The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-16
KNIGHT & JILLSON

more calling than ever is the fact that we
had ample militia forces with which the
terrible tragedy could have been averted.
The sheriff is to blame and nobody else.
1 could not very well send the troops there
i'm the face of the repeated assurances OF
the sheriff that they Were not needed and
them anyway IL / had known the facts.
Notwithstanding the assurances OF the
sheriff. or ordered Warden Tomlinson TO
hold the prisoner a short time longer. But
1t is done now. and TO the fair State OF
Kansas belongs the disgrace. IL Is awful.
simply awful. Things like this have hap
pened in the South many times. but they
do not Seem so horrible there as they do
here, where nothing of the kind had ever
been thought of. When occurrences like
this happen right here I'm our own State IL
brings US to face the fact that something
Governor Stanley gave utterance TO the
thought that the burning of Alexander
would not have taken place IL the people
the negro would nave been hanged IL
proven guilty of the crime. ct have no
doubt that he was guilty" said the Cover
nor, land that he deserved death. but that
the hands of the law. The death penalty
must be restored In Kansas. erd then
things of this kind will not happen. I
am going to do all i can 20 restore the
death penalty, and i think this awful hap
pening will bring the legislators TO the
same opinion"
ALOCI " ~ III VI NlE oLdIt 81 III IA
ture, when interviewed tonight. expressed
the same idea as Governor Stanley with re-
gard 10 the restoration OF the death pen
atty. They all condemned the burning OF
the negro and expressed the greatest regret
that the affair should nave taken place.
They say that the only way 10 avoid future
acts of the kind will be to make IL possible
to hang a man for the commission of capt.
tai crime. The judiciary committee OF the
Senate announced tonight that a hIfI
would be prepared making death the PEN
H. g. -..l -
where force was used. IL without doubt
will become a law i'm a few days.
DR.. F. s. Nicely. mayor OF Leavenworfh.
was in Topeka when the news came OF the
lynching of Alexander. After talking with
Leavenworth parties about the affair over
the telephone DR.. Nicely said: "I am not
surprised that Alexander was mobbed. I
expected they would hang him and am sur
prised and panied that they should have
resorted TO the stake. There Il no doubt
that Alexander murdered Pearl Forbes. and
the police knew that he has assaulted or
attempted to assault five other Leaven-
worth women. The people demanded his
life. il was simply a question of time.
tiary the people said. They can't keen him
there. Well get him. The sheriff could
not possibly have saved the negro from
the mob with deputies. They talked OF
sending two companies OF militia TO pro-
tect the prisoner. Had IL been done the
people would have lynched the negro lust
the same. A regiment could not have saved
him from the fury OF the outraged peo-
pie"
Asked what the city would do toward
furnishing the mob leaders, DR.. Nicely SAID
that was a subject he had not yet consid-
cred.
Governor Stanley to-night announced that
he would tomorrow morning offer a re.
ward Of $500 for the apprehension OF any
one implicated In the iynching OF Alexander
at Leavenworth. The Governor further
stated that he was sorry he could not offer
a larger reward. but the law only allows
him to offer $500. He said that he was
also going TO instruct the attorney general
at once 10 investigate the conduct OF Sher-
in Everhardy I'm connection with the lynch
ing. and IL IL was found that the sheriff
had in any way violated his trust as an
official. proceedings would be instituted to
GUST him from Office.