The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-12
|RENzIED MOB IN ILLINOIS

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 (Confinued From Page One) <xhey marched direct to the arch. sWeepinE everything before them. I1eany women were out to help do the
 sherfn Makes Flea
 $ 0herfff Davis pleaded for the life oi the negro. but without avail, an>. when Cairo was reached. Davis was {taken in charge by a part of the mo- ixhile the rest rushed the negro ra- ]; pifly to the scene of action. z The mob after the negro was sc fArge that It ccyerea .ile s--...s .~~n., from karnak to Vienna. liI.. a VI. lance of about sixteen miles. When
 found by the mob. tise negro was hand cnffed between the two officers and they All three were so weak from hunger ! and exposure, that they were not aDiu to make much resistance.
 Sherin Davis tonight said that he de- piored the lynching and made every possible resistance in his power but That the crowd was so large that he could do absolutely nothing. He said Y knAt 4ttSI icaNIHs the ttatn aN ASou- xola last night he made an effort to < get q rig but fouAd 1t impossible to tnnd one as the farmers knew of the crime. The sheriffs party could hard fly get anything to eat.
 At every point toward which he head { ed in an attempt to board train. the fsheriff was blocked by mob. James was found about 5 o'clock thts Afternoon and the news was sent along the line to the scattered mob to board { the Big Four train and meet the party twith the prisoner at Belknap. which was. done.
 The negro was taken of at Tenth sEtreet and marched through the prin- tclpal streets of the city to the arch at < Eighth and Commercial Streets. < While in custody of the mob. at Bel knap. and coming down in the train, the negro would not tell about the tcrtme, but when he stood under the Hurch he weakened and confessed and fHaid that Arthur Alexander was impli. csted in the crime.
 Mob Dances In GIee. The body was burned at the spot Z where the crime was committed. while . crowd of 10000 people looked on and < danced In glee.
 The mob came very near getting ofl . the train before it reached the citv and iynching James. but 1t was hnat- ly decided to bring the negro into ECairo and give the people here . chance to help with the work.
 The mob was so large that the re- ssistance of the officers was fruitiess
 The negro James had been in cai- , 'of and on for several days. He came here from the South He said before being 1ynched that an assault had been committed on the girl before she was murdered. and that Arthur Alexander helped him with the crime. M Mayor Parsons has sent to Spring field for State troops. Relatives of rhe murdered girl helped with the 'lynching and they were backed up by . big crowd of women.
 Girl Was Am Orphan. Miss Peliey was an orphan girl, P years old Her home was formerly at Anna. III. For two years she had made her home with her sister, Mrs. John Coffrian, of Cairo. She was en- pioyed as a salesgiri
 On Monday evening she left the store at o'clock and walked with her ehum. Ella Doian, as far as Miss Do- lan's home. 1903 Commercial Street. She took Holdbrook car at Fourteenth and Washington Streets. It was rain- ing and to avoid a muddy stretch of &tQGWAlA. SHE lGII lAG SdE &t AWB1Att- Eighth and Elm Streets. Instead of sycamore Street. as was her cnstom. The finding of the handle of her um- 4rella In the front yard of the resi- dence of Harry Lipe. <24e TwentyASix Street, three doors from the Coffman home, indicates that this was where she was first attacked.
 It is supposed that when she was .nonfronted. she struck the man with l her umbrella and the handle flew Into the yard. It Is believed that the man thrust e gag into her mouth and ear. ried her back to Elm Street and half block to the alley.
 Marks on the ground showed that she was dragged seventy-flve feet to the spot where she was strangied to death.
 Her fearfully bruised and lacerated throat and face showed that she fought desperately.
 The alley Is very narrow, barely wide enough for a wagon to pass through and is little used. It was after B o'clock the next morning before the body was found.
 Katherine Boreen, the three -year-old daughter of W. Bo-een. crossing the alley to visit her grandmother. came supon the body Tuesda.- morning and ran back to call her father.
 Miss Peiiey's clothing was almost completely torn from her body. The deep prints of the fingers that had throttied her were ou her throat. Be- side the body were her hat and her broken umbrella. Not far away was found her book of street car tickets. Some postcards she had been carrying in her hand were torn in-two. Her hand bag and @ dress pattern she had fetsrrha9ad were
 Negro Hurried Away.
 That the "Frog," as James .'as known, did not hang from the Hus- tiers Arch, at Eighth and Commer- ciai Streets. last night. was due to the cieverness of Chief of Police Egan and Sheriff Davis in setting him out of the city. The departure of north bound Illinois Central train at 7:1' o'clock was well timed to the carry ing out of their pls us. At that hour scarcely score of r1en were about the station. He was hustled into the pa- trol wagon and the wagon was dash ing up Twelfth Street before the watchers realized what had happened They started on a run after 1t.
 Sheriff Davis and Deputy Fuller had arranged to have th% train stopped at Fourteenth Street. The wagon and the