Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-12
COURAGEOUS SHERIFF ONLY
DELAYS MOB'S VENGEANCE.

tdlfO. Ill, NOV. H. lhot ih'
Frog. as James was known, did not
hang from the Hustler's Arch, AT
| Eighth aud Commercial streets, last
night was due to the clcverncss of
IChief Of Police Egan and Sheriff
| Davis in getting him out of the city.
The departure of ~northbound Illinois
| Central train at 7:15 was well timed
to further the carrying out Of their
plans.
At that hour scarcely n score Of
men were about the station. He was
! hustled into the patrol x and he
| wagon was dashed up Twelfth street
| before the watchers realized what had
happened They started on a run af-
ter It. Sheriff Davis and Deputy Full
Ter had arranged TO have the train
stopped at Fourteenth streen. The
| wagon and train reached Fourteenth
street al the same time. The train
men were on the steps ready 70 assist
Chief ERan and his men, but the
wagon had distanced the pursuers and
James was hurried on board and the
train pulled out as the first pursuers
arrived,
Before the rear lights Of the train
were but of sight a dozen men had
hurried up to the telephones on the
second floor Of the freight house
nearby and were calling Mounds and
Anna. one of the men called a friend
at Mounds and urged him to notify
the people at Anna that the negro was
on the train.
When connection with nm was
obtained a man there was told TO or
gnnize a mob and take James from
the train.
sheriff Davis and his men left the
train at Cairo Junction.
The destination of the sheriff and
his prisoner was supposed to be Muir
p%hysboro, but a telegram from Anna
informed him that II mol was gather
ing al Anna and he left the train at
Dongola and drove In the direction
Of Min Creek. on the Mobile a. Orio
railroad, A crowd of several hundred
was NJ the depot at the former home
of Miss Policy, 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 negro had been taken away, most
Of the crowd refused To believe hat
the negro was not there.
Two men were selected to look
through the siation cells. They were
told they could not do SO until Chief
Egan returned when chief Egan re-
turned. Joe Pellep. a brother of the
murdered girl. made his way to the
chief and said;
Chief, ! ann a brother of the girl,
want &c look through the cells
Pelley and another man We're per-
mitted to go through. While they
were searching the mob outside made
u rush into the police station. chief
Epan and his men made a stand with
the door of the cell and stopped the
first there.
After leaving the train, the sheriff,
his deputy and the prisoner hid I'm the
woods near Karnak, twenty-sevon
miles from Cairo. a train passed
through karnak a little later, and the
conductor telegraphcd back from the
next station that he had seen the de
putty and the hand-cuffed negro be
side the railroad track II mile beyond
karnak.
When a telegram VAS received by
the brothers of Miss Policy that the
trio were In the woods there, n box
ear train was seized by q mob of goo,
who rode II into Karnak. The negro
was captured and brought back 90
Cairo.