Swung From A Limb
- Title
- Swung From A Limb
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Anaconda Standard
- Publication Place
- Anaconda, Montona
- Publication Date
- 06/18/1898
- Transcript
- SWUNG FROM A LIMB. Five Negro Murderers Lynched by an Alabama Mob. Montgomery, Ala., June 17.-The men who murdered Dr. Carden and his wife and an old man named Carlo last week near Wetumpka, were lynched at 9 o'clock to-day. Last night Governor Johnston 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 had secured the prisoners, live in number, and taken 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 hidden the money. He was compelled to find it and in a few minutes, near the scene of the crime, all five were strung up and their bodies riddled with bullets. The militia was unable to follow the mob last night, as they were all well mounted and no means of conveyance was at hand to take the soldiers after them. This morning efforts were made to find the negroes and about 11 o'clock news came over the telephone from Wetumpka that they had been found swinging from a limb. Their names are unknown.
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