Five Negroes Lynched
- Title
- Five Negroes Lynched
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Boston Globe
- Publication Place
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Publication Date
- 06/18/1898
- Transcript
- FIVE NEGROES LYNCHED., Four of Them Confessed to Having, Participated in a Triple Murder in, Alabama., MONTGOMERY, Ala, June 17-The, men who murdered Mr. Carden and his, wife and an old man named Carlee last, week near Wetumpka, were lynched at, 9 o'clock today., Last night Gov. 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 five were swung up and, their bodies riddled with bullets.
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