The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

fired shot after shot into the negr
body until satisfied he was dead.
was then with cries of glee they Sc
ed the rope that was around his NECK
and dragged his body to the spot
where, the girls body was found and
threw it into huge bonfire.
Negro duplicates Another.
1t was while preparations were be.
ing made to string him up to the
arch that James confessed and impli-
Gated Alexander. He had stubbornly
denied his guilt while being taken to
Cairo on the train but before the big
mob, and looking at the rope which
was about to be put around his neck
he broke down. He told Of the as
sault and declared that Alexander
had some of the jewels taken off of
the girls body.
When found by the mob the negro
was handcuffed between the two Off
GERS, and they were lying on the bank
of creek, and all three Wee 50
weak from hunger and exposure that
they were not able to make much re-
sistance. Sheriff Davis says he de-
plores the lynching and made every
possible resistance in his power, but
that the crowd was so large that he
could absolutely do nothing. He says
that after leaving the train at Don
! COLA at night he ruade an effort tc
TIL
/ find one. as the news had been spread
over the country and that the farmers
knew the crime the negro lad com
4 mitted, and that he could not get as
sistance and hardly anything to eat
At every point where he headed tt
4 board a train he was blocked by !
I! mob.
4 Militia Ordered to Cairo.
! SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, Nov. 12-Fol
lowing the rioting in Cairo, H., las
i night and the lynching there, Sheriff
Frank e. Davis of Alexander Count.
! wired to the governor of Illinois ii
this city for assistance.
4 Orders were Immediately transmit
ted to have Company K Fourth Illin
ois National Guard, with headqual
ters in Carlo, to respond to the order
of the sheriff. The State Department
refused to give an expression upo
| the rioting until further investigation
] Col Richings j. Shand of the adjutan
: generals office was sent to Cairo t
! investigate. Gov. Deneen is in Chico
go.
The Second Lynching.
= CAIRO, Nov. 12-Cairo last nigh
was a seething mob. Henry Sell
Q ner, white. a photographer, VIII
{. it is alleged killed his wife
Q July with an axe, was taken OF
of the county jail at 11:40 by th
r mob and hanged to telegraph pol
y and his body riddled with bullet
Q The lynching followed closely that {
James
The mob had difficulty in breakin
into the steel cage in the jail, but a
Is ter half an hour of telling blows u
e. on the door, it gave way. Salzner W;
% secured and the mob rushed him o.
o the back boor of the Jail, which Is
Is the basement of the court hous
g around the building into Washingte
1t avenue, up to Twenty-first street,
lie prominent corner, where room WI
r, found in the gaping crowd. Salzn
{ oh tn
le the rope was around his neck, b
was SO frightened that he only mi
lie mered that his sisters did the KILN
p,
ID Mob Grew More Furious.
lie The mob became furious at this.
d was hard to keep them off lo
lg enough to give Salzner a chance
,b pray. Finally short religious sci
al ice was held, then Salzner was har
er ed. the rope being placed over a tie
graph pole. Salzner was native
IL Cairo, the son of a hide and wool b,
a er. 1t is known he had trouble wi
fol- his wife and is said to have not S,
b. ported her and two babies.
,e Salzners wife was found at !
T. home with her skull fractured,
,e bloody axe under the bed Salzr
ne had been seen in the house earli
b. and after the crime was discover
en- he was found at his mothers hol
lg where he often slept.
Ill Mrs. Salzner recovered sufficien
to accuse her husband. The pub
y was incensed. and while part of