Arrived Too Late
- Title
- Arrived Too Late
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Arkansas Democrat
- Publication Place
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Publication Date
- 06/17/1898
- Transcript
- ARRIVED TOO LATE Mob Got the Negro Murderers in Alabama Last Night, and May Lynch Them. ARE AFTER THE MONEY Purpose is to Secure the Buried Treasure -Leading Citizens Interceding to Prevent a Lynching. MONTGOMERY, ALA., June 17.- There were five negroes taken out of jail at Wetumpka last night. The troops got there too late to prevent the jail being broken open. However, they followed the mob into the country and telephone messages this morning show the troops are hunting for the prisoners. It is reported the mob has them hidden out. It is also stated that the sixth negro has been implicated and arrested. The mob is trying to find the money stolen and buried before the lynching of the prisoners. Leading citizens, it is also stated, are interceding with the mob to prevent lynching and secure the return of the prisoners to jail. On Tuesday 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 conceal the crime. Carden hoarded his money, and the party were murdered to secure it. Yesterday Sol Jackson, Lewis Speir and another negro were arrested for the crime. Late yesterday afternoon a crowd of 500 men from the neighbor- hood of the crime gathered to mob the prisoners. Since they have been in jail two of the murderers, Jackson and Speir confessed, and told where they buried the money, $1,200. The mob broke into jail about 5 o'clock, but were unable to get into the inner cage, where the prisoners were. The sheriff wired the governor for troops and last night at 8 o'clock ninety 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 had 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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