Lynched
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Title
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Lynched
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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Publication Place
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Lexington, Kentucky
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Publication Date
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06/17/1898
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Transcript
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LYNCHED. Five Negro Men Hanged in Alabama This Morning. - Taken From Jail to Scene of Triple Murder. ALLEGED THEY CONFESSED. [Associated Press Telegram.| Montgomery, Ala.. June 17.-Five Negro men were lynched this morning near Wetumpka for the alleged murder of Mr. and Mrs. Carden and an old man named Carlee last week. It was believed in the neighborhood the old couple had a considerable amount of money secreted about their home and the day their bodies were discovered a thorough investigation was started, which resulted in the arrest of five Negro men who lived near the old couple. The men were lodged in jail at Wetumpka, and although feeling ran high no effort to do violence to them took place till last night, when a mob broke into the old structure and secured the five Negroes and left for the hills with them. The officers notified the Governor and troops from Montgomery were ordered to Wetumpka to protect, or rather rescue. the men from the mob. The troops arrived to find that the mob had taken the men to the scene of the murder and would probably lynch them whether they confessed or not. That was late last night. The troops left for the hills this morning, but there presence was useless, as the men were lynched about 9 o'clock, the terrible evidence of the mob being five dead bodies swinging from the limbs of trees near the scene of the awful murder. A telephone message from Wetumpka says: Four of the Negroes confessed to having participated in the crime and one told where he hid the money. He was compelled to find it. and in a few minutes all five were strung up and their bodies riddled with bullets. Leading citizens, it is stated, interceded with the mob to prevent the lynching and secure the return of the prisoners to the jail, but without avail.
Lynched