Swift Retribution
- Title
- Swift Retribution
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Daily Press
- Publication Place
- Newport News, Virginia
- Publication Date
- 06/17/1898
- Transcript
- SWIFT RETRIBUTION Judge Lynch's Court i in Session in Alabama. HORRIBLE TRIPLE MURDER Aged Woman and Two Old Men Slaughtered and Their House Burned to Conceal the Crime. Mob Too Quick for the Militia. (By Telegraph) MONTGOMERY. ALA. June 16.-On Tuesday night seven miles from Wetumpka. William Carden and his with an old couple. and William Carlee, 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 Spier and another negro were arrested for the crime. Late this afternoon a crowd of five hundred 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 Spier, confessed and told where they buried the money. $1,200. The mob broke in the jail about 5 o'clock. but were unable to get into the inner cag 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 militia companies left here 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 hang them. The military company will not reach Wetumpka in time to oppose the mob.
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