The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-11-20
BAYONETS SUPERSEDE TORCH
Military Delivers Cairo From
Hand of Anarchy.
One NEGRO is SAVED BY SOLDIERS
Negro Murderer of Miss Annie Pellev
and White Wife Murderer Meet
Summary Punishment at
Hands of Angry Citizens.

Hands of Angry Citizens.
Cairo, Ill.-With Arthur Alexan-
der, last of the persons arrested in
connection with the murder here of
Miss Pelley, safely out Of town and
some $50 members of the Fourth
Regiment of the Illinois militia on
guard in the streets and about the
Jail, the mob spirit that has held
Cairo for four days was quelled.
4 No crowds were allowed to gather
IN any part of the city and every
known danger point was occupied by
troops. Bayonets ruled where "a
hours before the rope, the torch and
the pistol had been in evidence.
Alexander, who was reported to
have been implicated in the murder
Of Miss Pelley by the dying state
ment Of "Froggy' James, one of the
victims of the mob, was sent to an
unannounced point north of Cairo.
He was escorted from the Jail in po-
liceman's clothing to special train
on the Illinois Central railroad by
seven companies Of militia, two of
which, were assigned to the duty of
guarding the train.
There were jeers and defiance for
the militia from the crowd that wit
messed the departure.
Will (Froggy) James, a negro,
confessed murderer Of Annie Pelley,
was hanged, riddled with bullets and
burned after a thousand men had
chased Sheriff Davis and the negro
| for twenty-four hours
Henry Salzner, white man, and
photographer by trade, who killed
his wife last July with an axe, was
taken out of the county jail by the
mob and hanged to telegraph pole
and his body riddled with bullets
This lynching following closely that
of Will James, negro, earlier in the
evening.
The mob gave Salzner a chance to
confess after the rope was around
his neck but in his fright he could
only humble that his sisters did the
killing.
VIII James has been in Cairo off
and on for several years. He came
here from the south. He said be-
fore being lynched that an assault
had been committed on the girl be-
fore she was murdered and that Ar
thur Alexander helped him with the
crime.
James was lynced in the most
prominent square of the city at
Eighth and Commercial streets.
Women present were told to pull
the rope. When it broke the frenzy
of the mob was uncomfortable anG
they fired volley after volley into his
body, shooting him to pieces. The
mob then dragged the body over the
streets for more than a mile to
Twenty-SiXth and Elm streets in an
alley and burned it where the murder
was committed.
At least 10000 people witnessed
the lynching.
The mob after the negro was so
large that it covered the entire coun-
try from Karnak to Vienna, ILL.,, a
distance Of about l miles. When
found by the mob, The negro was
handcuffed between officers and they
were lying on the bank of a creek.
All three were so weak from hunger
and expsure, that they were not able
to make much resistance.
Miss Pelley was an orphan, 20
years old. Her home was formerly
at Anna, Ill. For two years she has
made her home with her sister, Mrs.
John Coffman, of Cairo. She was
employed as a salesgirl
She left the store at o'clock and
walked with her chum, Ella Dolan,
as far as Miss Dolan's home
The finding Of the handle of her
in the front yard of the
residence of Harry Lipe, three
doors from the Hoffman house, in
dicates that this was where she was
first attacked. 1t is supposed that
when she was confronted she struck
the man with her umbrella and tho
handle flew into the yard
1t is believed that the man trust
the gag into her mouth and carried
her back to Elm street and half a
block in the alley.
Marks on the ground showed that
she was dragged Is feet to the spot
where she was strangled to death.
Her fearfully bruised and lacerated
throat and face show that she fought
TIL alley is very narrow, barely
wide enough for a wagon to pass
through and is little used. 1t was :
o'clock the next morning before tho
body was found.
Miss Pelley's clothing was almost
torn from her body. The
leep prints Of the fingers that had
hrottled her, were on her throat.
Beside her was her hat and her
broken umbrella. Not far away was
ound her book of street car tickets.
some post cards she had been car
ying in her hand were torn In two.