NEGROS LYNCHED; SUSPECTED IN MURDER CASE
- Title
- NEGROS LYNCHED; SUSPECTED IN MURDER CASE
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Author
- N/A
- Publisher
- The Knoxville Sentinel
- Publication Place
- Knoxville, TN
- Publication Date
- January 4, 1915
- Transcript
- ALABAMA NEGROES LYNCHED SUSPECTED IN MURDER CASE MONTGOMERY, Jan. .-Ed and guarding his barn against negro Will Smith, negroes, arrested for thieves. He was shot in the back implication in the assassination of the head. Bloodhounds were of R. A. Stilwell, an Elmore coun- put on the trail and the scent led ty farmer, last Thursday, were directly to the cabins of the Smith lynched early this morning by negroes. They were accordingly mob of fifteen or more men. arrested. Tracks near the Still- About 1:30 o'clock this morning well barn, it is said, fitted the a mob of men, heavily masked and tracks made by the negroes when armed, entered the jail, overpow- arrested. ered Sheriff Jackson, bound the Details are meagre as to events officer to a chair and forced one occurring after the mob left the of the negro trusties to unlock the jail. "The negroes were lynched," cells of the two Smith negroes. is the announcement given out at With the two prisoners carefully the Wetumpka jail, although no bound the men left in the direction official report of the finding of the of Elmore station. bodies has been made. The Governor O'Neal ordered Adjutant companies under Gen. Scully tant-General Scully to mobilize are packed in a collection of the Montgomery militia and automobiles, endeavoring to round up o'clock the guardsmen left here in some of the known participants in automobiles for the scene of the party. Wetumpka is fourteen disorder. miles from Montgomery, in Elmore Stillwell was assassinated some county, just across the Tallapoosa time early Thursday morning while river.