Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-05
TWO NEGROES
ARE LYNCHED
NEAR CAIRO
BLOoDHoUNDS TRAIL BLACK
MEN WHO KILL FARMER AND
BOTH SLAYERS ARE HANGED;
ONE NEGRO IDENTIFIED.

Cairo, ILL.,, July 4.-Mississippl
county, Missouri, across the river
| from Cairo, is in the throes of a race
war growing out of the killing OF a
white man, John Fox, by two negroes,
on Saturday.
Fox, farmer in the county, about
six miles from Charleston, the county
seat, came into the city to sell wheat
and two Tennessee negroes, said to be
James Glade anad Grant Bristol,
watched his actions and inquired
where Fox lived and how he got home,
without arousing any suspicious. The
negroes went out on the road ahead
of Fox, thinking he had received con-
siderable money for the wheat, and
waylaid him about 8 o'clock in the
evening on desolate part OF the
road.
Dying Man Describes Attack.
First they demanded money of Fox,
but he tried to explain he had not re.
ceived money for his wheat. The ne
groes would accept no explanation
whatever, and after repeated demands,
which Fox refused, one negro, Glade,
drew a revolver and shot Fox. The
negroes then searched Fox and got
about Sc. They then escaped through
the woods.
In about an hour, another man came
along the same road and saw Fox and
though Fox was very weak, he told
him what had occurred. This man hur-
ried to Charleston, where he notified
Sheriff Cupp Immediately. The sheriff
summoned posse of deputies and
took his two bloodhounds, which
aided in running down Anna Pelly's
assailants at Cairo last November, and
started in pursuit.
At about o'clock Sunday morning
the posse ran upon two negroes In a
barn asleep. They were taken to
Charleston, arriving there at about 9
o'clock.
Then men went about town and
summoned gang to demand the keys
of Sherig Cupp. He refused to give up
the keys or the prisoners and the mob
went to work to get the men out OF
Jail, filing the bars.
| After about three hours of hard
work. the mob was successful and the
negroes secured Bristol was then
taken out and hanged in the court
house yard, while the entire popula-
ton of men, women and children
cheered.
Then the mob took Glade to Fox,
who was still alive, and Fox ldenti-
fed him as one of his assailants, short
" before drawing his last breath. The
mob of five hundred then hustled
Glade back to Charleston and hanged
him on telegraph pole near Iron
Mountain depot.
Before lynching him, word came
that Fox had died and some women in
the crowd yelled burn him." Others
took up the cry, but cooler heads
thought he should go the same way
as his partner, so accordingly the
rope was tied around his neck by
boy and he was hanged.
The mob was then in the heat OF ex-
element Men hearing the word for
miles around, began driving in, hoping
to witness the scene. The same men
took up the cry of 'send over to Cairo
and you'll have enough men to lynch
every niger in Missouri" But as
evening drew on the leaders left for
their homes and there were no signs
of further violence.
Coroner Ogilvie then had the bodies
cut down and took charge of the In
quest. At the same time the inquest
over Fox will. be held. More than a
hundred persons spent the night at