Wholesale Lynching
- Title
- Wholesale Lynching
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Tribune
- Publication Place
- Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Publication Date
- 06/18/1898
- Transcript
- WHOLESALE LYNCHING Five Negroes Hanged to a Tree-in Alabama-Confessed to Murder. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 17. - The men who murdered Mr. Craden and his wife and an old man named Carlee last week, near Wetumpka, were lynched at 9 o'clock today. Last night Governor Johnson received a message from the sheriff that a 'mob was assembling and he feared his prisoners would be taken from him, and asked for troops. The governor soon got together about 90 men of the local militia and sent them to Wetumpka on a special train. Before they reached there, however, the mob secured "the prisoners, five in number, and took them to the scene of the murder. Four of the negroes confessed to having participated in the crime and one of them told where he had hid the money. He was compelled to find it and in a few minutes, near the scene of the crime, all of the five were swung up and their bodies riddled with bullets. The militia were unable to follow the mob last night, as they were all mounted and no means of conveyances was at hand to take the soldiers after them. This morning efforts were made to find the negroes and news came over the telephone from Wetumpka that they had been found swinging from a limb. Their names are not known.
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