Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-18

! of mob spirit eliminating in the lynch
4 ing of two men during the night, and
hours Of disorder, Cairo is practically
under martial law. Troops rushed to
the city by order of Gov. Deneen are
/ patrolling the streets.
| With The arrival of the troops, in
4 the early hours of the morning, an at.
1 tempt was made to bring back sem.
/ blance of order after hours of the
widest rioting southern Illinois has
ever known
From the time late Thursday, when
300 men and women seized Big -Four
freight train and started out in the
quest of Will James, who was being
hidden in the woods by the sherin and
a deputy, until two bodies had been
swung up and that of the negro
burned, the people Of Cairo have
secuted the authority Of law officers
With Arthur Alexander, the last Of
the persons arrested in connection
with the murder here Monday last of
Miss Annie Pelley, safely out of town,
and some $50 members of the Fourth
regiment, of the Illinois National
Guard. on guard in the streets and
about the Jail, the mob spirit that has
held Cairo for four days was quelled.
No crowds are allowed to gather
and every known danger point is oc-
cupied by troops. Bayonets sway
where "a hours before the rope, the
torch and the pistol had been in ev-
| idence.
| Alexander, who was reported to
have been implicated in the murder
of Miss Policy by the dying state
ment of "Froggy" James. one of the
victims of Thursday nights mob, was
sent to an unannounced point north
of here. He was escorted from the
| jail to special train on the Illinois
Central railroad by seven companies
of militia, two of which were assigned
to guarding the train.
Will James, the negro, the murderer
of Miss Annie Pelley, was the first vic.
tim of the mob. James was strung up
to the public arch, the rope breaking
and at least 500 shots were poured in
to his body. He made a partial con
fession and implicated another negro
Arthur Alexander.
Women present, were the first to
pull the rope. When it broke the
frenzy of the mob was uncomfortable
and they fired volley after volley into
his body, shooting him to pieces. The
mob then dragged the body over the
streets for more than mile to Twenty
siYtha and Him ctraotc Il, ~, ,lyo,, ..a
burned it where the murder was com
mitted
James was found with Sheriff Davis
between Karnak, ILL.,, and Belknap, by
the Cairo crowd who went up from
here.
Taken from Officers.
The crowd overpowered the officers
and took the negro from them and
after conference it was decided to
bring the negro back to this city and
lynch him here.
Fully 1000 people went up to help
find the negro and when they arrived
in Cairo they were met. by bowling
mob of at least 5000 more. They
marched direct to the arch, sweeping
everything before them. Many women
were out to help do the work.
The mob after the negro grew so
large that it took in the entire coun-
try from Karnak to Venice, ILL.,, a dis
lance Of about 16 miles.
He said before being lvnched that
the assault had been committed on the
girl before being murdered and that
Arthur Alexander helped him with the
Story Of the Crime.
Miss Pelly was an orphan girl, %
years old. She was employed as a
saleswoman.
On Monday evening 1t was raining
and to avoid muddy stretch Of side.
walk, she left her car at Twenty-eighth
and Elm streets instead Of at Sycamore
street, as was her custom.
Katherine Boren, 3-year-old- daughter
Of w. G. Boren, came upon the body
Tuesday morning. Miss Pelley,s cloth
ing was almost completely torn from
her body. The deep prints Sof the
fingers that had throttlell her were on
her throat. Beside her was her hat
aHu nSI4 4UIOhSuGA uulUIGlld. f5 CNOL "A at
away was found her book OF street car
tickets. Some postcards she had been
carrying IN her hand were torn in
1.-TWO. Her handbag and dress pattern
she had purchased were gone.
Mob Long Thwarted.
# That the Frog as James was
known did not hang from the Hust
ler's arch at Ninth and Commercial
streets Wednesday night was due tc
the 4c1eyerness OF Chief OF Police Egan
and Sheriff Davis in getting him GU,
of the city. The departure Of the
I5northbound Illinois Central train al
| MISS NGToN GETS DIVORCE
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