Three Negroes Lynched
- Title
- Three Negroes Lynched
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Publication Place
- Los Angeles, CA
- Publication Date
- 06/17/1898
- Transcript
- THREE NEGROES LYNCHED. They Murdered Three Old People in Alabama. [ASSOCIATED PRESS NIGHT REPORT.1 MONTGOMERY (Ala.,) June 16.-On Tuesday night, seven miles north of Wetumpka. William Cardena and his wife, an old couple. and William Carlo, also an old man. were murdered and their house burned to conceal the crime. Cardena hoarded his money and the party were murdered to secure it. Yesterday Sol Jackson, Lewis Repier and another negro were arrested for the crime. Late this afternoon a crowd of 500 men from the neighborhood of the crime gathered at Wetumpa to mob the prisoners. Since they have been in fail two of the murderers, Jackson and Repier. confessed and told where they buried the money. $1200. The mob broke into 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 tonight about ninety of the former members of the military companies here left on a special train. A few: minutes after S o'clock word was received that the mob had succeeded in getting blacksmith tools, broke open the cake and had secured the prisoners. The intention of the mob, it is stated. is to take them to the scene of the crime and there hang them. The military company will not reach Wetumpka in time to oppose the mob.
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