The Sentinel=record., 1910-02-19
MILITIA IS
 IN CONTROL NEGRO PRISONER CAIRO MOB WANTED IS GIVEN A 14-YEAR
 SENTENCE IN PEN
Indictment and Sentence Took Less Than an Hour of the Courts Time When lt Was Brought
 Up for Trial.

Cairo III. Feb 1S.-With three companies of militia guarding the court house and jail. under direct su- pervision of Adjutant General Frank ] s. Dickson, of Springfield, Il.. this city settled down tonigh. to complete quiet after a strenuous twentyfour hours. and the authorities believe they have the situation well in hand
 There are may scattered groups of men about the streets and in the vi- cinity of the iajl bat no crowd is al- lowed to couerogate.
 Threats have been made against Sheriff Fed D. Nellis for the killing of Alexander Halliday early this morning by his deputies and the wounding of four others in battling 1 back the mob that attempted to lynch a negro purse snatChor, but presence of the soldiers is havlng a s8Usfactirv effec in preventing further Jemonstra tions
 A third company was asked by the sherin this afternoon and Company NJ, of Champaign, H., was ordered out and arrived here at 6.3o o'clock
 JohnPratt, the negro the mob in tended 10 lynch and who was given an indetermiuate sentence of not more than fourteen years in the Chester penitentiary on each of two charges Of robbery this afternoon, will ba taken secretly to the prison - , o'clock to- morrow with twelve other convicted prisonersin a special train His re- moval. it is believed will remove the last apprehension of another assault on the ian
 Lincoln Wilson, arrested as a sus- pected comp nion of Pratt was re- leased tonight The grand jury fail. led to return an indictment against him
 Praus indictment and sentence took less than a half hour this afternoon. iAt 3 o'clock the ndiqtment was re- turned and ten minutes later he plead ed guilty and was sentenced by Cir cult Judge William Butler
 A searching investigation of the at tack on the jail this morning when Halliday was killed was ordered this afternoon by Judge Butler in a charge to the grand jury immediately after the disposal of the cases of the two negroes. No action was taken this af- ternoon but the affair will be taken .up when the jury recouyeues tomor- row.
 Judge Buffers instructions tA the grand jury were in substance a le. mand that the dio.ers be brought to justice and made to stand trial for rioting. a felony
 This sort of procedure must be stopped" he said, Jaw that is not en. forced ceases to be law
 There have been five murders in Cairo since November II, when we had another occurrence of mob vo- lence. These crimes show that mob law is no deterrent to crime and it is your duty to see that mob law ceases to be-"
 Coroner James McMauus has as yet called no inquest in the nilling of Halliday He said tonight he intends to go slowly in his investigation Hal lidays body has been taken to the home of a brother Parker Halliday, with the consent of the coroner.
 Sharf NolHs was in close touch with Governor Deneen by long dis tarce telephone all day. and said to- night that his course had been com mended by the governor X stray shot fired by a member in the mob was the direct cause of the volley from tue deputies guarding the jail that laid several of us members low ac- cording 10 Sheriff Nellis version of the attack
 "I was standing on the front porch of the court house. parleving with he mob which was demanding that