Soldiers Were Too Late
- Title
- Soldiers Were Too Late
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Wilkes-Barre Semi-Weekly Record
- Publication Place
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
- Publication Date
- 06/21/1898
- Transcript
- SOLDIERS WERE TOO LATE., FIVE NEGROES LYNCHED NEAR, WETUMPKA, ALA., 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 to-day. Last night Governor, Johnson received a message from the, sheriff that a mob was assembling and, he feared his prisoners would be taken, from his, and asked for troops. The, governor soon got together about ninety, 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 they had hid, the money. He was compelled to find, it, and in a few minutes, near the scone, 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, well mounted and no means of conveyance were 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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