Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-12
WILD MOB
KILLS TWO
INILLINOIS
Negro and White Man Are
Lynched
MILITIA is ORDERED OUT TO
QUELL RIOTS
THIRD MAN MAY BE SLAIN BY
INFURIATED CROWD
Five Companies of Troops Are Being
Rushed to Cairo to Prevent Fur
ther Dlsorder-Aspect
Threatening
THIRD MAN MAY BE SLAIN BY
INFURIATED CROWD
BULLETIN


In telephone conversation with
Paducah police chief early this
morning, the night chief of police
at Carlo reported that Sheriff
Davis, with the negro Alexander
in tow, was running through the
city and occasionally seeking
&C yer, the mob in close pursuit.
The first of the militia is ex-
pected at $50 a. m. and the sher-
iff is attempting to keep his
man from the mob until then.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Nov. 12.-2 a. m.-Arthur
Alexander, a negro implicated by
James as an accomplice in the murder
of Miss Pelley, was found by the police
early this morning and kept away
from the mob.
Alexander was dressed up in a po-
lieeman's clothes and taken through
the city by two police officers early
this morning. but some watchers from
the mob soon discovered this and the
mob was put after him, but up to 2
o'clock he had not been found.
Especial to The Heraid.l
OAIRO, Ill, Nov. 1.-Two
4 men have been lynched here
" within the last twelve hours.
A third lynching is feared. Five
companies of the state militia
have been ordered here by Gov
ernor Deneen and still there is
no abatement of the excitement.
The trouble started when Will
James, the negro suspected of
being the murderer of Miss Annie
Pelley, was dragged into the city
tonight, lynched by the mob in
front of 10000 persons and his
body burned.
The next victim of the mob
was Henry Salzssf, white man
and a photographer by trade,
who is charged with killing his
wife with an AK last July. He
was taken from the county jail
by the mob at 11:15 O'Clock to-
night and hanged to telephone
pole. Later his body was riddled
with bullets.
Sheriff Frank Davis, after the
first lynching, sent a hurry call
to Governor Deneen, asking for
assistance, and the governor at
once ordered out five companies
of the national guard, whose
headquarters were most available,
to quell the excitement.
saIzner Protests Innocence
Tonight Cairo is seething mob.
Henry Salzner, q white man, and a
photographer by trade, accused OF
killing his wife last July with an ak,
was taken from the county jail at
11:15 o'clock by the mob and hanged
to telegraph pole. His body was
riddled with bullets. This lynching
followed closely that of Will James,
negro, earlier in the evening.
The mob gave Salzner chance to
confess after the rope was around his
neck, but he could only humble that
his sister had done the killing. At this
! the mob became furious and 1t was
hard work to keep them off Salzner
long enough to give him a chance to
pray. The frenzy finally subsided ana
short religious service was peio'
after which he was strung up, the
rope being placed over a telegraph
pole at Twenty-f1rst and Washington
streets.
Negro Chase Started Riot
The frenzy of the mob was excited
| by the chase after and subsequent
Iynching of Will James, the negro
suspected of being the murderer OF
Miss Annie Pelley.
When James was strung up to the
Hustlers arch the rope broke and al
| least 500 shots were poured into his
body. He made a partial confession
and implicated the negro Arthur AL
exander, whom the mob is now seek
! ing.
James was lynched in the most
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