EXCITEMENT HAS SUBSIDED.
- Title
- EXCITEMENT HAS SUBSIDED.
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Tennessean
- Publication Place
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Publication Date
- 5/14/1897
- Transcript
- EXCITEMENT HAS SUBSIDED. Coroner's Jury Returns tlie Verdict Usual in Such Oases. HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 13. (Special.) The excitement consequent to the discovery and hanging of the two negro women, Moliie Smith and Mandy Franks, in the neighborhood of Jeff, has abated. Tho neighbors, negross nnd whites, are satisfied that the right parlies were executed. A wild rumor reached the city this morn ing that Jim Nanco, a nero man, to whom suspicion of complicity in the poisoning had been directed, had been overtaken in his flight and shot by a mob of armed men The rumor could not be confirmed, and is denied oy parties fiom Jeff to-rjay. Sus picion was attached to Nance becaus3 he quit h!s plow in the field and fled when he heard that Molly Smith bad been arrested. Jennie Burwell, a negro woman who claimed to know that the plot to poison existed, was given three days to get out of the country. She passed here last night and went in the direction of Memphis. An Inquest has been held over tho bodies of Moliie Smith and Mandy Frank, and the Coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to their death at the hands of parties unknown.
Part of EXCITEMENT HAS SUBSIDED.