The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-12

street and marched through the piinei-
pal streets 70 the arch at Eighth and
Commercial streets.
Confessed at Last.
While in custody of the mob at Beliuap
and coming down the train, the ne
gro would not tell about the crime, but
when he stood under the arch he con-
fessed. He said that Arthur Alexander
was implicated in the crime.
While James body was burning at the
people danced in glee. Before the mob
reached Cairo, some proposed that the
train be stopped and the negro lynched i
at once. but 1t was finally decided to
bring him into Cairo and give the towns
people a chance TO help with the work.
Relatives of the murdered girl took part /
in the lynching.
Mayor Parsons tonight called on Gov
ernOT Deneen for state troops to restore |
order here.
Story of the Crime:
Miss Pelley was an orphan girl, 2 years
old Her home was formerly at Anna,
J Ills, but for two years she had made |
/ her home with her sister. Mrs. John Coff-
man of Cairo. She was ers2loyed as
on Monday evening she left the store
where she worked and walked with her !
| chum Ella Dolan, as far as Miss Doian' S
/ home where she took a car. IT was
raining and to avoid muddy stretch OF
sidewalk, she left the car at twenty
eighth and Elm streets instead OF at syca-
/ more street, as was her custom.
| The finding of the handle or her UNI
| brella in the front yard OF the residence
of Harry Lipe at 424 Twenty-sixth street
/ three doors from the COffman home, indi-
/ Gates that this was where she was fifst
! attacked. 1t is supposed that when sue
was confronted she struck the man win
| her umbrella and the handle flew INTO
the yard.
Girls Horrible Fate.
| Of
gag into her mouth and carried her back
TO Elm street and half block to the
| alley Marks on the ground show that
she was dragged TO the Spot Where s, sic
| was strangled to death. Her fearfuHy
/ bruised and lacerated throat ana /ace
show that she fought desperately.
The alley is narrow, barely wide enough
for a wagon to pass through and is niue
! used and it was after O'Clock the next
morning before the body was found
Katherine Boren,, the three- s,s,a t1,a
alley TO visit her grandmother. came upon
the body Tuesday morning and ran BACK
to call her father.
Miss Pelley's clothing was almost COM
pleteIv torn from her body. The deep
imprints of the fingers that had throttisu
her were on her throat.
Beside her was her hat and her broken
umbrella. Not far away was found hsr
nook of street car tickets. Some post
cards she had been carrying IN ner haiio
were torn in two. Her handbag ana q
QfGSS pattern 6iiC iAeN
Search of the Avengers.
That the Frog" as James was known,
did not hang from the HuStlers arcn az
Eighth and Commercial streets last niSht
was due to the cleverness or Ctlel o.
DoTi.e Morgan and Sheriff Davis in get
ting him out Of the city Inc aei,dtt
Of the northbOund Illinois Central train
at 7:I5 was well timed to the carrying
ou a. u That sile hour Scarcely score of men
we're about the station. He was hustleo
into the patrol wagon ana the wagon W. S
dashjug ue Twelfth street before tue
| watchers realized what had happeheu-
, / They started on p run after It. -
Sheriff Davis and Deputy Fuller mao
, | arranged to have the train stopped az
! TTon~teenth street The wagon ana
train reached Fourteenth street at the
= | same time The tTainmen were or tns
| steps ready to assist Chiei bgan an
, his men. but the wagon had dlstahceu
the pursuers, and James was hurried
ON board and the train pulled out as
! the first pursuers arrived.
Mob Acted Quickly.
: Before the rear lights of the train
were out of sight dozen men nae
hurried UP to the telephones On the
/ second floor OF the IIelsIt nous nc
bv. and were calling Mounds and anna.
! One of the men called a frleno at
Mounds and urged him to notify peo-
| pie at Anna that the negro was on the
2 train.
2 When connection with Anna was o.
: tanned a man there was told 10 or
: game a mob to take James from the
n sheriff Davis and his men left the
5 train at Cairo Junction The destina-
: ton of the sheriff and his prisoner
[ was supposed to be Murfreesboro, but
= Z a telegram from Anna informed MN
I that a mob was gathering at Anna, and
g he left the train at Dongola and drove
: i'm the direction of Mill Creek, on the
{ Mobile 6 Ohio railroad,
r A crowd OF several hundred was al
! the depot. the former home of Miss
= Pelley. when the train reached there
. but no attempt was made TO search the
train for the negro.
When the mob began to gather in
front of the Cairo police station after
the negfO had been taken away mos.
of the crowd refused to believe that
p the negro was not there
Brother Searched the Cells.
: Two men were selected to look
+ through the station cells. They were
. Egan returned. When Chief Egan r.
4 turned Joe Pelley, brother of th'
4 murdered girl, made his way TO tbs
chief and said: Chief, | am brother
C of the girl. l want 10 look thfousI
70 Pellev and another man were per
mitted to go through. While they were
searching, the mob outside made rusl
into the police station Chief ESaT
and his men made stand at the doc.
of the cell ard stopped the first rusi
l. there.
After leaving the train, the sheriff
o.. his deputy and the prisoner hid in thu
n woods near Karnak. twenty-sevel
Il miles from Cairo. train passed
:, through Karnak a little later and Thu
- conductor telegraphed back from tn
y next station that he had seen th'
= deputy and the handcuffed negro be
~ side the railroad track a mile beyon'
Karnak
Train Seized by the Mob.
When a telegram was received b,
- the brothers Of Miss Pelley that tn
trio were in the woods. box car trail
was seized by mob OF 2,2OO men, VIII