Negroes Will Be Lynched

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Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

The Salt Lake Herald

Publication Place

Salt Lake City, Utah

Publication Date

06/17/1898

Transcript

NEGROES WILL BE LYNCHED THREE MURDERERS SECURED BY A MOB. Killed Three Aged People For. Their Money, and Confessed the Crime- Will Be Taken to the Scene. Montgomery, Ala., June 16.-On Tues- day night, seven miles north of Wetumpka, William Carden and his wife, an old couple, and William Carlo, also an old man, were murdered and their house burned to conceal the crime. Carden hoarded his money, and the party were murdered to secure it. Yesterday Sol Jackson, Lewis Speier and another negro were arrested for the crime. Late this afternoon a crowd of 500 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, confessed and told where they had buried the money, $1,200. 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 90 of the former members of the military companies here left on a special train. A few minutes after 8 o'clock word was received 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 Wetumpka in time to oppose the mob.

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