Three To Be Lynched
- Title
- Three To Be Lynched
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Baltimore Sun
- Publication Place
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Publication Date
- 06/17/1898
- Transcript
- THREE TO BE LYNCHED Alabama Mob Carries Off A Trio Of Colored Men Accused Of Murdering Three Old People. MONTGOMERY, ALA. June 16.-On Tuesday night, seven miles from Wetumpka, Wm. Carden and his wife, an old couple, and William Carlee, also an old man, were murdered and their house burned to conceal the crime. Carden hoarded his money, and the murders were committed to secure it. Yesterday Sol. Jackson, Lewis Speir and another colored man were arrested for the crime. Late this afternoon a crowd of five hundred men gathered at Wetumpka. Since they have been in jail Jackson and Speir confessed and told where they buried the money, $1,200. The mob broke in the jail about 8 o'clock, but were unable to get into the inner cage. where the prisoners were. The sheriff telegraphed the Governor for troops, and at 8 o'clock 10- night about ninety former members of the militia left here on a special train. A few minutes after 8 o'clock word was received that the mob had succeeded In getting blacksmith tools, had broken open the cage and secured the prisoners. The intention of the mob, it is stated, is to take the three men to the scene of the crime and hang them. The military company will not reach Wetumpka in time to oppose the mob.
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