Triple Lynching Probable
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Triple Lynching Probable
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Kansas City Journal
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Publication Place
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Publication Date
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06/17/1898
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Transcript
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TRIPLE LYNCHING PROBABLE. Alabama Mob Takes Three Negro Murderers From Jail With Intent to Hang Them. MONTGOMERY, ALA., June 16.-On Tuesday night, seven miles north of Wetumpka, William Carden and his wife, an old couple, and William Carlee, also an old man, were murdered and their house burned to conceal the crime. Carden hoard his money and the party were murdered to secure it. Yesterday Sol Jackson, Lewis Speier and another negro were arrested fo 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 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 blacksmith tools and had broken open the cage and secured the prisoners. The intention of the mob, it is stated, 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.
Triple Lynching Probable