A Batch Of Men Lynched
- Title
- A Batch Of Men Lynched
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Los Angeles Evening Express
- Publication Place
- Los Angeles, California
- Publication Date
- 06/17/1898
- Transcript
- A BATCH OF MEN LYNCHED. Militia Arrives Too Late to Prevent the Jail Attack. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 17. .-There were five negroes taken from the jail at Wetumpka last night. The troops got there too late to prevent the jail from being broken open. However, they followed the mob into the country to hunt for the prisoners. It is reported that the mob has them hidden out. It is also stated that a sixth negro has been implicated and arrested. The mob is trying to find the money that was stolen and buried before lynching the prisoners. Leading citizens, it is also stated, are interceding with the mob to prevent lynching and to secure the return of the prisoners to the jail. Later A telephone message from Wetumpka states that four of the prisoners taken from jail were hanged this morning at a point ten miles from Wetumpka and thirty-two miles from the scene of the crime. The four were Sol Jackson, Lewis Shier, Jesse Thompson and Camp Reese. The troops from here did not succeed in locating the prisoners, as the country is hilly, rough and wooded. The most of the night and this morning were spent in a sort of trial investigating the crime and getting at the guilty ones.
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