Angry Mob In Alabama
- Title
- Angry Mob In Alabama
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- New York Times
- Publication Place
- New York, New York
- Publication Date
- 06/17/1898
- Transcript
- ANGRY MOB IN ALABAMA. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 16.-Yesterday Sol Jackson. Lewis Spier and another negro, were arrested for the crime of rob- bing an aged couple and burning their house Late this afternoon a crowd of 500 men gathered at Wetumpka. Since they have been in jail two of the murderers, Jackson and Spier, confessed, and told where they buried the money, $1,200. The mob broke in the jail about 5 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 to-night about ninety of the former members of the militia left here on a special train. A few minutes after 8 o'clock word was received that the mob succeeded in getting blacksmith's tools, broke open the cage, and secured the prisoners. The intention of the mob, it is stated, is to take them 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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