Wholesale Lynching

Title

Wholesale Lynching

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

Daily New Era

Publication Place

Lancaster, PN

Publication Date

06/17/1898

Transcript

WHOLESALE LYNCHING. FIVE MURDERERS HANGED IN ALABAMA. Taken from Jail by a Large Mob and After an Impromptu Trial Strung Up. Had Murdered Three Old People for Their Money. Montgomery, Ala., June 17.—Five negroes were taken out of 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 and telephone messages show the troops are hunting for the prisoners. It is reported the mob has them concealed. It is 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 said, are intercepting the mob to prevent lynching and to secure the return of the prisoners to the jail. A telephone message from Watumpka states that four of the prisoners taken from the jail there last night were hanged this morning at a point ten miles from Watumpka and three miles from the scene of the crime. The four were: Sol. Jackson, Lewis Spier, Jesie Thompson, 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 a trial, investigating the crime and getting at the guilty ones. The crime for which the men were lynched was the murder of Wm. Carden and his wife, an old couple, and William Carlee, also an old man, and the burning of their house to conceal the crime. Carden hoarded his money, and the murders were committed to secure it. Two of the murderers con- fessed and told where they had buried $1,200.

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