The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-11-19
Two men rYNCHED At CAIRO, Ill.
NEGRO AND WHITE MAN, BOTH MURDERERS. TAKEN
FROM OFFICERS BY FRFNzIED MOB AND
STRUNG UP ON MAIN STREET.

Cairo. Illinois. After three days
Of mob spirit eliminating In the lynch
ing Of two men during the night. and
hours Of disorder. Cairo u practically
under martial law. Troops rushed tc
the city By order Of Gov. Denesn are
patroliing the streets.
With The arrival Of the troops, In
the early hours Of the morning. IN at,
tempt Was made TO bring back = sem.
blance OF order after hours OF the
widest rioting southern Illinois has
ever known.
From the time late Thursday. when
800 men and ONE seized 4 Big Four
freight train and started out In the
guest Of Will James. who Wa being
hidden IN the woods by the sheriff and
= deputy. until two bodies had been
swung up and that OF the negro
burned. the people Of Cairo have
secuted the authority Of law officers.
With Arthur Alexander. the last Of
the persons arrested In connection
with the murder here Monday last Of
Miss Annie Policy. safely out Of town.
and some $50 members OF the Fourth
regiment. Of the Illinois National
Guard. On guard In the streets and
about the Jail. the mob spirit that has
held Cairo for four days was quelled.
No crowds are allowed to gather
and every known danger point Is oc-
cupied by troops. Bayonets sway
where "a hours before the rope. the
torch and the pistol had been in ev-
idence.
Alexander. who was reported to
have been implicated In the murder
Of Miss Policy by the dying state
ment Of -Froggy" James, one Of the
victims Of Thursday nights mob, was
sent to an unannounced point north
OF here. He was escorted from the
jail TO . special train on the Illinois
Central railroad by seven companies
OF militia. two Of which were assigned
TO guarding the train.
WIN James. the negro. the murderer
OF Miss Annie Pelley, was the first vic.
tim Of the mob. James was strung up
to the public arch. the rope breaking
and at least 500 shots were poured in
to his body. He made . partial con-
fession and implicated another negro,
Arthur Alexander.
Women present, were the frst to
pull the rope. When II broke the
frenzy OF the mob was uncomfortable
and they fired volley after volley into
his body, shooting him to pieces. The
mob then dragged the body over the
streets for more than Z mile to Twenty.
sixth and Elm streets in m alley and
burned II where the murder Was com
nitted.
James was found with Sheriff Davis
between Karnak. H.. and Belknap, by
the Cairo crowd who went up from
here
Taken from omesrs.
The crowd overpowered the omcers
and took the negro from them and
after . conference II was decided to
bring the negro back to this city and
lynch him here.
Fully 1000 people went up to help
md the negro and when they arrived
n Cairo they we're met BY . bowling
mob Of Ut least 5000 more. They
marched direct to the arch. sweeping
everything before them. Many women
wsre out 70 help do the work.
TIE mob after the negro grew 20
large that Il took II the entire coun.
try from Karnak 70 Venice. Ill, . dis-
tance of shout 1e miles.
He said befoge being lynched that
The assault had been committed On the
girl before being murdered and that
Arthur Alexander helped him with the
Story ~ the Crime.
Miss PeIly was IN orphan girl, q
years Old She Vas employed a .
Galeswoman.
On Monday sveaing Il was raining
and to avoid . muddy stretch Of side
walk. she left her Z at Twsnty-sighth
and E1m streets instead Of at Sycamore
street, - vas her custom.
Katherine BOren. 3-yearold-dau9hter
Of w. C. Boren. came upon the body
Tuesday morning.. Miss Pelley's cloth
fng was almost completely torn from
her body. The deep prints Of the
fingers that had tArottled her were on
her throat. Beside her was her hat
and her broken umbrella Not far
away was found her book OF street .
tickets. Some postcards she had been
carrying In her hand were torn In
two. Her handbag and . dress pattern
she had purchased were gone.
Mob lene Thwarted.