Five Negroes Lynched
- Title
- Five Negroes Lynched
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Washington Times
- Publication Place
- Washington D. C.
- Publication Date
- 06/17/1898
- Transcript
- FIVE NEGROES LYNCHED., An Angry Alabama Mob Wreaks, Vengeance OD Colored Murderers., Montgomery, Ala., June 16.-A dispatch, from Wetumpka says:, "A mob of 400 angry farmers took five, negro prisoners from the county jail here, tonight and went with them into a remote section of the county., "Tuesday night an old farmer, William, Carden, his wife and her brother, were, murdered; in their dwelling seven miles, from Wetumpka. Their house was then, robbed of several thousand dollars and, burned. Five negroes living in the neighborhood were suspected and they were, arrested., "Carden's farmer friends gathered here, this afternoon armed with shotguns and, axes. It was urged that they did not, have evidence sufficient to prove the, prisoners' guilt. It was, therefore, resolved that a committee of ten of the mob, be appointed to ascertain the guilt or, innocence of the prisoners after their, persons had been secured. If guilty it, was determined that they should be, hanged at once; if not found to be guilty, to be returned to the authorities., "For several hours the mob stormed the, fail and hammered with sledge hammers, on the doors. The national guard was off, with the Regular Army, but those national-guardsmen who remained respond-, ed and within an hour and a half after, the riot alarm was sounded at Montgomery, 130 men in uniform were on a, special train en route to Wetumpka., "They reached there half an hour, after the mob had effected entrance into, the jail and had made away with the five, prisoners. It is regarded as certain that, they will be hanged before morning.
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