Lynching In Alabama
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Title
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Lynching In Alabama
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Rock Island Argus
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Publication Place
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Rock Island, Illinois
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Publication Date
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06/17/1898
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Transcript
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LYNCHING IN ALABAMA -- Negroe. Who Murdered Three Persons Strung Up by This Time. Montgomery, Ala., June 17.-On Tues. day night, seven miles north of Wetumpka, William Carden and his wife, an old couple, and William Carlo, also an old man, were murdered and their house burned to conceal the crime. Car- den hoarded his money and the three were murdered to secure it. Wednesday Sol Jackson, Lewis Speir and another negro were arrested for the crime. Late yesterday afternoon a crowd of 500 men from the neighborhood of the crime gathered at Wetumpka to mob the prisoners. Since they had been in jail two of the murderers, Jackson and Speir confessed and told where they buried the money, $1,200. The mob broke into the jail about 5 o'clock, but was unable to get into the cage where the prisoners were. The sheriff telegraphed the governor for troops and about ninety of the former members of the military companies here left on a special train. A few minutes after 8 o'clock word was received that the mob succeeded in getting black- smith tools, broke open the cage and secured the prisoners. The troops will be too late.
Lynching In Alabama