The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-13
STATE Of ILLINOIS
 RULES MOB MAD CITY

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 through the woods until the water l drove us to the railroad tracks. We | entered c house to rest. but were | warned by . citizen of Belknap. We
 lay down In some tall weeds to con ceal ourselves. but In . few minutes two scouting parties passed us. one of
 whom was the Karnak postmaster.
 carrying . gun. The next party es- I pied us.
 T told these men that James was in l my ofiicial custody, but the man on | the stump fired several shots in the air and the crowd began to gather. One of the party was Mir. Logan, of
 Cairo. appealed to him to see that no violence was committed.
 | He assured me that all they asked l was that James be taken back to Cairo | ang given a speedy trial. I promised | them that this was to be done, and 1 they then started toward the station some one had set fire to the house in | which we had taken refuge, and as we l passed 1t there was cries of Burn him!
 While waiting for the train south. was asked to pick. six men to question James. This coriimittee received no l answer from James, except not guilty. "In the train seated myself beside l the prisoner but as we reached Tenth 1 street in Cairo, some one threw 8 | rope around his neck. l at once took 1t on and was then struck several
 blows by. members of the party. 9th
 CTS drasSed James from the train' \ several members of the mob pushing me to one side. heard no confession from James and nothing to indicate that he had implicated Alexander in the tragedy"
 The entire 9th Regiment of the | Illinois National Guard was on duty tonight Besides the two companies that accompanied Alexander North. there were nine commands in the city. | Headquarters were established In the I armory. the companies erecting pup tents in the court house yard.
 Local politics was generally blamed for failure of the courts to convict and in some instances there were open charges that the peace officers here I had long been lax in their activities. l Mayor Parsons asserted that 1t had been . strain on the city's finances 1 to support its police force of fourteen men and two officers. and that police had mot received the support of public
 opinion that they deserved. He In. stanced a case In which policeman | had been Killed by man he was att tempting to arrest. yet the slayer had escaped punishment. He acknowledged ! that politics had played a part in many cases.
 The mob spirit appears broken. The | talk on the streets today was not that of immediate revenge on the suspect ed Iawbreakers as 1t had been since
 Tuesday. The. word was walt till the soldiers go."
 | <S-a rk Hat l portion of it which slept. more or less dazed from the events of the night.
 but the sober after thought of the po- sition in which the community had been placed before the country at large had not yet begun to manifest itself. | For this reason the authorities were prep4red for a renewal of trouble to- night. Last nights mob numbered many prominent citizens and few at-
 tempted to conceal their Identity. Police Dupe the Msh.
 Alexander was lodged in the jail only after the police had duped the mob by dressing him in a policeman's uniform and rushing him about the 1 city, Catherine Cooper. negress. whom James and Alexander visi- | ted the night of the murder, her | twelve year-old son. and Lovey Green, another negress. who are said to have washed the bioodstains from James clothing were under arrest yesterday 1 but because of the lack of evidence l against them they were released when word came that James had been cap tnred hys the sInpb. . sEriend dso immediate' Iiy aide dthem to leave town.
 The fact that the mob wrecked sum | mary vengeance on white man as well as upon the negro James is taken | by the negroes here as proof that law 1 abiding members of their race have
 no race war to fear.
 salzner's body was claimed by his 1 father. Some difnculty was exper- fenced in rescuing Saizner's body from the mob last night, some of the lynch CTS asserting that 1t should be burned as was that of James. Alderman Burke, who is an undertaken. finally prevailed upon the crowd to allow him to take charge of the body.
 Of James body practically nothing remained. The head remained on the pole where 1t was impaled last night until long after daylight Not an un- dertaker in the city would take charge of it and finally the city's dead wagon was sent to the place. It is supposed that 1t was buried on the city dump.
 Marbid Crowds Gather.
 Before the head was disposed of. thousands of morbidly curious people swarmed about the neighborhood. A goodiy portion of this crowd was com posed of women and children. both white and coiored. Youngsters who were too small to see easily were rais- ed above the heads of the crowds by their parents. The crowd was so dense that the dead wagon had difn- culty in forcing it's way through.
 Troops appeared on the streets of the city within a few hours after the To- cal authorities had appealed to Gov ernor Deneen. The Cairo militia. com panv K, of the 4th Regiment. hastily mobilized. was on duty shortly after the second lynching had taken place.
 The Carbondale organization, Com many c. of the same regiment, arriy- cd at daybreak. At noon a special train brought Company c. from Ening- ham and portions of other commands. Before dark tonight 1t was expected that fully 400 militia would be cor doned about the jail.
 The coroner's jury today held that James and Salzner came to their death at the hands of unknown persons.
 VIII Remove Alexander.
 Kankakee, H., Nov. 12.-Arthur Alexander, accomplice of Will James, the self confessed slayer of Miss An .nie Peliey. will be brought to Kanka- ,w.a So.saf fe keening according to ar