Evening journal., 1909-11-12
CAIRO UNDER
TROOPS GUARD
Arrived Too Late to Prevent
Double LynChinG in an
Illinois City
FARMERS REFUSED TO
ASSIST THE SHERIFF
BY United Press Leased Special wire

CAIRO, ILL.,. Nov 12.-Martial law
prevails here today and ten companies
OF National Guardsmen, their bayonets
hxed, have succeeded in cowing the
lawless element which has had possess
sion OF the streets since yesterday
Afternoon. The troops arrived too late
to prevent the lynching OF VIII James,
the negro assaiiant OF Miss Anna Pei
ley and Henry Sazner. the white man,
whose wife accused him OF inhicting
fatal hurts on her. but the leaders of
the mob are to be punished II Governor
Dineen has his way.
The civ authorities have been power
lessless 20 control the situation either
because they feared TO shoot 20 XIII
or because they were actuated by sem
timental reasons. but the military have
no such scruples.
Mob Stormed the Jail.
After James, who was accused OF the
brutal murder OF Anna Pelley had been
hanged and his body cremated, the
mob, stil thirstlng for blood, stormod
the Jail and took out Salzner and
hanged him Then the leaders began
search for another negro. Arthur
Alexander, whom James implicated In
"a confession made In whispers after
the rope had been placed about his
neck. In this hunt the mob was un-
successful. II is said the negro Is now
/ in East st. Louis. Early today, Just
before the troops arrived tho mob
caught a negro supposed to be Alex
ander. He was hiding In a box car
/ Il turned out later that he was not
Alexander and he was allowed to so.
Ten thousand people helped execute
James. The negro was hanged TO an
arch In the centre OF the business Sec
ton OF the city. Women said TO be
friends and relatives OF the murdered
girl helped pull the rope.
Lynehers Deliberate.
The lynchng was coolly planned by
men who went into the woods to bring
James back. The mob left the train
at Karnak and started towards Belk-
map. Between the two places, the eX-
hausted sheriff who made valiant
effort TO save his prisoner was found
Handcuned between Davis and his
deputy. the negro trembling with feai
was found lying under overhanginl
bushes along the bank OF little creek
THE shcriq and party we're almost eA
hauHted.
Thursday night they started fror
Cairo They left the train when the
heard that a mob was after James an
would head them or az Anna. the for
liner home OF the murdered girl Thi
train on which they had tried to reaci
Murphysborough was entered and
searched FOR the negro. Davis made
every effort TO get the prisoner 70 a
railroad where he could be taken TO
Murphysborough. where Il was believed
he would be safe. Mobs organized for
a man hunt were reported ahead Of
him, no matter which way he turned
and the sheriff decided 10 try and hide
his mand I'm the woods until quiet
was restored The farmers In the
neighborhod had heard OF the crime
land refused TO help Davis In his effort
to save the negro.
They would not give Davis horses
with which 20 outrido his pursuers and
only a scanty supply OF food could be
obtained
When the mob overlook Davis he
was exhausted and could offer no re-
sistance and the armed men seized him
prisoner.
The mob decided that the negro
should be taken back TO Cairo so that
the people there could have a hand in
the execution. Then the mob went "a
Belknap, where the members boarded
train for Cairo. Davis went on the
same train still endeavoring to protest
his prisoner.
When they reached Cairo the streets
we're crowded with a thousand infuri-
ated people The negro was pushed
and pulled toward the big arch al
Eighth and Commercial streets, where
he was halted. A rope was produced
: and one end tied around his neck.
Then he was asked II he had any con-
fession to make. The crowd took up
the CONFESS! confess!" they yelled.
Then the one sentence which the crowd
took for a confession fell from the
lips Of the black.
Alexander helped" he whispered.
There was a hoarse shout and the
rope. held in the hands of a woman.
was yanlSed and the negro pulled up
ward. For a second the mob was
quiet as II gazed at the swinging body
Then the rope broke and the body
plunged toward the street. Almost
before il had struck the pavement re-
volvers flashed in the electric lights
and hundreds Of shots had been fired
at the quvering body OF the giant
coal HEAVIER.
The body lay on the street only an
instant before the crowd was upon Il.
Then followed one Of the widest
scenes I'm the history OF mob violence.
While thousands around hooted and
howled and danced, a man with a
knife slashed at the body. When it
had been hacked up the dead negro.
dragged by a piece Of rope still about
his neck, was pulled through the
streets to an alley where the murder
occurred. A bonfire had been arranged
and the body was thrown on it. A
woman is said to have applied a match
and the crowd watched until the corpse
had been burned to ashes. Then be-
gan a hunt for Alexander. the negro
said to have helped James murder
Miss Pelley. After a few hours the
hunt was abandoned. but the mob went
TO the county Jail. where Henry Salz-
ner. accused of the murder of his wife.
was held. The crowd battered down
the jail doors after an hours work
and took Salzner out
He was taken TO a telegraph pole
and asked to confess.
A mortal fear upon him. he could
hardly speak. He muttered something
about his sisters, and the crowd
thought he meant TO accuse them Of
the murder of his wife for which he
was held. In increased their anger