The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-12

Fully 1000 people went up to help find the negro and when they arrived in Cairo they were met by a bowling mob of at least 5000 smore. They marched direct to the arch, sweeping everything before them Many wo- men were out to help do the work.
 Sheriff Davis pleaded for the life Of the negro, but without avail. and when Cairo was reached Davis was taken in charge by part of the mob. while the rest rushed the negro rap idly do the scene of action. The mob after the negro was so large that it covered the entire coun- | try from Karnak to Vienna, H., q distance of about sixteen miles. When found by the mob, the negro was handcuffed between two officers and they were lying on the bank of a creek All ehrse were so weak from hunger and exposure that they were not able to make much resistance.
 Sheriff Davis tonigtt eaid that he deplcred the lynching and made ev- eqy possible resistance in his power, but that the crowd was so large that he could do absolutely nothing i He said that after leaving the train at Dongola lest night. he made an ef- fort to get rig, but found it impos- sible to find one, as the farners knew the crime the negro had committed. The sherif's party could hardly get anything to eat. l At every point toward which he headed. in an attempt to board train he WIS blocked by a mob.
 James was found about o'clock i this aeternoon, and the news was sent along the line to the scattered mob to board the Big Four train and meet the party with the prisoner at Bel knap. which was done
 The negro wss taken off at Tenth street and marched through the prin- cipal streets of the cit yto the most public location under the city arch at Eighth and Commercial streets. | While in custody of the mob at Bel knap and coming down on the train. 1 the negro would not tell about the crime but when he stood under the arch he weakened and confessed, and said Arthur Alexander was implicated in the crime.
 The body was burned at the spot where the crime was committed, while a crowd of 10000 people looked on and danced in glee. The mob came very near getting off the train before l it reached the city and lynching James, but it was finally decided to bring the negro into Cairo and give the people here chance to help with the work
 The mob was so large here that the
 The negro James has been in Cairo off and on for several years. He l-came here from the south. He said before being lynehed that an assault had been committed on the girl be fore she was murdered and that Alex arder helped him with the crime.
 Mayor Parsons has sent to Spring field for state u9ops. Relatives of the murdered girl helped with the lynch ing, and they were backed up by a big crowd of women.
 Miss Pelly was an orphan, g years old. Her home was formerly at Anna, l H.
 | For two years she has made her home with her sister, Mrs. John Golf man, of Cairo. She was employed as a sales girl
 I On Monday evening. she left the sore at o'clock and walked with her chum, Iclla Dolan. as far as Miss. Do. Ilan's home, 1903 Commercial street. She took a Holbqool car at Four teenth and Washington street. It was raining, and to avoid muddy strecch of sidewalk, she left the car at l Twenty Eighth and Elm streets, in- stead Of Sycamore. as was her GUS tom.
 The finding of the handle of her umbrella in the front yard of the residence of Harry Lipe, at 424 ] Twenty1sixth street. three doors from the coffman honse, indicates that this