The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-11-13
TROOPS PATROL
AN ILLINOIS CITY
Sent to Cairo Following a
Double Lynching.
MOB EAGER TO SHED BLOOD

After strineing Up Negro Accused of
Numbering Young White Woman
the Crowd Storms the Jail, seizes
Alleged Wife Slayer and Hangs Him
to Telegraph PoIe-Negro's Body
cremated Near Scene of His Crime.
Cairo, ILL.,. Nov. 13.-After three
days of mob spirit, eliminating in the
lynching of two men, Cairo is prac-
tically under martial law. Troops
rushed to the Southern Illinois city
by order of Governor Deneen are pa
trolling the streets.
With the arrival of the troops in
the early hours of the morning an at
tempt was made to bring back sem
blance of order after hours of TIE
widest rioting Southern Illinois has
ever known.
From the time when 800 men and
women seized Big Four freight train
and started out in quest of Will James,
alias Frog, who was being hidden in
the woods by the sheriff and dep
uty, until two bodies had been swung
up and that of the negro burned the
people of Cairo have secuted the au.
thority of law officers.
After James, who was accused of
the brutal murder of Anna Pelley, had
been hanged and his body cremated
the mob, still thirsting for blood,
stormed the Jail and took out Henry
Salzner, white. accused of the murder
Of his wife, and hanged him.
Then the leaders began a search for
another negro, Arthur Alexander,
whom James implicated in a confes-
sion maze IN whispers after the rope
had been placed around his neck. In
this hunt the mob was unsuccessful.
II is believed that the negro has left
Cairo and is now in East ST. Louis.
Ten Thousand in Mob.
Ten thousand people helped execute
James. The negro was hanged to an
arch In the center of the business
section of the city. Women, said to
be friends and relatives of the MUIR
dered girl, pulled the rope that
dragged the negro up.
The lynching was coolly planned by
the men who went into the woods de
terlnined tc bring James back. The
mob left the train at karnak and
started towards Belknap. Between
the two places the exhausted sheriff
who made a valiant effort to save his
prisoner, was found.
Handcuffed between Davis and his
deputy the negro, trembling with fear,
was found lying under overhanging
bushes along the bank of a little
creek. The sheriff and the others
were almost exhausted.
The mob held a council and decided
that the negro should be taken back
to Cairo so that the people there could
have hand in the execution. Then
the mob went to Belknap, where the
members boarded a train for Cairo
Sheriff Davis went ON the same train
still endeavoring to protect his pris
oner.
When they reached Cairo the streets
were crowded and infuriated people
were gathered about the station. The
negro was pushed and pulled towards
the big arch at Eighth and CONNER
cial streets. where he was halted. a
rope was produced and one end tied
around his neck Then he was asked
u he had any confession to make.
duplicates Another Negro.
The crowd took up the question
Confess: confess" they yelled. Their
the one short sentence which the
crowd took as confession fell from
his lips
.'Alexander helped" he whispered
There was hoarse shout and the
rope, held in the hands of woman
was yanked and the negro pulled vi
ward For a second the mob wa
quiet as It gazed at the swinging body
Then tie rope broke and the bod
plunged towards the street,
A!nost before it had struck tn
pavemrn. revo.vers flashed in tn
electric lights and hundreds Of shot
hao heen fired at the quivering bod
OF the giant coal HEAVIER.
The body lay on the street only a
instant before the crowd was upon II
Then followed one of the wildes
scenes in the history Of mob violence
While thousands hOoted, yelled an
dance. about a man with a knit
slashed at the body. When it ha
been hacked up the dead negro
dragged by e piece of the rope sti
around his neck, was pulled throug
the streets to an alley where the mu
der occurred. A bonfire had been a
ranged and the body was thrown Q
Il. A woman is said to have apple
. match and the crowd watched unit
the corpse had been burned to ashe
Then began q hunt for Alexande