Mob Breaks Into Jail
- Title
- Mob Breaks Into Jail
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Daily Morning Journal And Courier
- Publication Place
- New Haven, Conneticutt
- Publication Date
- 06/17/1898
- Transcript
- MOB BREAKS INTO JAIL. Triple Murder Followed by Attempt at Lynching-Militia Called. Montgomery, Ala., June 16.-On Tuesday night seven miles from Wetumpka, William Garden and his wife and William Carlee, all old persons, were murdered and their house burned to conceal the crime. Sol Jackson, Lewis Spier and another negro were arrested for the crime. Jackson and Spier con- fessed. To-day a mob of 500 broke in the jail, 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 ninety members of the militia left here on a special train. A few minutes after 8 o'clock word was received that the mob had procured blacksmith tools, broken 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.
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