The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-12
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Nppll0utu lIOlu oiS' Nh''
Illinois Central train at 7:45 was we'll
timed to tho carrying out OF thclr
plans,
AZ that hour scarcely n score Of men
were about the station. He was
hustled into the patrol wagon and the
wagon was dashiug up Twelfth street
before the watchers realized what mad
happened. They started on run alter
il.
Determined Pursuers.
Sheriff Davis and Deputy Fuller had
arranged to have the train stopped AT
Fourteenth street. The wagon and tram
reached Fourteenth street at the same
time The trainmcn were on the steps
ready to assist Chief Egan and his men,
but the wagon had distauced the pur,
suers and James was hurried on board
and the train pulled out ms the hrst pur,
sucrs arrived, Before the rear lights ot
the train were ont of sight dozen men
had hurried up to the telephones on the
second floor of the freight house ncaroy
and were calling Mounds and Anna. Ono
of the men called "a friend AT Mounds
and urged him TO notify people at
Anna that the negro was on the
train.
When connection with Anna WAS OBJ
taincd "A man there was told TO organ
ize mob to take James from the train.
Sheriff Forewamed.
Sheriff Davis and his men ieft the
train at Cairo Junction. The dcstna-
ton of the sheriff and his prisoner was
supposed TO be Murfreesboro, but
telegram from Anna Informed hlm lhat
mob was gathering mt Anna ana ne
left the train at Dongola and drove IN
the direction of Mill Creek, on the MO
bile & Ohio railroad.
: crowd of several hundred was AZ tue
depot at Anna, the former home OF MISS
Pellev. when the train reached there,
but no attempt was made 10 search the
train for the negro.
When the mob began 10 gather IN
front of the Cairo police station after
the negro had been taken away, most
of tho crowd refused 10 believe that
tho negro was not there.
Two men were selected 10 look through
the station cells They were told they
could not do so until Chief Bgan re,
turned. When Chief Egan returned,
Joe Pclley. brother of the murdered
Girl. made his way TO the chief and SAID: :
Chief, | am brother of the girl !
want 10 look through tho cells.
Pcllev and another man were per
mittcd TO 90 through. While they
were searching the mob outside made a
rush into the police station. Cher Egau
and his men made stand at inc door
of the cell and stopped the first rush
there
Hiding i'll the Woods.
After leaving the train. the shcrh
his deputy and the prisoner Ind 10 the
woods near karnak, twenty seven miles
from Cairo. 4 train passed through
Karnak a little later and the conductor
ltelcpraphcd back from the next station
that he had seen the deputy and the
bandcuffcd negro beside the railroad
track a mnc beyond KaTuak.
When a telegram was received oN the
brothers OF Miss Pcllev that the trio
were in the woods, box car train was
seized by a mob of 2.200 men, who
rode in III TO Karnak. Soon the negro
was captured and brought bnck to Cairo.
Four arrests were made by the police
| here Tuesday night after SIX blood
hounds had led the police from the
alley where Miss Pelley met death, to a
negro shack,
A uegress named Green, tenant OF the
shack, and three negroes. VIII james
! Arthur Alexander and viii Thomas
were arrested and later all but james
! released.
Bloodhounds were tried on James
early Wednesday morning. and oNldcnct
pointed TO him. as he could not ac
count for his whereabouts at the time
! Miss Pclley was killed. The city iai
was stormcd several times Wednesday
and Wednesday evening James was bur
red from the city.