The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-11-18
WILL JAMES (NEeRo), HENRY
sALzNER (WHITE) ARE THE
VICTIMS.
BLACK MANS BODY BURNED
Mob Breaks Into Jail After Midnight,
Strings Up Wlfe-Murderer-Troops
Are Ordered to Cairo by the
Governor.

to have implicated Arthur Alexander
In his double crime, paid the full pen.
atty for his awful crime lasa night
when he was first strung up TO the
steel arch at Eighth and Commercial
streets and in the full glare of a hun
dred electric lights and then shot to
death because the rope which sus-
pended him in the air broke.
Burn James Body.
Taking the dead negro to the scene
Of the crime, a mile distant from the
arch, at Twenty-siNth and Elm streets,
the crowd then made a huge bonfire
and, throwing the buIIet-ridden body
on top. the torch was applied. In his
confession James is. said to have made
the statement that Alexander had the
band ring and necklace belonging to
Miss Pelley.
An immense crowd OF people we're
at the Union station to- see the train
arrive. The negro was taken from
the train at Tenth street and the
crowd. quickly took him over to the
corner OF Eighth and Commercial
streets to- string him up on the steel
arch that spans the most important
corner in che city. AS the krowd ap-
preached the arch hundred pistols
volleyed In the air. While arrange
ments were being made to- hang him
some one climbed up on the arch and
turned ON the electric lights.
Rope Is Adjusted.
Time uf fnn
ed up above the heads of the crowd
In order that they might see him A
rope was sec1red and a man climbed
upon the arch and lowered IL so that
the moose could be put around the
negro's neck. While this was going
on there was. a steady roar thac could
be heard a block away and above the
sound were the cries. Burn him.. burn
him, burn him." The first rope
broke. Then they dragged the negro
uD Eighth street toward the levee
and shot him 90 death in the middle
Of the block, then dragged the body
up TO Ohio street and up to Tenth and
getting a ladder for kindling wood
they took the negro over tor Wash
ington avenue, and up the street
Before he was strung up he was
given chance to confess and he ad-
mitted the crime, duplicating Arthur
Alexander, one Of the suspects arrest
ed Tuesday.
Fully five Thousand people, including
number of women and children,
witnessed the shooting of James.
Nearly every nan was armed and all
tried to get bullet in him. No resist
ance whatever was made by the po-
lice, as such would have been useless.
Lynch White Man.
After tne mob had burned James to
crisp they forced an entrance into
the county jafl to get q criminal out
named Henry Salzner, charged with
wife murder
The mob searched for Jailer Ed
ward Abernathie TO get the keys of
the cells from him, but he had gone
to a hiding place, hoping the mob
would not force an entrance without
the keys.
But the mob hammered and
knocked On Salzner's cell until he
was extricated and then, amid the
cheers of 1000. he was taken to the
corner and given a hearing. Salzner
accused his two sisters of being the
ones who killed his wife but his
statements were weak He. begged of
the mob not to take his life, but to no
avail He was given a few minutes
in which to pray and was then al
lowed time to make confession,
which he did not do. He was then
hung to telegraph pole, a block from
the courthouse. The mob fired sew
eral shots into his body.
Cairo. Ill.,, Nov. 13.--With Arthur
Alexander the last of the persons ar
rested In connection with the murder
here Monday last, of Miss Annie Pei
ley, safely out of town, and some $50
members of the Fourth regiment of
the Illinois National Guard in the,
streets and about the Jail, the mob
spirit that has held Cairo for four.
days has been quelied.
No crowds were allowed to gather
in any part of the city and every
known danger pufnt Is occupied now
by troops. All saloons have been
closed by order of Gov. Deneen.
Alexander, who was implicated in
the murder of Miss Pelley by the dy-
ing statement of James, the confessed
murderer, one of the victims of the
mob, was rushed to Champaign and
lodged in Jail there according to a
message received by Sheriff Davis.
The negro was escorted from the
jail to special train on the Illinois
Central railroad by a heavy force OF
militia, two companies of which were
assigned TO the duty Of guarding the
train.
Just what steps win be taken to
bring those implicated In the uprising
to trial has not been determined.
Gen. Weston Retires.
San Erancisc0 Nov 10 AR..- a.