In Mob&#039;s Hands

Title

In Mob's Hands

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

Topeka State Journal

Publication Place

Topeka, KA

Publication Date

06/17/1898

Transcript

IN MOB'S HANDS. Five Negroes Taken From an Alabama Jail. Montgomery, Ala., June 17.—There were five negroes taken from 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 the telephone messages this morning show the troops are hunting for the prisoners. It is reported that the mob has them hidden out. It Is also 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 also stated are interceding with the mob to prevent lynching and to secure the return of the prisoners to the jail. On Tuesday night, seven miles north of Wetumpka, William Carden and his wife, an old couple, and William Carley. also an old man, were murdered and their houses burned to conceal the crime. Carden hoarded his money, and the party were murdered to secure It. Sol Jackson, Lewis Spler and another negro were arrested for the crime. A crowd of 500 men from the neighbor- hood of the crime gathered at Wetumpka to mob the prisoners. While they were in jail two of the murderers, Jackson and Spier. confessed and told where they burled the money, $1,200. The mob broke into the jail but were unable to get into the Inner cage where the prisoners were. The sheriff telegraphed the governor for troops, and about ninety of the former members of the military companies here left on a special train. A few minutes later word was received that the mob succeeded in getting blacksmith tools, broke open the cage and had secured the prisoners. The intention of the mob. it was stated. was to take them to the scene of the crime and there hang them.

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