, engineer of a tug boat, overboard during a fight. White is believed to be the highwayman who fatally wounded O.C. Bray, local insurance man, several months ago.
The negroes were hurriedly removed to Norfolk, Va., after the mob had been quieted.
From the front page of the Concord Times, Monday, March 3, 1924
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