WILL GOBER, A NEGRO, KILLED JACE AYERS, PROMINENT MAN.
Mob Organized Last Night and Just Before Midnight
Swung Gober to a Limb.
Lula, Ga., November 10-
Information comes through an eye-witness at 2 a.m.
from Homer that Will Gober, a negro, was lynched there
at 11:45 o'clock for the murder of Jace Ayers, a
prominent citizen of that place. Ayers and the negro
had some words about the negro running over Ayers's
father with a bicycle Tuesday evening and he shot
Ayers then. Ayers died yesterday afternoon.
The negro swung for about fifteen minutes, when his
body was riddled by bullets. There were fifty men in
the party that took him from jail and lynched him to a
large oak tree in front of the courthouse. They were
masked.
