Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-13
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4 TO pray. The mob suddenly subsidized
and short religious service for the
benefit of Selzner's soul was held, aft
er which he was strung up, the rope
being placed over telegraph pole at
Twenty-first and Washington streets.
4 Salzner was born and raised here,
\ being the son of William Salzner,
hide and wool buyer. Salzner had been
married about two years 1t was
known that he had had trouble with
feis wife and it is said gave her no
money for food for herself and two
small babies.
4 One night last July Mrs. salzner
was found at her home with her. skull
II fractured and bloody ak was found
& under the bed. The two babies were
u playing in the blood Salzner had been
s9seen by neighbors about the house
NJ early in the evening and after the
lgs crime was discovered Salzner was
b found at the home of his mother,
Il 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 enough to accuse her husband
of the crime. The public was incens-
ed against him, and while a part Of
the mob was securing the city for the
negro Alexander, time 4lung heavy on
the hands of the balance of the mob
and when some one suggested Salzner
the mob rushed for the county jail,
where the man wanted was held in q
steel cage.
The sheriff and his crowd of depu-
Z ties were pushed aside, and the bat
tering down of the door of the cage
was at once begun with a sledge ham.
&mer that had been secured. i,
Lynching Of James.
James was hung to the arch st
Eighth and commercial streets Won
en- were present and were the first to
pull the rope. When it broke the fren-
~ of the mob was uncontrolloble, and
they fired volley after volley into his
1 body, shooting him to pieces. The mob
4 then dragged the body over the
IA streets for more than a mile to TWEEN
ty-Sixth and Elm streets, in an alley,
and burned it where the murder was
n, committed
At least 10000 people witnessed the
II 1ynching. James was found with Sher-
4 iff Davis between Remark, ILL.,, and Bel
KNAPP, by the Cairo crowd, who went
n up in the afternoon. The crowd over.
d powered the officers and took the ne
gro from them, and after a conference
4 1t was decided to bring the negro back
to this city and lynch him here.
The feeling against the negro, which
a had begun to die down, was renewed
4 by the funeral of the girl here and at
Anna yesterday.
Large crowds attended the local SER
a vices and several hundred boarded the
funeral train which conveyed the
3 corpse to Anna, where the burial took
place. Many of the excursionists re-
manned in the latter town, hoping the
y negro would be captured from Sheriff
n Davis in that vicinity.
1t soon became evident, however,
d that the sheriff had partially doubled
n back on his tracks.
81 A mob of about thousand went up
to help find tbs negro, and when they
y arrived in Cairo they were met by a
W mob of about 5000 more. They
marched direct to the arch, sweeping
b everything before them.
ID Sheriff Davis pleaded for the life Of
the negro but without avail, and when
4 Cairo was reached Davis was taken in
charge by a part of the mob, while the
~ rest rushed the negro rapidly to the
III gcene of action The mob after the
1y negro was SO large that it covered the
y entire country from Karnak to Vienna,
H., distance of about sixteen miles.
n When found by the mob the negro
81 was handcuffed between the two Off
q GERS and they were lying on the bank
'A of creek. All three were SO weak
NJ from hunger and exposure that they
III were not able to make much resist.
10 ance.
u The sheriff last night said that he
regretted the lynching and that he
made every effort In his power to pre-
vent 1T, but the crowd was SO large
that he could do nothing.
story of the PelIey Murder.
Miss Policy was. murdered Monday
evening, but her body was not found
until Tuesday morning. 1t was dis
covered then by some children, lying
mutilated and half naked in an alley
q near her home. There was a gag in
her mouth, her clothing had been tori
to shreds, and there were marks or
her body indicating that she had
made a desperate struggle for her life
and honor.
AS soon as the news of the crime
spread the whole town was aroused
4 The police went to work on the case
energetically, and one of their frs
steps was to secure two bloodhounds
which they put on the trail leading
from the scene where the body was
found. The dogs went Immediately Il