ASSASSINATED A WHITE MAN

Title

Source Type

Newspapers

Author

N/A

Publisher

Junction City Daily Union

Publication Place

Junction City, KS

Publication Date

January 4, 1915

Transcript

LYNCHED TWO MEN MOB AT WETUMPKA, ALABAMA, HANG TWO MEN THIS MORNING. ASSASSINATED A WHITE MAN Two Prisoners Were Taken From the Jail and Hung to a Tree-Bodies Not Fount Yet. (By the Associated Press.) Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 4.-Edward and Will Smith, negroes, arrested last Thursday, charged with implication in the assassination of R. A. Stillwell, an Elmore county farmer was taken from the jail at Wetpumka, Ala., early today and lynched by a mob of 20 men. The mob, masked and armed, entered the jail, overpowered Sheriff Jackson, bound him to a chair and forced a negro trusty to unlock the cells of the two negroes. With the prisoners carefully bound, the men left. Details are meager as to what occured after their departure. The bodies have not yet been found. Soon after reports reached the-governor's office that the mob had taken the prisoners, Montgomery militiamen were hurried toward the scene in automobiles. They were too late to prevent a lynching, Stillwell was shot several days ago while guarding his barn against thieves. Bloodhounds led directly, it was declared, to the cabin of the Smiths.

Sources for

See all items with this value William Smith

See all items with this value Edward Smith