Lynched By This Time
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Title
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Lynched By This Time
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Anaconda Standard
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Publication Place
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Anaconda, Montana
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Publication Date
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06/17/1898
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Transcript
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LYNCHED BY THIS TIME. Negroes Kill Two Men and a Woman to Get $1,200-A Mob Breaks Into the Jail and Secures the Prisoners. Montgomery, Ala., June 16.-On Tuesday 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 was burned to conceal the crime. Carden hoarded his money. and the party were murdered to secure it. Yesterday Sol Jackson, Lewis Speier and another negro were arrested for the crime. Late this afternoon a crowd of 500 men from the neighborhood of the crime gathered at Wetumpka to mob the prisoners. Since they have been in jail two of the murderers, Jackson and Speier. confessed, and told where they buried the money, $1,200. The mob broke into the jail about 5 o'clock. but were unable to get into the inner cage, where the prisoners were. The sheriff telegraphed the governor for troops, and at 8 o'clock to- night about 40 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 blacksmith tools, broke open the cage and secured the prisoners. The intention of the mob. it is said. is to take them to the scene of the crime and there hang them. The military company will not reach Wetumpka in time to oppose the mob.
Lynched By This Time