SEX IS NO BAR
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SEX IS NO BAR
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Logansport Reporter
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Publication Place
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Logansport, Indiana
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Publication Date
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5/13/1897
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SEX IS NO BAR Alabama Mob Lynches Two Colored Girls Taken to the woods and hanged The unfortunate Negresses had been arrested on suspicion of poisoning a family, one member of which died Huntsville, Ala., MAy 13- The corpses of two negresses Nellie Smith and Mandj White are dangling from the limb of a live oak just on the outskirts of the village of Jeff They were hanged Tuesday night for poisoning Joshua Kelly a well-known citizen They confessed to two attempts on the lives of the Kelly family The first attempt re-soiled In the death of Mr Kelly Sheriff J JP Powell has gone to the scene to cut down the bodies The lynching was participated iff by 20 or 30 persona Nine weeks ago the first attempt on the lives of the Kelly family was made The family sickened shortly after eating supper and Joshua Kelly died 24 hours afterward On May 1 the family and tenants of the deceased were poisoned again In some mysterious manner There were six whites and eight negroes affected Messrs D E and Lamson Kelly became critically ill as did Mrs E Kelly Oakley Woodward clerk in store who came near dying from the other poisoning and a Ten nessee drummer who spent the night with them were two other victim In criminating evidence was found Saturday at the Kelly home at Jeff and a clew In the shape of a box of poison led to the detection of the negresses The premises were searched and underneath the kitchen was found a box of poison On It was stamped the trademark of D E & J G Kelly the grocers at Jeff The poison which was rough on rats was placed in the biscuits which all the affected ate r’ The Women Ceptored f Suspicion was then directed toMol-lie Smith a young negro girl who had formerly worked In the family and search of her house was made Mollie had anticipated the visit and had start ed to Tennessee on foot Handy Frank lin Mollie’s successor at the Kellys was also suspected Twenty men gath ered Wednesday night and part struck out to capture Mollie whoiwthey overtook some ten miles sway -The Franklin woman was found at her own home in bed She waa bidden to get up and dress and go with the posse which she did k The Franklin woman gave way when she was cross-questioned and finally made a clean breast of the whole affair " She con fessed to the last poisoning but said Mollie Smith had pat the poison In the coffee and sausages and had persuaded h ear to poison the bread This she did while carrying the flour of which it was made from the pantry to the kitchen Tier Are Hatnared - 'The posse satisfied of the guilt of the two women carried them to the woods a short distance from ’Mollie Smith's bouse and deaf to tears prayers and screams Bed ropes about their necks lifted them on high and waited by quietly until it was evident they were dead Without a word they then stole away in the darkness There will probably never be a clew to their identity t Jennie Harwell another n egress is in custody She has coolly avowed that she knew the poisoning waa going on but did not care to mention the matter The instigator of the crime is believer to have been a negro named Williams who a short while before the first poisoning had been discharged by the Kellys for impudence and driven from the place Report has it that he too was captured and lynched It is certain that all participants in the crime will meet the same fate.