The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-18
.LYNCHED BY A MOB|
NEGRO AND WHITE MAN PUT TO DEATH AT CAIRO,
 ILLINOIS.
THE PELLEY MURDER AVENGED
Mob of 10000 Persons Led by Wives of Prominent citIzens-Body of Dead Negro Burned = Militia is Ordered Out By Gov. Deneen.

Cairo. H., Noy. lS.--Led by women, many of them wives of widely known citizens, a mob of 10000 avenged tho murder of Miss Anna Pelley by lynch. ing William James, the negro accused of the attack. When the rope broke and the dying victim fell to the ground hundreds of bullets were fired into his body. The body was then dragged about the streets at the end of rope and was burned while men and women cheered hystcrically. Cairo's lust for vengeance ilas not yet been satisfied. Company A of the Illinois state militia has been ordered to entrain at once from Springfield for this place.
 The peace officers here are helpless. The city swarms with mobs crying for blood of all the negroes in the city. Flying before them is the negro popu- lation Of the city fighting for their lives, carrying what rsoperty they can with them. Precautions are being talk en to prevent burning of the negro homes.
 James was lynched from an arch in the most conspicuous part of the city. Women and children living in the out lying sections of the town, even church workers, gathered at the square and saw the lynching. James pleaded for his life, but his cries were drowned in the shouts of derision from the men and the higher toned screams of the women.
 Before the rope was pulled by the women. James implicated Arthur Alex allder another negro. in the attack on Miss Pelley. No sooner had the other negro's name been mentioned than large part of the mob started away to look for Alexander.
 James known as the Frog" was captured by mob of Cairo citizens, who went up the Big Four railroad about o'clock yesterday afternoon. near Belknap. H., and brought into the city on the Big Four train, arriving here at 7:45 o'clock. James would tell nothing about the crime when at Belk- nap CT when coming down on the train, but when the rope was around his neck he confessed to the murder of Miss Pelley and said that Arthur Alexander was guilty with him.
 Women relatives of the dead girl, backed by at least 800 other women, pulled the rope and the negro shot up in the air ten feet, when the rope. broke and he fell. The mob became frenzied and began shooting Five hundred bullets pierced the negro's body The march to the scene of the crime was then taken up and the body dragged at the end of rope. When the spot where the crime was com mitted was reached fire was built and the body burned. A woman ap- piled the torch.
 The place where the mob caught the sherilf, his deputy and the negro was a cypress swamp about two miles be- low Belknap They were lying on the ground completely tired out and suf- fering from exposure and hunger. Re sIstance by the sheriff was useless. The negro was handcuffed between the two officers and the mob compelled the sheriff 10 shackle him alone. Sheriff Davis says that he protected the negro to the best ef his ability and is sorry that tho law was not allowed to take It's course.
 A White Man Also.
 Henry Salzner white man and a photographer by trade, who killed his wife last July with an ak, was taken out of the county jail at 11:40 o'clock by a mob and hanged to telegraph pole and his body riddled with bullets. This Iynching followed closely that of win James. negro, earlier in the evening. While part of the mob was securing the city for the negro. Alex ander, time hung heavy on the hands of the balance, and when some one suggested Salzner there was rush for was held in steel cage.
 the county jail, where the man wanted