Lynchers Act Promptly

Title

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

The Saint Paul Globe

Publication Place

St. Paul, Minnesota

Publication Date

06/17/1898

Transcript

LYNCHERS ACT PROMPTLY. Mob Takes Three Negro Murderers From Jail Before Troops Arrive. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 16.-On Tuesday 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. Sol Jackson, Lewis Speir and another negro were arrested for the crime. The sheriff telegraphed the governor for troops, and at 8 o'clock tonight about ninety members of a militia company left here on a special train. A few minutes before 8 o'clock word was received that the mob had secured blacksmith tools, broken open the jail and taken 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 militia company will not reach Wetumpka in time to oppose the mob

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