MOB LYNCHED TWO NEGROS LAST NIGHT
- Title
- MOB LYNCHED TWO NEGROS LAST NIGHT
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Author
- N/A
- Publisher
- The Concord Times
- Publication Place
- Concord, VA
- Publication Date
- January 13, 1915
- Transcript
- MOB LYNCHED TWO NEGROES LAST NIGHT STORMED JAIL AND OVERPOW. ERED SHERIFF. / Negroes Were Implicated in Assassin ation of an Elmore County, Ala Farmer, Who Was Shot Early Thursday Morning While Guarding His Barn Against Negro Thieves.- Evidence Against the Negroes Was Only Circumstantial-Militia Or- dered to the Scene. By the Associated Press Montgomery, Ala, Jan. 4-Ed and Will Smith, negroes, arrested and ac. cused of implication in the assassination of R. A. Stillwell, an Elmore county farmer last Thursday, were lynehed near Wetumpka early this morning by a mob of 15 or more masked men. About 1:30 the mob entered the Wetumpka jail, overpowered and bound the sheriff and forced one of the negro trusties to unlock the cells. After binding the prisoners the men left in the direction of Elmore station. Governor O'Neill ordered the Montgomery military mobolized and at 3 o'clock the guardsmen left here for the scene. Stillwell was shot early Thursday morning while guarding his barn against negro theives. Bloodhounds led the officers to the cabin of the Smiths. Tracks near the Stillwell barn it is said, fitted the tracks near Smith cabin. The bodies of the negroes were found near Elmore station, five miles from Wetumpka this morning. Three supposed members of the lynching party are in jail at Wetumpka, but their identity is being kept secret by the authorities.