Five Negroes Seized
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Title
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Five Negroes Seized
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Brooklyn Citizen
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Publication Place
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Brooklyn, NY
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Publication Date
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06/17/1898
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Transcript
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FIVE NEGROES SEIZED. Mob Took Them from Jail—Were Accused of Triple Murder and Robbery. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 17.—The county jail at Wetumpka was broken into last night, and a mob of 500 farmers seized Louis Speer, Jeff Thompson, Sol Will, Reese Jackson and another negro, and started out into the country with them. At the request of the Sheriff, the Governor sent a military company from here to Wetumpka at 8 o'clock last evening, but it is not believed that they arrived in time to prevent a lynching. The negroes were charged with having on Tuesday night last murdered and robbed an old couple named William Carden and wife, and William Corler, who lived seven miles from Wetumpka, and stealing $8,000. Their house was burned to conceal the crime. Jackson and Speir had confessed, and told where they had hidden $1,200 of the money stolen.
Five Negroes Seized