Mob Lynches Four Negroes
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Title
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Mob Lynches Four Negroes
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The San Francisco Call
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Publication Place
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San Francisco, California
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Publication Date
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06/18/1898
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Transcript
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MOB LYNCHES FOUR NEGROES Triple Murder Avenged in Alabama. TROOPS ARRIVE TOD LATE ONE OF THE CULPRITS MAKES CONFESSION. He and His Companions Hanged to a Tree and Their Bodies Riddled With Bullets. Special Dispatch to The Call. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 17.-Four of the five negroes taken from the jail at Wetumpka last night were hanged this morning at a point ten miles from Wetumpka and thirty-two miles from the scene of their crime. The four were Sol Jackson, Lewis Shier, Jesse Thompson and Camp Reese. The troops from here did not succeed in locating the prisoners, as the country is hilly, rough and wooded. The most of the night and this morning were spent by the mob in a sort of trial, investigating the crime and getting at the guilty ones. The four negroes who were hanged confessed to having participated in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Carden and Carlo, and one of them told where he had hidden the money. He was compelled to find it, and, in a few minutes, near the scene of the crime, all four were swung up and their bodies riddled with bullets. The militia was unable to follow the mob last night, as its members were all well mounted and no means of conveyance were at hand to take the soldiers after them. This morning when efforts to find the negroes were renewed news came over the telephone from Wetumpka that they had been discovered swinging from a limb.
Mob Lynches Four Negroes