Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-29
A MOB'S REVENGE.
Lynohers Hang Murderer at
Crystal Springs, Miss.
TROOPS FAIL TO ARRIVE IN TINE.
Race Riot Threatened at Key West
/, Fla.-Federal Aid IL Asked For
Murderers Legally Executed
Ia IN Other States.

Crystal Springs, Miss, June 26-The
negro, John Moses, who murdered an
old man named Strong near this place
. few days ago and who has been con.
fined in the local Jail with strong
guard since Thursday, confessed to the
killing Friday morning, and shortly
after the guard was overpowered by q
mob of 200 or 300 men, mostly farmers,
and Moses taken from the Jail and, with
. rope around his neck, was dragged
through the streets to a tree near the
railway and hanged. He was dead or
nearly so when they reached the place
OF hanging.
Troops Were Called For.
4 Two requests for troops to protect the
prisoner had been wired to jackson,
but owing to the absence of both the
governor and lieutenant governor from
the capitol the troops could not be
moved until Friday morning, when it
WAS too late
After hanging Moses to the tree, some
OF the mob made move to shoot him.
i The leader declared it should not be
done, as justice had triumphed and that
was all they wanted.
Whip False Witness.
!. The mob then started on search
for negro preacher who had sworn
that the murderer had spent the day
ON which Strong was killed at his house
and that he knew he (Moses) was not
the guilty person. He swore to DELHI
crate lie, and the mob caught him and
gave him an unmerciful whipping for
false swearing.
Trouble at Key West.
! Key West, Fla, June 26.-This city
was virtually in the hands of negro
mob Thursday night, and white citi-
zen was killed by the mob. At four p.
m. Thursday Sylvanus Johnson, charged
with assault on a white woman, was
conducted to the courthouse for hear
ling. The courtroom was crowded, and
70. d. Pendleton, well-known citizen,
arose and asked: care there enough
white men present to hang the negro?"
There was a chorus Of eyes," and the
crowd closed in on the prisoner. The
sheriff and his deputies drew their re-
lvolvers and held the crowd at bay while
johnson was at once hurried back 10
Jail. A big mob gathered in front Of
the building and one of the negroes
cried out to lynch Pendleton, and
rush was made for him. Through the
Efforts Of himself and his friends Pen
dleton made his escape in carriage.
The negro mob then gathered about
the Jail building to prevent the lynch
nj 0f y0h nd -
made by them to kill any white man
that might come to the jail.
4 About II o'clock Thursday night Will
liam Gardener, a white man, was sit
ting in front of the courthouse, when
several of the negro mob approached
him and ordered him to move He arose
to obey, and as soon as his back was
turned there rang out the. crack Of O
number OF rifles and Gardener received
a mortal wound, from which he died two
hours later.
The whites are inclined to avenge
Gardeners death, and another attempt
to lynch johnson is expected to be
made. A serious conflict between the
whites and the blacks is feared. The
militia is in readiness for any disturb
ance, having been ordered out by the
governor, and the United States troops
are at the orders of the sheriff.
4 Federal Troops Asked For.
Washington, June 26.-Friday after
noon the governor Of Florida tele-
graphed President Mckinley that riot
is threatened at Key West and asked
him, in view of the distance of Kew
West from the main land and the diff
Guilty in getting state troops to the scene
of trouble In time to be of any avail, to
instruct the commander of the federal
troops there to act. The president re-
piled to the governor citing the law in
the case and asking for particulars.
Secretary Alger has telegraphed to the
commandant of the post at Key West
asking for telegraphic advices giving
the exact situation. The action to be
taken will depend upon the response to
these inquiries.
Aurderers Executed in Georgia, West
Virginia and Missouri.
i Atlanta, &C.,, June 20. II Terrell Hud-
son, negro, who was to have been
hanged two weeks ago for murder,
but who was Retrieved at the last mo-
ment by Gov. Atkinson, died on the
gallows at Decatur. The drop fell. at
.11:46h and IA minutes later Hudson
was pronounced dead, the fall having
broken his neck. Hudson killed Sea-
horn Malcolm another n egro in u,1ar.