Alabama Mob
- Title
- Alabama Mob
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Chattanooga Daily Times
- Publication Place
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Publication Date
- 06/17/1898
- Transcript
- ALABAMA MOB, Taking Three Negroes to the Scene, of Their Horrible Crime to, Lynch Them., Montgomery, Ala., June 16.-On Tuesday, night seven miles north of Wetumpka, Wm. Carden and his wife, an old couple, and, Wm. Carle, also an old man, were murdered, and their house burned to conceal the crime., Carden hoarded his money and the party, were murdered to secure It. Yesterday Sol, Jackson. Lewis Speir and another negro, were arrested for the crime. Late this after- noon a crowd of 300 men from the neighborhood of the crime gathered at Wetumpka, to mob the prisoners. Since they have been, in jail two of the murderers, Jackson and, Speir, confessed and told where they buried, the money, $1,200. The mob broke into the, fall about 5 o'clock. but were unable to get, into the inner cage where the prisoners, were. The sheriff telegraphed the governor, for troops and at 8 o'clock tonight about, ninety of the former members of the milltary companies here left on a special train., A few minutes after 8 o'clock word was received that the mob succeeded In getting, blacksmith tools. broke open the cage and, secured the prisoners. The Intention of the, mob, it Is stated. 1s to take them to the, scene of the crime and there hang them., The military company will not reach Wetumpka in time to oppose the mob.
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