Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-12
JAIL FORCED BY
MOB IN ILLINOIS
lNFURIATED CROWDS SLAY
PRISONERS
TROOPS ORDERED TO SCENE OF
RLooDsHED
Judge Lynch Reluns Supreme in Cairo
and Rioters Thirst for More
Vlctims-Negro First
to Die
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body The mob then dragged the body
more than a mile to the scene of the
murder, where it was burned. Al
least 10000 persons witnessed the
lynching.
Officers Were Overpowered
James was found with Sheriff Davis
at Belknap, near Karnak, ILL.,, by the
crowd from Cairo. The officers were
overpowered. the negro captured and
after a conference 1t was decided to
bring him to Cairo and lynch him here.
Fully 10000 persons went In search
of the negro. When they returned,
they were met by bowling mob Of at
least 5000 more. They marched direct
to the arch, sweeping everything be-
fore them Many women 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 to the scene of action.
When found by the mob, the negro
was handcuffed between two OFFICERS.
All were hiding on the bank or a
creek. All three were so weak from
hunger and exposure that they were
unable to offer much resistance,
Farmers Refused Assistance
Sheriff Davis tonight said that he
deplored the lynching and that he
made every resistance in his power.
He said that after leaving the train
at Dongola last night he tried to get a
rig, but the farmers refuved TO assist
him. 1t was with difficulty that the
sheriff could get anything to eat.
At every point whittier he headed 10
board a train he was blocked by mob.
James was found about o'clock this
afternoon. Word was sent along the
line to the scattered mob to board the
Big Four train and meet the party with
the negro. The whole party arrived
here ON the Big -Four at 7:45 p. m.
The negro was taken off at Tenth
street and marched through the prin-
cipal streets to the arch. While in GUS
tody of the mob at Belknap and COM
ing down on the train the negro would
not tell about the crime, but when he
stood under the arch he confessed.
Danced at Funeral Pyre
While James body was burning at
the spot where the crime was commit
ted 10000 people danced in glee. Before
the mob reached Cairo some preferred
that the train be stopped and the negro
be lynched at once, but 1t was finally
decided to bring him into Cairo and
give the townspeople a chance to help
with the work. Relatives of the muir
dered girl took part In the lynching.
Mayor Parsons tonight called on Gov
ernor Deneen for state troops to restore
order here.
The negros crime was the brutal
murder of Miss Pelley, an orphan girl
% years old. She was employed as a
sales girl. on Monday evening she left
the store and walked with her chum,
Ella Dolan, as far as Miss Dolan's
home, where she took a car. 1t was
raining, and to avoid muddy stretch
of sidewalk she left the car at Twen-
ty-eighth and Elm streets, instead of
at Sycamore as was her custom.
Victims Umbrella Found
The finding of the handle of her UNI
brela in the front yard of the resi-
dence of Harry Lipe at 424 Twenty
sixth street indicated that this was
where she was first attacked. 1t is
supposed that when she was con-
fronted she struck the man with her
umbrella and the handle flew into the
yard.
1t Is believed that the man thrust
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 seventy-five feet
to the spot where she was strangled to
DEATH Her fearfully bruised and
lacerated throat and face show that
she fought desperately.
Salzner, the second victim of the
mob, was born and raised here, being
the son of william Salzner, a hide and
wool buyer. He was a photographer
by trade and had been married about
two years. He had had trouble with
his wife, and 1t was said gave her no
money for food for herself and two
small babies.
Wife Found Dead
One day last July Mrs. Salzner was
found with her skull fractured. A
bloody ak was found under the bed.
Tht two babies were playing in the
blood. Salzner had been seen by
neighbors about the house early in the
evening and was found at the home
of his mother, where he often slept at
night.
All evidence pointed to Salzner as
the slayer of his wife. and after the
crime was discovered Mrs. Salzner re-
covered consciousness long enough to
accuse her husband.
The public was incensed against ham,
and while a part of the mob was scour-
ing the city for the negra, Alexander,
time hung heavily on the hands of the
others. When some one suggested
Salzner the mob rushed for the county
Jail, where the accused man was held
in the steel cage.
CAGE Battered Down
The sheriff and his crowd of deputies
were pushed aside and the battering
down of the door of the cage was at
once begun with a sledge hammer.
The mob found some difficulty in
breaking the cage, a solid steel struc-
ture, but after a half hour of hammer
ing the door gave way and Salzner
was taken out. The mob dragged Salz-
ner to Washington avenue and Twen-
ty-first street, adjoining the public
square.
Salzner cried and begged pteously
for his life, but his appeals were met
by cries and blows from the mob.
When Salzner was asked for his last
statement a stranger stepped forward
and said he believed Salzner was in
nocent, whereupon the mob fell on the
man, kicked and struck him and finally
knocked him down, and it was only by
hard work of the cooler heads of the
mob that his life was saved,
Begged for Mercy
He was compelled to beg for mercy,
and announced in a loud voice that
Salzner should be lynched. after which
he was driven from the mob. Atten
ton was then given to Salzner, who
cried and begged and mumbled that his
sisters had killed his wife, at which
the mob clamored for his execution,
After Salzner was hanged and while
the body was being riddled with bull