TWO NEGROS LYNCHED
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TWO NEGROS LYNCHED
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Newspapers
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N/A
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Publisher
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Sailsbury Evening Post
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Publication Place
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Sailsbury, NC
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Publication Date
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January 4, 1915
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TWO NEGROES LYNCHED Mob of Masked Men Entered Alaba- ma Jail and Overpowered the Sher- iff and Took Two Negro Men Ac- cused of Murdering White Farmer and Lynched Them. (By Associated Press.) Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 4.-Ed and Will Smith, negroes, who were ar- rested and accused as accompliced in the murder of R. A. Stillwell, an El- more county farmer, last Thursday, were lynched near Wetumtka by a mob of fifteen masked men last night. About 1:30 they entered the Wet- umtka jail and overpowered the sher- iff. They then forced one of the ne- groe trusties to to unlock the Smith cell and after binding them they left in the direction of Elmore. Governor O'Neil ordered the Mont. gomery militia mobilized and at 3 o'clock the guard left for the scene of the trouble. Stillwell was shot early Thursday morning while guarding his barn against negro thieves. Bloodhounds led, to the cabin of the Smiths and tracks which led from the Stillwell farm are said to fit the Smith ne- groes. The lifeless bodies of the two ne- groes were found early toady swing- ing from limbs of a tree near Elmore, five miles from Wetumpka. Three members of the lynching party are under arrest and in the Wetumpka jail but their identity is not made known.
TWO NEGROS LYNCHED