Hunted in Vain

Title

Hunted in Vain

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

The Allen County Republican-Gazette

Publication Place

Lima, OH

Publication Date

06/21/1898

Transcript

HUNTED IN VAIN. Four Negroes Lynched While Troops Were Trying to Save Them. 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 a. m. Governor Johnston 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 had 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 were strung up, and their bodies riddled with bullets. The militia was unable to follow the mob during the night, as they were all well mounted and no means of conveyances were at hand to take the soldiers after them. Efforts were made to find the negroes, and about 11 a. m. news came over the telephone from Wetumpka that they had been found swinging from a limb. Their names were Sol Jackson, Lewis Spear, Jessie Thompson and Camp Reese.

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