In Hands Of A Mob
- Title
- In Hands Of A Mob
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Indianapolis Journal
- Publication Place
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Publication Date
- 06/17/1898
- Transcript
- IN HANDS OF A MOB., -, Three Negroes Taken from Jail, and, Will Probably Be Lynched., MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 16.-On Tues-, day night, seven miles north of Wetumpka,, William Carden and his wife, an old couple,, and William Carle, also an old man, were, murdered and their house burned to con-, ceal the crime. Carden hoarded his money, and the party was murdered to secure it., Yesterday Sol Jackson, Louis Speier and an-, other negro were arrested for the crime., Late this afternoon a crowd of five hun-, dred men from the neighborhood of the, crime gathered at Wetumpka to mob the, prisoners. Since they have been in jail two, of the murderers, Jackson and Speier, con-, fessed and told where they buried the, money-$1,200. The mob broke into the jail, about 5 o'clock, but was 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 mili-, tary companies here left on a special train., A few minutes after 8 o'clock word was re-, ceived that the mob succeeded in getting, blacksmith 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 there hang them., The military company will not reach We-, tumpka in time to oppose the mob.
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