Militia Makes Three Arrest
- Title
- Militia Makes Three Arrest
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Author
- N/A
- Publisher
- The Nashville Banner
- Publication Place
- Nashville, TN
- Publication Date
- January 5, 1915
- Transcript
- MILITIA MAKES THREE ARRESTS Men Now In Wetumpka Jail Charged With Complicity In Lynching. By Associated Press. Montgomery, Ala., January 5.-Sixty members of Montgomery militia re- turned to this city Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock from Wetumpka, where they were hurried at 4 o'clock morning two lynching in the to prevent the of negroes, Jim and Ed Smith, charged with complicity in the murder of R. A. Stillwell, a prominent planter of Elmore Station, Elmore County. The soldiers located the bodies of the two negroes hanging from separate limbs of the same tree near Coozada, a small station five miles from the county seat. Adjt.-Gen. Scully, in com- mand of the militia, also brought back to the Wetumpka jail three men, Tom Wade, his son and Tom Penton, all white, who are held in jail charged with complicity in the lynching. tumpia in buggy, soldiers We- he Tom, Wade, traveling toward a told the wasten route to the county seat to at- tend court this morning. He said he had heard shooting about 2:30 o'clock in the morning and volunteered to lead the party to where the shots sounded from. This he did, and the bodies were located, each being riddled with shots. The white men in jail deny any knowl- edge of the lynching, but Governor O'Neal has ordered a special session of the Grand Jury to make a thorough in- vestigation of the occurrence. According to the Sheriff of Elmore County, five masked, men overpowered while him in his tied to a chair room and him they took the suspected men from their cell. His wife states she later bolted heard the jail door retiring, and on the Sheriff unbolt it and go on the front porch He failed to bolt it again, it is said, when he retired. All the deputies had been sent into the county during the late afternoon with search warrants for some of Stillwell's missing property. Governor O'Neal has issued a formal statement relative to the lynching of Jim and Ed Smith, the negroes two charged with the murder of R. A. Still- well. He instructs the Judge of the aircuit to make immediate and thor- ough investigation of the lynching. . MILITIA MAKES THREE ARRESTS Men Now In Wetumpka Jail Charged With Complicity In Lynching. By Associated Press. Montgomery, Ala., January 5.-Sixty members of Montgomery militia re- turned to this city Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock from Wetumpka, where they were hurried at 4 o'clock morning two lynching in the to prevent the of negroes, Jim and Ed Smith, charged with complicity in the murder of R. A. Stillwell, a prominent planter of Elmore Station, Elmore County. The soldiers located the bodies of the two negroes hanging from separate limbs of the same tree near Coozada, a small station five miles from the county seat. Adjt.-Gen. Scully, in com- mand of the militia, also brought back to the Wetumpka jail three men, Tom Wade, his son and Tom Penton, all white, who are held in jail charged with complicity in the lynching. tumpia in buggy, soldiers We- he Tom, Wade, traveling toward a told the wasten route to the county seat to at- tend court this morning. He said he had heard shooting about 2:30 o'clock in the morning and volunteered to lead the party to where the shots sounded from. This he did, and the bodies were located, each being riddled with shots. The white men in jail deny any knowl- edge of the lynching, but Governor O'Neal has ordered a special session of the Grand Jury to make a thorough in- vestigation of the occurrence. According to the Sheriff of Elmore County, five masked, men overpowered while him in his tied to a chair room and him they took the suspected men from their cell. His wife states she later bolted heard the jail door retiring, and on the Sheriff unbolt it and go on the front porch He failed to bolt it again, it is said, when he retired. All the deputies had been sent into the county during the late afternoon with search warrants for some of Stillwell's missing property. Governor O'Neal has issued a formal statement relative to the lynching of Jim and Ed Smith, the negroes two charged with the murder of R. A. Still- well. He instructs the Judge of the aircuit to make immediate and thor- ough investigation of the lynching. .
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