Triple Lynching
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Title
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Triple Lynching
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Buffalo Commercial
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Publication Place
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Buffalo, New York
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Publication Date
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06/17/1898
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Transcript
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TRIPLE LYNCHING. All Preparations Had been Made by a Mob to Hang Three Negro Murderers When the Dispatch Was Sent. Montgomery, A'a., June 17.-On Tuesday night, seven miles from 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 hoarded his money and the murders were committed to secure It. Wednesday, Sol Jackson, Lewis Spier and another negro were arrested for the crime. Yesterday afternoon a crowd of 500 men gathered at Wetumpka. Since they have been in jail, two of the murderers, Jackson and Spier, confessed and told where they burled the money, $1,200. The mob broke in 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 last night about 90 of the former members of the militia left here on a special train. Word was received that the mob had succeeded in getting blacksmith's tools, broke open the cage and secured the prisoners. The Intention of the mob was to take the negroes to the scene of the crime and hang them. The military company could not reach Wetumpka In time to oppose the mob.
Triple Lynching