The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12
LUST FOR BLOOD.
1t Takes Possession of the PeO-
pie Of Cairo,
Causing Them to Lynch Two
Men and Seek Another.
MISS PELLEY'S SLAYER
Is Taken From Officers, Hanged
and Shot to Pieces.
A Wife Murderer Is Taken From
Jail and Dispatched.
MISS PELLEY'S SLAYER

Cairo. Ill. Nov ia double lynch
ing took place here last night After a
search lasting over "a hours. a MOB
found "F'roggy'' James, the negro ac-
cused of the murder of Annie Pelley
and hanged him and riddled his BODY
with bullets.
Shortly afterwards the mob stormed
the Jail, took Henry Salzener from his
cell after battering the doors down
with sledgehammers. hanged him ana
fired such a fusillade of shots into his
body that the rope was cut by bullet
James was strung up to the pubic
arch, the rope broke and at least 500
shots were poured into his body He
made a partial confession and impli-
Gated the negro, Arthur Alexander. and
the mob Immediately began search
for him.
James was lynched in the most
prominent square of the city, Eighth
and Commercial streets.
Women present were the first to pull
the rope When it broke the frenzy Oh
the mob was uncomfortable and they
fired volley after volIey into his body,
shooting the negro to pieces.
The mob then dragged the body over
the streets for more than a mile 10
Twenty-sixth and Elm streets in an
was committed.
Overpowered Officers.
AT least 10000 people witnessed the
lynching James wis discovered with
Sheriff Davis between Karnak, Ill, and
Belknap, by the Cairo crowd, who Went
up yesterday afternoon. The crowd
oVerpowered the officers and took the
negro from them and after a conference
1t was decided to bring the negro back
to this city and lynch him here.
Fully 1000 people went up to help find
the negro and when they arrived in
Cairo they were met by howHng moo
of at least 5000 more.
They marched direct to the arcn
sweeping everything before them. Many
women were out to help do the work.
Sheriff Davis pleaded for the life OF
the negro. but without avail and when
Cairo was reached Davis was taken III
charge by part of the mob. while the
rest rushed the negro rapidly to the
scene of action. The mob which
searched for the negro was so large
that it covered the entire country from
Karnak to Vienna, ILL.,, distance or
about 16 miles. When found the negro
was handcuffed between the two offi-
GERS and they were lying on the bank
OF a creek. All three were so weak
from hunger and exposure that they
were not able to make much resistance
Crowd Was Too Large.
Sheriff Davis said he deplored the
lynching and made every possible re-
sistance i'll his power. but the crowd
was too large.
The sheriff said that after leaving the
train az Dongola he made an effort to
secure rig, but found it impossible
as the farmers knew the crime the ne
gro had committed and they refused
him assistance. He was scarcely able
to get anything to eat. At every point
toward which the sheriff headed to
board q train he was confronted by
a mob. Sheriff Davis said it was impoS-
sible to turn in any direction and es-
cape the vigilance committees. He was
surrounded at all times. James was
found at o'clock in the afternoon and
news was sent along the line to the
scattered mob to board the Big -Four
train and meet the captorS at Belknap
The mob came near getting off the train
before it reached the city and iynching
James, but it was finally decided to
bring the regro into Cairo and give the
Cairo people an opportunity to assist
In the hanging.
While in custody of the mob at Belk-
nap and coming here on the train,
the negro would not talk. but when he
stood under the arch he weakened and
confessed. James said that the assault
had been committed on the girl before
icing murdered and that Arthur Alex
ander helped MIN with the crime.
Lynching of SaIzener.
Henry SalZSn6I, d WIlle HAL anu a
photographer by trade, who killed his
wife last July with an axe. was taken
out of the county Jail at 11:1 o'clock
by the mob and hanged to a telegraph
pole and his body riddled with LllletS.
This lynching followed closely that of
Will James, the negro, earlier in the
evening.
The mob gave Salzener a chance To
confess after the rope was around his
neck but he was so frightened that he
could only humble that his sisters did
the killing.
The mob became furious at this and
It was hard work to keep them off him
long enough to give him a chance to
pray. The mob finally subsided and
short religious service for the uplift of
his soul was held after which he was
Strung up, the rope being placed over a
telegraph pole at Twenty-firSt ani
Washington streets.
Salzener was born and reared here.
being the son of William Salzener. q
hide and wool buyer. Salzener was Il
photographer and had been married
about two years
Last July Salzeners wife was found
at her home with her skull fractured
and a bloody axe was found under > :
bed The two babies were playing in
the blood. Salzener had been seen by
the neighbors about the house early in
the evening and after the crime was
discovered Salzener was found at the
slept at night. Mrs. Salzener recovered
enough before she did to accuse her
husband of the crime
Time Hung Heavy
The public was incensed against him
and while part OF the mob was securing
the city for the negro Alexander, time
hung heavy on the hands of the bal
ance of the mob and when some one
suggested Salzener, the mob rushed for
the county Jail where the man wanted
was held in a steel cage. The sheriff
and his crowd of deputies were pushed
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