The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-12
CONFESSED MURDERER OF GIRL
BURNED NEAR SCENE OF CRIME
Mad for Blood Surgng Crowd Storms Jail Drags White Pho
tographer to Quick Fae--Aleged Accomplce Of First
Victim Of Peoples Fury Saved by Police
-Deneen Orders Troops Out

/ Cairo. Nov. 1.-THE situation n,
! 2:45 a. m. is very quiet in the down
! town section and no evidence that a
mob had run riot can b. seen. The
! mob has dispersed to 4 great extent
but the search for Alexander still
! goes on in the upper part, or negro
! section. of the city and his capture
| would be the cause for an immediate
/ mob alarm and he would be lynched
! at once.
| Cairo. H., Nov. ll.-With two men
| lynched by an angry mob. another in
imminent danger and the streets filled
with wild eyed men, thirsty for moro
blood. Cairo after "A sleepless night of
murder and riot. waits anSiousiy for
the hundreds of soldiers that are on
the way to quell the mob at the or
ders of Governor Deneen.
viii "Froggs' James. a negro. con-
fessed murderer of Annie Peiley. was
hanged, riddled with bullets and
burned early in the night after a thou
sand determined men had chased
Sheriff Davis and the negro for "a
hours.
Henry Salznor. white. held for
| uxoricide. was taken from a steel cell
in the county Jail and hanged and shot
by the infuriated men, who up to that
| time were unsuccessful in capturing
Arthur Alexander, a negro implicated
by James as an accomplice i'm the
Staying of Miss Peliey.
Police Escape With Alexander.
Alexander was at last found by the
police, who succeeded in ehding the
mob by ruse. Although the horrors
| of a race war have not broken out
| during the night. peaceable citizens
have begun to fear that repetition
of the Springfield riots of last year
| was imminent. At Springfield two
| negroes were lynched. four .other per-
sons killed and so wounded.
With the arrival of armed troops It
is thought that further rioting will be
avoided. The 1000 men roaming the
streets up until daybreak had access
tn many saloons. which remained open
all night Mayor Parsons and the
chief of police We're unable 10 close
the saloons because they were shut
up at home by the mob. Soldiers OF
the Cairo militia finally went to guard
the homes of the municipal office,
and kept the rioters in some restraint
James was lynched i'm the most
prominent square of the city and hung
to the arch at Eighth and Commercial
! streets. Women present were the frs,
! To pull the rope. When it broke the
| frenzy of the mob was uncontrollabl,
4 tI,a.
the body. shooting him To pieces. The
mob then dragged the body over the
| streets for more than Il mile to the
scene of the murder. where it was
| burned.
Ten Thousand Witnesses.
At least 10000 people witnessed the
| lynching. james was found with
Sheriff Davis between karnak, H.. and
| Belknap. by the crowd from Cairo
/ The officers We're overpowered. the
negro captured. and after "a conference
it was decided To bring him to Cairo
| and lynch him here.
Fully 1000 people went in search of
the negro. When they returned they
We're met by IA howling mob of at
least 5000 more. They marched di-
rect To the arch. 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 in
charge by part Of the mob. while the
| rest rushed the negro to the scene of
action.
When found by the mob. the negro
was handcuffed between two officers
All We're hiding on the bank of a
creek. All three were So weak from
hunger and exposure that they made
little show of resistance.
Sheriff Davis said tonight that he
depiored the lynching and that he
made every resistance in his power.
He said that after leaving the train
at Dongola last night he tried to get
n rig. but found II impossible to find
one as the farmers refused To assist
him. II was with difficulty that the
sheriff could get anything To eat.
Sheriff Blocked at Every Point.
At every point whittier he headed
to board train he was blocked .,y a
mob. James was found about ) O'Clock
rived here on the Big Faur at .:45
p. m. The negro was taken off at
Tenth street and marched To III. arck
at Eighth and Commercial streets. As
James stood under the arch he con-
fessed. He said that Arthur Alex
ander was implicated in the crime.
While James body was burning at
the spot where the crime was commit
ted. 10000 people danced in slee. Reia-
tives of the murdered girl took part
in the lynching.
That the Frog" as James was
known. did not hang from the Hustlers
arch at Eighth and Commercial streets
last night was due to the cleverness
Of Chief of Police Egan and Sheriff
Davis in getting him out of the city.
The departure of northbound Illinois
Central train at 7:i5 WAS well-timed
to the carrying out of their plans.
Sheriff Davis and Deputy Fuller had