Terrible Alabama Tragedy

Title: Terrible Alabama Tragedy
Source Type: Newspapers
Publisher: Emporia Republican
Publication Place: Emporia, Kansas
Publication Date: 06/23/1898
Transcript: TERRIBLE ALABAMA TRAGEDY, Five Men Who Had Murdered Three People, for Purposes of Robbery Taken from, Jail and Lynched., MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 18.-The, men who murdered and robbed Mr. Carden and his wife and an old man, named Carlee, near Wetumpka, were, lynched at nine o'clock to-day. Last, night Gov. Johnson received a message, from the sheriff that a mob was assembling and he feared his prisoners, would be taken from him and asked, for troops. The governor soon got together about 90 men of the local, militia and sent them to Wetumpka on, a special train. Before they reached, there, however, the mob had secured, the prisoners five in number and, took them to the scene of the murder., Four of the negroes confessed to having, participated in the crime and one of, them told where he had the money., He was compelled to find it and in a, few minutes, near the scene of the, crime, all five were swung up and their, bodies riddled with bullets.
Sources for: Lewis Spear; Solomon Jackson